Re: Re: Gun Insurance
By: Tracker1 to Dumas Walker on Thu Jul 07 2022 01:36 pm
> On 6/24/22 14:10, Dumas Walker wrote:
> >
> > Exactly. I may not have worded it exactly right. I think they
> > believe that law abiding citizens having guns means there are more
> > guns out there for law breaking persons to have access to
> > (whilebreaking the law). Their belief is that we should be willing
> > to give up our guns, or at least have ours all registered, tracked,
> > and restricted (as to what we can own) so that criminals cannot get
> > their hands on them. <rollseyes>
>
> Realistically, if they *REALLY* wanted to cut down on gun violence,
> they'd be trying to outlaw handguns, not rifles (AR-15 etc) to begin
> with. The vast majority of gun violence and gun related crimes (armed
> robbery, etc) is done with a handgun... but those aren't the ones that
> typically make the headlines and are exceedingly rare.
>
> Note: this is not an endorsement of the idea, just pointing out the
> ignorance and hypocrisy.
> --
> Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
>
Even in the orgianl language of the NFA act of 1934, handguns were intended to
be banned. The problem was even most folk who say they are anti-gun
wouldn't mind owning a handgun to be kept by their bed. An analogy is razor
blades are safer than axes even though it's easier to hide a razor blade and
they can do their of damage if they slice a major artery.
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