What kind of gun shall we ban next, squirt guns? How about cap guns?
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Anonymous2007-01-11 23:04
"Nor is a gun's sole or primary purpose. The purpose of a gun is not limmited to shooting people. The fact that you give the implication that it is shows your incredible lack of understanding for other people and their lifestyles."
I understand that some people admire guns and like to target shoot and whatnot, but that isn't what the gun was made for and I seriously doubt that is why most people own guns.
"I didn't say the 2nd amendment was a 'basic human right', I said the right to keep and bear arms is a basic human right. There's a difference."
But it's not. I don't think you know what a basic human right is. Life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, privacy, etc, those are human rights, universal rights which the government cannot control. The right to bear arms is not a human right by any definition.
"The point is that imposing gun control on everyone infringes upon their personal freedom and rights, just like banning ice cream or registering baseball bats."
And in the same way not being able to yell bomb in an airport infringes on people's personal freedom and rights. You can't pick and choose, if you don't want gun control then you should argue against any speech control and any press control etc. etc.
"Since when was 'safeness' advanced beyond freedom as the national priority?"
Since guns became highly advanced and many times more deadly.
A fully automatic or a rocket launcher are also arms. Does that mean people should be able to own those with naught but a background check? I think Jefferson would have had something to say if the guns back then were self reloading and could be fired as fast as one could pull the trigger.