Bill Nance
Banned
I'm writing this post in hopes of getting some serious replies. (Smartasses feel free, but please preface your comment with: "I'm being a smartass")
As an AR owner, I'm as sick of the question: "why do you need a weapon like that?" as anyone else.
My standard answer is: "I don't have to justify my needs to you, it's my fundamental human right," that is, the right of self defense.
But, for instance, I was asked, by a gun owner, what was the possible purpose of a Barret .50 was. (with the obvious followup being why shouldn't it be banned) All I could say was that what the Hell, if someone wanted to spend a few grand on that weapon, what was the harm?
I can see the restrictions on nuclear weapons. I can even see restrictions on explosives. But beyond that, I don't see it. Full-Auto? -go for it. Put the ones that abuse away forever, but leave the rest of us the F**** alone.
So what do you folks say? (not what you'd LIKE to say) to this kind of argument? I'd like to have something better than "You can never trust government to be benign" which has always been my default argument against gun control.
Is there something more convincing? (especially to the young/naive) or am i just hoping for the impossible?
I can argue 2nd Amendment til I'm blue in the face. But what other logical,/historical argument can i make to otherwise skeptical folks that gun control is a bad idea? I believe that there ARE other arguments, but I haven't heard/read them clearly stated. Any suggestions? I'm all ears, because I have a lot of people I'd like to convince. I honestly believe that the facts are on our side. That the history of tyranny is so rampant that no government, even ours, can ever be trusted with absolute, un-rivaled power.
But I also know that this view is not necessarily shared by many in our society. How do we convince these people? Any thoughts? I'm all ears.
As an AR owner, I'm as sick of the question: "why do you need a weapon like that?" as anyone else.
My standard answer is: "I don't have to justify my needs to you, it's my fundamental human right," that is, the right of self defense.
But, for instance, I was asked, by a gun owner, what was the possible purpose of a Barret .50 was. (with the obvious followup being why shouldn't it be banned) All I could say was that what the Hell, if someone wanted to spend a few grand on that weapon, what was the harm?
I can see the restrictions on nuclear weapons. I can even see restrictions on explosives. But beyond that, I don't see it. Full-Auto? -go for it. Put the ones that abuse away forever, but leave the rest of us the F**** alone.
So what do you folks say? (not what you'd LIKE to say) to this kind of argument? I'd like to have something better than "You can never trust government to be benign" which has always been my default argument against gun control.
Is there something more convincing? (especially to the young/naive) or am i just hoping for the impossible?
I can argue 2nd Amendment til I'm blue in the face. But what other logical,/historical argument can i make to otherwise skeptical folks that gun control is a bad idea? I believe that there ARE other arguments, but I haven't heard/read them clearly stated. Any suggestions? I'm all ears, because I have a lot of people I'd like to convince. I honestly believe that the facts are on our side. That the history of tyranny is so rampant that no government, even ours, can ever be trusted with absolute, un-rivaled power.
But I also know that this view is not necessarily shared by many in our society. How do we convince these people? Any thoughts? I'm all ears.