Which, if you think about it, is one of the scariest realities of the time we live in: That a GUN OWNER, any gun owner, is willing to consider giving up ANY right, especially after what we've seen under the tyrant scumbag in the White House, and especially after what we've seen here in Massachusetts over the course of the last 20-plus years of liberal pukes trying to advance their pansy-ass agenda on legal, LAW ABIDING US citizens.
The fact that anyone joins this forum under the guise of being a "gun owner", and proceeds to ask the rest of us "Excuse me, guys and gals, but how much more will you accept? How much more KY can we apply to your already scorched 2nd Amendment rectum?"..
Tha fact that someone like the OP actually joins this forum, and then asks (apparently) in sincerity "How much more shredding of the basic rights of your land are you and your fellow bitter-clingers willing to ACCEPT??" is probably, if you really REALLY stop and think about it, proof that the 2nd Amendment truly is doomed. Hopefully not in MY lifetime, and I pray not in my kids' either, but I honestly believe my grandchildren are going to be defenseless, just the way all the sheep at Starbucks and all the other pansy Anti's want us to be. The country is f*cking doomed if a gun owner actually thinks, feels and believes what the OP thinks and believes. Jesus, I can't believe some of the stuff I hear coming from some peoples mouths. And a from GUN OWNERS' mouth?
Mother of God, save the USA.
Please.
I really don't think he meant any harm.
Who was the batshit crazy that shot up the Virginia Tech campus...killing I forget how many.
That dude was diagnosed as batshit, yet he still legally bought his Glock.
How crazy is that?
If we don't pitch in to help stop that bullshit, we are cutting our own throats, and if we actively INHIBIT efforts to stop that bullshit the blowback will be nasty.
Seung Hui-Cho. It's a concern for me, too, but I don't see any way to reasonably stop people like that until the mental health care system changes to make it easier for people who need care to get it.
Diagnosed as batshit means the same to me as "found guilty of future crimes", (snip).
Interesting way to look at things. I don't believe mental screening and owning a firearm are always diametrically opposed. I can tell you - there are people living out there who absolutely, positively should not be anywhere near a gun. I'm not saying ban guns, but if we can prevent them from acquiring them somehow (Constitutionally), I'm all for it.
I know from experience how crazy and illogical (or completely lacking in logic) people can get. And I don't mean on discussion forums like this - I mean real life monsters.
You are intelligent and reasonable. Some people simply do not have a healthy reasoning facility with which to function. They lack this and use rationalization rather than rationale to justify their warped acts of aggression.
These are the types that go out on rampages. I do not know the best way to stop them, but I know they absolutely should never be allowed near firearms, and we need to figure out how to prevent it from happening.
I realize it's impossible to stop all of it from happening all the time. But to throw our hands up and say "Why bother" would be tragic in itself.
If I could afford a nuclear weapon, had a place in Montana to keep it, and it was legal for someone to sell it to me, I'd buy one.
As long as Government's have them, citizen's should be allowed to have them.
You'd really want to own a nuke? What for? What tactical advantage could you think to gain from having one? I can see the scenario playing out:
*house owner hears thud in the night*
"Come out and show yourself, or I'll... I'll blow up Helena...?!"
Then you'd have Nuke Shops, where anyone could show their ID and pick up Little Big Boy for a weekend of... uh... radiation-induced funnery?
Wait, what??
Sorry, I just don't see how owning a nuke could benefit you or anyone, other than for a light show that would make certain areas uninhabitable for decades.
Putting firearms and nukes on par with one another is like thinking candles and rocket engines are both effective means to start a campfire. Nothing to be gained from owning a nuke, unless you are an anarchist who wants to destroy the government, I guess.
Notwithstanding, it might be "fun" to own one, in some weird, demented way, though.