AZDuck
New Fish
As an actual duck, I think you should be more pro strict gun control.The people arguing for guns always remind me of religious people. It's funny how all arguments sound the same when you've made up your mind first and come up with the argument second.
Just admit you love guns and that's all that matters.
I like guns just fine. Use them to shoot deer every season since I was a boy with both Dads in a blind. But, this has much less to do with "loving" guns, and much more to do with believing in liberty, and the governments desire to restrict my ability to protect myself from that same government.
It always amuses me that when you tell people (liberals mostly) you want guns to potentially defend yourself from jack booted government thugs, they look at you like you have two heads and are some kind of crazy domestic terrorist. Um, that is precisely what most of the guys on those bills we don't use anymore did. The redcoats were the ATF/FBI/whatever of their day. When what we now call patriots took up arms against them, because of a fundamental belief in liberty and self governance, they were committing domestic terrorism. Thank God they got to that arsenal in Lexington before the redcoats, or the revolution would have been over before it started. The limeys realized, correctly, they better steal the weapons first. The patriots realized, correctly, the only way to defend yourself in any meaningful way was to have them.
Do I think any of this happens in my lifetime? No, at least I certainly hope not. But, I believe in gun rights because I have no idea what might happen in a hundred years, and I want your great grandkids and any of my illegitimate grandkids to at least have to means to defend themselves and liberty from an overzealous government, or a common intruder, or a fucking Skynet activated robot army. Also, venison tastes good and everyone should shoot a deer and figure this out at least once in their life.
There's a lot here I agree with.
My view is that the onus is on advocates of firearm ownership to demonstrate how they can make it reasonably safe. I don't think it is acceptable for us to have our churches, schools and movie theaters shot up on the regular because 2d Amendment worshippers refuse to countenance any restrictions on their fetish.
At the same time, I also think a lot of pro-gun-control liberals are FS because they want to ban guns that are scary-looking rather than take a more reasonable approach.
I think that some sort of mandatory training and licensing, along with serial number registration could enable the government to better regulate the firearm market without impinging on anyone's 2d Amendment liberties, and that regime could also filter out many, if not most of the yahoos who want to shoot up a movie theater or a kindergarten. Will mass-shootings still happen? Yes, but maybe not every 6 weeks or so. It would be progress. Progress is good.
And I like my gun, so I'd like to keep it.
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