I am used to taking flack from both sides, as I support RKBA and also know idiots who shouldn't have guns, regardless of what the Constitution or anything else says. I think a discussion is needed but the extremes of neither side are really looking at the whole picture
As I said, I like guns, I have guns, I have no ethical problems with using lethal force in self defense or the carrying of guns by people who have demonstrated the knowledge skills and abilities that someone carrying a lethal weapon in public should be required to possesses.
I also have no problem with using the full force of the State to remove guns from and keep them from people who shouldn't have them and understand why people who hate them do so.
to me the point of stasis is how much of the problem is the technical capabilities of "modern" firearms and how much is the dire lack of mental health (and screening and training of potential gun users). Reflexively defending all firearms ownership by nearly anyone, while a valid philosophical stance, does almost as little good as wanting to ban them all and melt them down.
And I think that if the control folks used the right nomenclature it would help the discussion along. Both because if they want to ban or more tightly regulate something they should be clear - for the purposes of their own objectives (with which I agree - the objectives that is but not the methodology-, making it as rare as possible for someone to do what mass shooters do) and so that any legislation actually addresses the issue; otherwise all they do is get cosmetic features banned which does NOTHING to lower MY chances of being killed by a shooter. Also it's almost impossible to NOT be contemptuous of someone who is so factually in error that one assumes they are either willfully ignorant or dishonest, and again, that's where communication breaks down.
I don't have nor do I really care for any semi automatic rifles and my handguns are all revolvers, my 300 win mag is a bolt action (not counting a 10/22) and my next one will be a lever gun... No real emotional involvement so ......personally, the day I can't defend myself with 6 is the day Darwin can damned well take my ass away
Anyway, thanks. A always appreciate your posts, too.
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