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Nnanji -> RE: Las Vegas shooting unfolding now (10/10/2017 9:11:08 AM)
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ORIGINAL: igor2003
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ORIGINAL: WhoreMods
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: Greta75
In the context of my country. We ban cars that we feel are too dangerous. So many of those high powered cars in the US are not allowed on the road here.
We ban medicine or make it very difficult to get hold of without strict criteria and prescription from beyond just general practitioners. They may need specialists. Many off the shelves medicine in the US are not legal here off the shelves too.
Technically, we do apply everything fairly. Not attacking only guns.
The US bans cars that do not meet standards, or are too powerful for the American idiots with more money than brains.
Also you register cars, and require a license to own one.
It's strange how all of the second amendment fundamentalists who've used the daesh automotive attacks elsewhere to "prove" that gun control doesn't prevent deaths are cool with cars and trucks being regulated like that, but think it's appalling that attempts are made to do the same with firearms.
I'm not sure where you are that you need a license to own a car. Here you can own a hundred cars, even without a license. You only need a license if you intend to drive one on public streets.
As far as the difference in registering cars vs. guns . . . The last time there was a huge outcry of people, both private and in the government, who wanted to ban all cars was . . . NEVER. People aren't concerned about the eventual possibility of the government going door to door confiscating everyone's cars. HOWEVER, there are some people, both private and in the government, that have talked, and often even pushed, for all guns to be banned and confiscated. The registration of firearms would facilitate the gathering of firearms and the enforcement of such laws, and would take the guns from . . . all the people? NO . . . most criminals and gang bangers that have firearms don't have them registered, so they would still have theirs. And it would force many otherwise honest people to become criminals by not turning in their own unregistered firearms if they don't agree with the law.
I have three firearms. A .22 rifle, a 12 gauge pump shotgun, and a .357 revolver. None are registered, and it is not required for them to be registered in my state. I plan on keeping my firearms, both for protection, and for the eventual (though unlikely) possibility of needing them for hunting in a SHTF situation. Therefore they will remain unregistered.
Very valid points. Not to mention that driving is a priveledge while gun ownership is a right. Many people from Europe just can't understand that concept because they grew up where the only rights people have ever had are those "given" to them or "taken" from them by the government. They have trouble with the concept of freedom from the government. An easy example of that, with no disrespect to Greta, is how Greta is perfectly happy with the Government making all of those decisions for her. I find that Europeans have a little of that same desire for the comfort of being placed in a box.
Another thing to point to the truth of your statement is that I just recently read that Australia is having, yet again, an amnesty for people that didn't comply with its confiscation laws to come forward and comply now with no questions asked. What do you want to bet that Australia isn't having theses "amnesties" due to strictly law abiding citizens?
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