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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Well, I'm pretty darn sure that knives, swimming pools and cars do not fall under firearm legislation, but if you can show otherwise I'd be happy if you could correct me.
Pro-gun people can walk around touting that "bans" on guns are hypocritical because if you ban one thing that can kill people, you have to ban all things that kill people.
But if an anti-gun person says that if you drop bans on one type of weapon, it would be hypocritical to be for a ban of another type of weapon - that's off limits because it falls under the "explosive ordinance"?!?
There needs to be a line drawn as to what level of weapon the general populace will have access to. You can't say "if the line is that people can't have handguns, it's a slippery slope to swimming pools and baseball bats" while saying "rocket launchers don't count because they fall under a different ordinance".
I think most reasonable people are for a line somewhere. The argument that if we ban weapons that kill people we would then have to ban cars and swimming pools is horribly flawed in that it is arguing for no ban at all. So I get my rocket launcher. W00t!
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Ah, no you don't get your rocket launcher.
Your post makes absolutely no sense. There HAS been a line drawn as to what kind of weapons someone can own. A rocket launcher is not part of it.
And the only reason I said that cars, knives, etc, etc can kill people too, was because of what someone mentioned about people who go crazy and want to kill someone, and they own a gun....that guns should be banned to prevent them from using the gun to kill someone in their insanity. The point is that if someone goes insane, and wants to kill someone, he'll use any tool at his disposal.