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Originally Posted by Hans Landa
Because in America... Freedom trumps everything. Having whatever means possible to defend yourself against someone who may try to take your life is extremely important.
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Freedom from having a guy barge into a movie theatre and randomly start shooting people also seems like it would be a pretty nice thing to have. I think that limiting people's ability to purchase weapons which only have the sole purpose of killing other people is a good thing and actually goes towards the prevention aspect of preserving life.
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Originally Posted by Hans Landa
It's not just about 'the gun' or having a gun. For some, who feel the left is slowly eroding away the true definition of freedom (freedom from regulation, freedom from excessive government control, etc), being allowed to own a gun is more of a symbol than anything else.
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A symbol that can hold 100 rounds of murdering lead which has the only purpose of killing people. A gun isn't a symbol, a gun like the one used is an object that has the only purpose of killing other people. That is something that no one in a society should own.
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Being a right-winger myself, I agree with this, despite being a Canadian who's never owned or fired a gun, I can certainly appreciate how important they are as a symbol to American freedom in the eyes of true patriots (lefties, in my opinion, are anti-patriots).
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What does that mean, someone who has a different political ideology is less of a patriot than you are - how do you even quantify patriotic views? I consider myself fiscally conservative and socially liberal, am I quasi-patriotic?
Actually this is a stupid statement which sounds more like something that I would hear on mid-afternoon QR770 call in programs than anything else
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If you think having those 3 guns is unnecessary, I'm interested to read your rant on what YouTube's FPSRussia (some kid from Georgia who, allegedly, fakes a Russian accent and is almost as popular as Lady Gaga) owns and has access to. Watching through his videos must be shocking to some of the biggest gun fans. With the exception of nukes, that guy has legally got his hands on just about every piece of firepower you can dream up.
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I am confused as to how relevant this comment is to well anything.
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To let the government decide, for other people, what is necessary or unnecessary, with respect to guns, because they 'fail to see why civilians would need a particular weapon' would just leave an argument open for the government 'failing to see why civilians needs more than 90hp in their cars' among a million other examples of support of more and more government control over our lives in the name of treating grown adults like children.
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God damn I hate the slippery slope argument. Such a stupid argument with little thought put into it. Seriously give me one good reason that someone would need to have an assault rifle at all, let alone one with a 100 round magazine.
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Originally Posted by Hans Landa
7 Billion People on this planet. If you spend your leisure time among them, no amount of government control is going to afford you any guarantees in life. That's reality. We all live in it.
Anyways... I could type all day, but I can't articulate anything better than this solid American:
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The entire argument again seems to be the slippery slope argument that banning handguns leads to society falling apart or something about how freedom of thought would be lost or something like that. It is about banning something that is continually used in mass murder and terror situations seems to be a good idea, especially when it isn't a revolutionary army, it is some nutbar who has planning going into a theatre and murdering innocent people.
I am sure that if George Washington was transported to 2012 an assault rifle with a 100 round magazine wouldn't be what he was considering when that the line was introduced, it likely had more to do with preventing an invasion by the British.