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Originally Posted by HOOT
. There has to be a happy medium where people who want/need guns can get them but just not at the ease you can right now. You don't need to make laws so tight that people can't get guns to protect their home or family but why does someone need an assault rifle or 10 guns to do so?
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I agree that you could stop well short of a ban. Would banning assault rifles, severely restricting other semi- automatics, enforcing meaningful background checks and having a one month waiting period be too much of an infringement of people' rights?
But the quote above highlights one of the core problems. How can so many people fear for the safety of their home and family? Personally I would feel very unsafe if I had guns in the house. Of all the reasons I've heard for Canadians to defend guns and fight the registry for exams, personal safety never came into it.