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Originally Posted by Maritime Q-Scout
Unless you can understand that losing a right, not a priveledge but a right, is a big deal and one that is unfathomable to both a Canadian and American, then you'll miss a fundamental piece to the gun control debate.
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It's debatable at best that the right to own whatever and however many guns you want is actually a right at all. I don't think it's even debatable. I don't pretend to be any sort of Constitutional expert, but it doesn't say in there that an American citizen
can own any gun he wants.
As much as the loons in the NRA want to frame it like "they want to take our guns away...", it's not that. Some reasonable gun control (background checks, education, sanity) is infringing on a right that doesn't even exist, so nobody is "losing a right".
Sort of related... A gun seller in the States is getting death threats for selling a "Smart Gun" that ensures that only the owner can fire it. He's selling a
gun, ferchrissakes, and the gun nuts are against him even doing that.
It's like a car fanatic threatening to kill a dealer because he's selling a car with an automatic transmission. This is the kind of people they are dealing with. It may be (and sure looks like it) impossible, but they will just have to shove it down their throats eventually. You can't deal with someone like this rationally.