"But why not outlaw guns that are specifically designed to kill as many humans as possible? What useful purpose do they serve?"
I asked a guy that same question during a break in the fighting in 1972. He asked me if I'd ever been black man in the South (I'm a white Westerner) facing down half a dozen kluxers with lynching on the brain. I saw his point. It is not up to me to tell a man what means he should be permitted use to defend himself and his family.
My wife has arthritis in her hands and cannot handle a 12 gauge shotgun or even a.38 pistol without pain. She can however fire an AR-15 comfortably. Sarah Brady and her fellow travelers would forbid her from owning that gun because it is "scary" and "only designed to kill people." As far as I am concerned their desire to leave my wife defenseless against criminals makes them all accessories before the fact to any crime that may be commited against her becasue she is disarmed. There is reason these thoughtless and evil laws are called "victim disarmament".
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"But why not outlaw guns that are specifically designed to kill as many humans as possible? What useful purpose do they serve?"
.38 pistol without pain. She can however fire an AR-15 comfortably. Sarah Brady and her fellow travelers would forbid her from owning that gun because it is "scary" and "only designed to kill people." As far as I am concerned their desire to leave my wife defenseless against criminals makes them all accessories before the fact to any crime that may be commited against her becasue she is disarmed. There is reason these thoughtless and evil laws are called "victim disarmament".
I asked a guy that same question during a break in the fighting in 1972. He asked me if I'd ever been black man in the South (I'm a white Westerner) facing down half a dozen kluxers with lynching on the brain. I saw his point. It is not up to me to tell a man what means he should be permitted use to defend himself and his family.
My wife has arthritis in her hands and cannot handle a 12 gauge shotgun or even a
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