http://www.prometheusinstitute.net/opinion/joe61807.htm
Reevaluating Gun Control Laws
Support 50’s right to bear arms
Joe Holmes
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Reasonable restrictions are necessary. Waiting periods, though a minor inconvenience, allow for background checks and should help deter the possibility of committing a gun-crime in the heat of the moment. People with criminal records or histories of psychological problems should be prevented from owning a gun. Automatic weapons serve no reasonable purpose other than to kill mass numbers of people. These are reasonable laws to me. However, preventing me from carrying a gun in my car or on my person seems too restrictive. Believe me, I have no desire to kill someone…indeed, I desire no situation less. However, if some thug threatens my life, my family’s life, or any innocent person’s life, I believe I should have the right to protect myself and others. To restrict this ability is to take away my fundamental right to self protection and self preservation. When did this become such a crazy position?
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Sorry, but “reasonable restrictions” are NOT necessary. We have seen all to often of the “slippery slope”. Our rights are abridged and infringed in the name of “reasonableness”, “the children”, or some other clap trap. Why is that this non sense always winds up giving the gooferment more power? The gooferment is never given “less power”. Power is never taken back from the gooferment except in a bloody revolution.
Let’s take some of the “reasonable restrictions”:
(1) Waiting periods guarantee that you can’t react to a threat. You’re a woman. You’re threatened by a stalker, a would be rapist, or abusive partner. Waiting period? You wait; you die. Restraining order? Don’t make me laff!
(2) Background checks of records maintained by the gooferment. You think they are right or complete? And, for what purpose? Even ex-cons should have right to defend themselves. Beside where do criminals buy their guns. Clue: Not legally; not at a gun store.
(3) Automatic weapons, other than being fun, are a good way to even up the sides with biker gangs or an intrusive Federal gooferment. If their side has them, then our side should as well.
(4) Car can be carjacked. Talk to that NJ teacher who had a tape recorder in her pocket when she was kidnapped by an nutty student. Oh yeah, that’s right, you can’t, she’s dead! Guess if that recorder was a small, but illegal, 380, then she could be alive and he’d be eliminated from the gene pool.
(5) “should have the right” is wrong. You always have rights! They are inalienable. You can’t give them up. You have that right at all times. Regardless what any number of politicians or people say.
It became nuts when people forgot that the best way to protect a flock of sheep is to sprinkle in a few “sheepdogs with big teeth”.
Remember: A democracy is two wolves and sheep deciding what’s for dinner. A republic is one well-armed sheep disputing the election.
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