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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Omega: [QB] JK [i]Omega, what I want to do is get the assault rifles off the street.[/i] As do I. However, they are already illegal, so more laws are not the answer. Increased funding for law enforcement, on the other hand, would seem like a good idea, as would an Attourney General who actually enforces the law. [i]I want to make sure that people who buy firearms know how to use them, and aren't likely to go psycho and shoot other people for reasons known only to themselves.[/i] How do you intend to do this? Do you know how utterly rare it is that someone snaps and goes postal like that? Do you know how few of the people that snap can be determined to be risk factors beforehand? Also, since you say that you don't want guns taken away completely, do you really trust the people that DO not to do it? Once you allow the government to set the standards by which one may defend one's self, what's to prevent them from upping the standards to an impossible level? Why should you trust them NOT to do the things they say that they want to do? [i]I want people to go to a shrink so that we know the guy (or gal) getting an Uzi isn't likely to go use it on the holiday shoppers at the local shopping mall.[/i] IIRC, it's illegal to even OWN, much less buy an Uzi in the US. We're talking handguns and rifles, here. [i]At least I'm working towards a better society[/i] Exactly how do you define "better?" You don't seem to have any clear-cut ideas. You say you want to get rid of assault weapons, then you say that you want people who want to BUY an assault weapon to go through psychiatric screening. You also don't seem to take into account the effects of an immensely powerful government. Your "better society" doesn't seem very well thought through. [i]guns (which, don't kid yourself, are only made to take human life)[/i] No, they're made to fire a lead projectile at high velocity. What the user intends determines what it does. Say I point a gun at you. What's the first thing you're going to do. How do you react? I don't mean saying anything, what PHYSICALLY are you doing, and therefore what effect has my pointing the gun had on you? There's your other use for a gun. Then there's the hunters, and the people who just like to shoot at targets... I suppose water is meant only for rain? [i]If the worst you can attack me with is that I'm an Idealist, than take your best shot.[/i] ME, attack an idealist? Heck, no. I'm pointing out flaws in your ideals themselves. [IMG]http://flare.solareclipse.net/smile.gif[/IMG] [/QB][/QUOTE]
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