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Originally posted by spinningfetus
That isn't the point anyway, you still haven't given me a good reason for these guns to be in the hands of the everyday citizen.
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And the "reason" you're looking for is: It's my right to keep and bear arms. It's not your right to decide what arms I should be allowed to have.
Getting into the business of "prove to me you should be allowed to own this particular gun" is one hell of a slippery slope. Our state constitution says my right to keep and bear arms shall not be questioned. It doesn't say "execpt for really nasty things that Spin doesn't like".
Imagine how much freedom of speech would be worth if I had to prove I should be allowed to read each book I wanted to on an individual basis. Or if every privacy right was subject to "Why? You're not hiding anything, are you?"
I think the core of the problem you have is that you live in a state that has taken away your self-defense rights, and now it's all sour-grapes. It was especially aggravating to come down here to PA and have your nose rubbed in it. Don't whine about how hard it is that you "look different"...I look plenty "different". The answer to feeling defenseless isn't to try to disarm everybody else; that just plain doesn't work.
(BTW, "I don't have a system." doen't mean you're incapable of being obnoxious with your car stereo..I can be plenty obnoxious with the stock stereo in my Saturn. )
And for all the huffing horror about what an evil assult weapon of mass distruction this clown was shooting...we seem to have lost track of the fact he didn't actually hurt anybody. Before you snap back with "he could have", I'll point out that the helo pilot could have too.