Subj : Re: Gun Insurance
To   : Tracker1
From : Moondog
Date : Fri Jul 08 2022 08:53 pm

  Re: Re: Gun Insurance
  By: Tracker1 to Dumas Walker on Thu Jul 07 2022 01:36 pm

 > On 6/24/22 14:10, Dumas Walker wrote:
 >  >
 >  > Exactly.  I may not have worded it exactly right.  I think they
 >  > believe that law abiding citizens having guns means there are more
 >  > guns out there for law breaking persons to have access to
 >  > (whilebreaking the law).  Their belief is that we should be willing
 >  > to give up our guns, or at least have ours all registered, tracked,
 >  > and restricted (as to what we can own) so that criminals cannot get
 >  > their hands on them.  <rollseyes>
 > 
 > Realistically, if they *REALLY* wanted to cut down on gun violence,
 > they'd be trying to outlaw handguns, not rifles (AR-15 etc) to begin
 > with.  The vast majority of gun violence and gun related crimes (armed
 > robbery, etc) is done with a handgun... but those aren't the ones that
 > typically make the headlines and are exceedingly rare.
 > 
 > Note: this is not an endorsement of the idea, just pointing out the
 > ignorance and hypocrisy.
 > --
 > Michael J. Ryan - tracker1@roughneckbbs.com
 > 

Even in the orgianl language of the NFA act of 1934, handguns were intended to
 be banned.  The problem was even most folk who say they are anti-gun
wouldn't mind owning a handgun to be kept by their bed.  An analogy is razor
blades are safer than axes even though it's easier to hide a razor blade and
they can do their of damage if they slice a major artery.

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