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originally posted by: Klassified
a reply to: sprockets2000
There's only one reason any government wants to disarm the public. They want you defenseless so you can't fight back. In the (very) unlikely event of a revolution, the government may win in the end, but they will have losses too. It's much easier to avoid that if they can get all the guns and/or ammunition ahead of time. Don't kid yourself, the scumbags in DC still fear an armed population no matter how cocky they act. Just look at DC right now.
originally posted by: Edumakated
originally posted by: andy06shake
a reply to: ketsuko
So called "Assault Rifles" don't actually exist.
So again, what purpose does this gun control serve?
Now you're just arguing semantics. Assault rifles very much do exist, the only disagreement is over what counts as one.
No hunter needs a bump stock and an extended magazine, and a grenade launcher is impractical fit home defence.
And the purpose is to seperate civilian firearms that have a practical purpose such as hunting and home defence from rifles designed to emulate military weapons as closely as legally possible.
If you want to feel like you're carrying an m16 then you probably want an assault rifle. So that's your definition of what one is.
originally posted by: recrisp
I can say that I don't really believe that legally they can come and take OUR guns, but there are many ways (I feel) that they can stop you from using them, such as limiting, or completely making it impossible to get ammo.
I saw when a lot of the Right said that it would be a mistake if they would go to the Capitol with their guns, and it was being said all over the internet that they would go. It turns out, after the Capitol "thing" nobody did anything, I even read more than a few of the preppers on YouTube backed down and said to NOT go. So, although I believe that I have every right to own and keep a gun, I really don't see that kind of organization to get it all done. Nobody outside of the Armed Forces have what it takes to stop the government.
Another thing too, back when the hurricane in Louisiana hit guns were taken (not many, I don't think) and that was the Police and the National Guard, so, it can happen, and nobody is going to fight against it, probably. (I do know that one story was just a little old lady, but, still)
All I am saying is that it's easier to talk like a soldier than to act like one and do something. If there was a Civil War, it would not be a straight line war, meaning that it would be ALL OVER the U.S., not the North and the South type situation again. Where would we fight? It'd be small skirmishes at the very least, I'd think.
I do want to say, I would be one of the first to join up IF there was a plan, but I just can't see any of that happening. I am not for overthrowing any government, but I am also not for them taking away ANY of my rights, or your rights.
originally posted by: Brit-Tex
a reply to: andy06shake
I own guns as a Brit in tex I hunt I plink and I clay shoot.
All guns are guns but some guns are different is that what your saying ?
The only reason the projectiles are fired at different velocities is the direct correlation between barrel thickness and grains of combustible powder.
originally posted by: andy06shake
I think more guns than people is a bad situation for any first world nation to be in.
originally posted by: Edumakated
He thinks the .223 bullet used in ARs are made of unobtanium, fly around corners, and makes the pew pew laser sound...