sandman said:
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I know that most law abiding people register their guns and that most criminals don't. I want to keep guns in citizens hands and I hope to never see the day when we can't. I'm strongly against such a ban.
I hadn't meant to say anything against you personally. The primarly thrust of the "people who know what's best for me" was against government.
The "Right to Keep and Bear Arms" presents a
choice for the individual - and the
individual can
choose whether or not to exercise that right.
The flipside of that is, if you
choose not to, don't come crying to be because it put your silly arse in a sling.
However, rights are, at their base level, all about choices - and taking that choice away is wrong, no matter how you look at it. While this isn't the "major" problem facing the world to-day, it's relatively minor - and can be "major" once you reduce the scope of it a bit ("minor" to the world, "major" to the United States. It's all about perspective.)
So, I really hadn't meant anything against you at all, and I categorically support
any measure that reverses a ban of anything declared
malum prohibitum ("wrong because WE SAY it's wrong." Not to be confused with
malum in se - "the simple fact of it is wrong." Use the yardstick of
malum prohibitum/
malum in se to measure any law you run across - and you'll find that most of them are artificial constructs.)
I just wanted to make sure you understood where I was coming from.
In another thread, I'd said I "fear government" more than I "fear God." Why is that? The answer is simple - God has only given us 10 rules to follow, and they've been the same for two thousand years. Government is constantly changing the rules - what was allowed to-day may become
streng verboten next week.
Any game where the rules can be changed at will is unfair.
