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Originally Posted by detbuch
One way to do it is to totally control society and all those who people it. Huxley showed a way to do that in his Brave New World.
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"One way to do it is to totally control society and all those who people it. "
Yes that's one way. It's also a silly caricature of what people like me are actually saying. I'm pretty sure I'm not in favor of totalitarianism. Again, it's not necessarily one extreme or the other, and you rarely resort to such tactics. Banning bump stocks and high capacity magazines, seriously seems Orwellian to you? Not to me.
"The Supreme Court seems to have imposed limits on how far the states can impose limits."
Absolutely. And I want people in the mold of Scalia, deciding what limits are OK, and what is going too far. All I'm talking about, are the tools that make mass murder easier. It's sad to me that we (as a nation) can't come close to an agreement on that.
"He used an AR 15 "assault weapon." It takes comparable firepower to fight back against those who have such firepower."
We need to prevent them from having such easy access to that firepower, to begin with. That's one of the points of this.
In this case, it looks like we have a sufficient law in place, but the idiots in the Air Force didn't enforce it the way they were supposed to. From what I understand, the assault that got him discharged (he assaulted a baby and his wife) should have precluded him from getting any kind of firearm. We dropped the ball, and paid a massive price.