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Originally Posted by Fishpart
There are far more critical issues the Pres should be working on right now, we are falling into a Fiscal Abyss and he has the country focused on disarming themselves. Typical smoke and mirrors of Fundamental Change.
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"the intent of the Framers was to prevent Tyrrany by making the government afraid of the people. With that in mind, we should have access to the best available technology."
I agree that was the framers intent. However, if someone genuinely believes that the only thing stopping the Marine Corps or the 82nd Airborne from attacking them is the possibility they might be armed...I'd say that person is extremely paranoid and not that bright.
If you want to keep those guns legal on the grounds that banning them is constitutional, I think you could have a valid point. If you say that citizens genuinely need these weapons to keep the federal gov't at bay, I don't think that argument holds water anymore. There are too many safeguards guaranteeing that can't happen.
"There are far more critical issues the Pres should be working on right now"
On that, I absolutely agree 100%. Even if you ignore the economy and say that violence is the most pressing issue, these bans won't do anything. 99.999% of crime is not committed with these weapons. In my opinion, that doesn't mean that
some good can't be done by banning them (though we need to also talk aboutthe constitutionality of any proposed ban)...but far more good could be done by addressing the problem of violence at its source, which is family dysfunction, poverty, and mental illness. This ban does absolutely nothing to address these things.