People want semi-automatics and clip-fed guns banned and defined them as "assault weapons" (usually thinking they're talking about fully automatic weapons).  The term itself is a lie, and a great many people think that automatic weapons (where you pull the trigger and a stream of bullets flies out - a machine gun) are what they're talking about when they say "assault rifles" - but automatic weapons are already against the law and have been so for decades, unless you have a special license (and possibly even demonstrated reason for owning such).  They seem to be inured to the fact that what they think about isn't what they're calling to ban.

I also didn't mention it before, but for political reasons my tribe was declared a "potential terrorist risk" and I've seen bills floated across the table (even came to a vote) that would have given the states/fed the right to disarm us (which was exactly what the KKK wanted).  Add to that the nature of this Good Christian hellhole (think Liberty University on steroids) in which we're trapped, and we have greater reason to be concerned than most.  We HAVE, after all, experienced Christian Terrorism while living here (due to my publicly resisting the Dominionists) - multiple times.

At the same time it's rather unusual to encounter people with some common-sense rule suggestions.  The situation is almost binary - either no regulation/rules whatsoever, or total bans and confiscation - or totally inflexible regulations that would make life miserable (I should add that a lot of people don't know the connection between hunters and conservation).

I don't have a problem with a "sales delay" (as long as it's not days or weeks), and I believe that gun owners in general support instant background checks (maybe even the NRA - I haven't kept up on that).  That's not unreasonable.  I also know a lot of people who could use safety classes - but I'd be more than pissed if I was forced to go into one, because I probably would know more about the subject than the teacher!  (Some of the so-called "safety" rules are actually counterproductive, I might add.)

That's not what people are complaining about - it's the confiscation and ban crowd that scares us (even of the misnamed "assault rifles" - which is a significant portion of modern hunting rifles).  I can think of a number of situations where some of the present rules and laws are more of a burden than not, and they exist because of the confiscation and ban crowd (generally urban folks who have little knowledge or experience of firearms besides reading about shootings in the news).

I'll reiterate my point - that many of the things considered "reasonable" really are not, and that the wrong people will be harmed.  At the same time, I'll also add this - if I ever go to that area, I will avoid "Liberty University" like the plague, because in our experience the people who would attend there are far more likely to be a real danger than the general populace.


by ArchaeoBob on Thu Dec 10, 2015 at 03:40:13 PM EST
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