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The US has vast interests that other countries would love to get their hands on. Multiple EMP attacks could render our power grids and electronics useless in a first strike in order to have a invasion. You can never count anything out that is possible. That is why American's need to be armed and that the 2nd Amendment stay intact.
You have watched too many old, bad movies These days wars between civilized countries are increasingly of a virtual and economic nature. Not even China has an interest in US territory. They could simply grab neighboring Russia if they wanted to, would be much more lucrative.
More specifically, since automatic weapons are military-grade, and illegal for any civilian to use, should they be destroyed once the military no longer needs them? I don't see why not, but then again, I'm no military or gun expert. What would be the pros and cons of destroying military-grade weapons once they're no longer needed?
Since this was obviously a knee-jerk reaction to the CT shooting:
The shooter used a semi-automatic .223 rifle and two handguns. Automatic weapons are NOT the issue in this country. It's already illegal to own one without going through a rigorous application process, and I think there have only been a couple of crimes committed by legal owners of Class 3 firearms. Even most gangbangers stick to handguns and semi-auto rifles and shotguns.
Your Second Amendment rights at work! Elementary school children slaughtered... what are the people at the NRA telling themselves right now? “It’s OK—the next mass shooting won’t be nearly this bad.†We can shrug our shoulders and say this is just the way things are going to be from now on, or we can finally get serious about our culture of guns and violence and tell the NRA we’ve had enough.
Yesterday the Michigan state house passed a bill that allows people to carry guns in schools and daycare centers. It’s nice to know Michigan Republicans don’t just want to endanger union jobs. They also want to endanger children. They passed the bill allowing guns in schools the day before today’s tragic shooting at a school in Connecticut. Of course, nowadays any day can be the day of a tragic shooting somewhere in America.
What is it now...embrace a backward way of life? Live like Taliban in Afghanistan who carry around an AK47 and call it normal. Guns are not the answer...cleaning up the culture is the answer...for starters get those parasites in Hollywood under control who eat the flesh of children with their so-called entertainment were guns are every where. Guns have replaced the penis of American males and we send billions to Hollywood to those who have chopped it off.
clean up goverment and politicians 1st. I will say this much, if goverment bans certain types of firearms just because of how many rounds they hold or how they look, the culture war will be so bad that politicians will not care how many people die from the aftermath of making another bad law.
They didn't have weapons of mass destruction in mind. Any weapon that can be fired repeatedly without reloading should NOT be under the 2nd amendment. So if you want to own a single shot bolt action deer hunting rifle, that's about all that should be allowed IMO.
They should go house to house and collect every damn gun in the country after this.
Don't you know it is the gun nut's absolute f**king wet dream to be able to some day turn to his personal arsenal in order to "defend" himself against the federal government? After all, they watched the half-baked documentaries on Waco and Ruby Ridge and figure that someday, they too can be martyred for some cause rooted in sheer delusion. Meanwhile, the rest of us who live and work in the rational world can look at things objectively and say "you know what, in life there are no absolutes...the answer is usually somewhere in the middle...we require licenses and registrations and monitor vehicles for safety reasons? Could doing the same with firearms make an impact on public safety? Let's explore the issue."
My 2 cents. You do not need a military grade weapon to protect your family or hunt. These are weapons of war and murder. I am not anti gun. Infact, I plan to be a gun owner in the near future, but automatic weapons are for soldiers not civilians.
Do you have any idea how hard it is and the cost, to get a permit to own an automatic weapon?
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These days wars between civilized countries are increasingly of a virtual and economic nature. Not even China has an interest in US territory. They could simply grab neighboring Russia if they wanted to, would be much more lucrative.
