... has people asking questions about the laws that failed to save lives.
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This is the attitude that is leading us down the road to a police state. Now, I don't want innocent people to be killed or injured, either. But the purpose of the government is NOT to make sure nobody dies. There are those who are only too eager to trade all of their real freedom for a perceived sense of security provided by the government. Is freedom wonderul? Yes, it is. Is it devoid of risk? Absolutely not.
... after he was diagnosed with schizophrenia, he got the weapons back in accordance with state and federal law.
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Federal for 4473 only asks if you have been adjudicated mentally incompetent or committed to a mental institution. There are an infinite number of degrees of mental illness, just as there are with physical illness. Some are minor afflictions and some are major. Should a person not be allowed to drive a car because he has no pinky finger on his left hand? Or arthritis in his knee? Or no left leg? Or no arms? I say "no pinky finger = okay", "no arms = not okay." In between, it is gray. The same with mental illness. While I admit that schizophrenia sounds major to me, it is awfully easy to brand someone in a newspaper article without knowing the full story. Whip the populace into a frenzy with the use of the right "buzz word" to achieve your political goal.
You can get one undetected at a gun show and you can go out and kill somebody with it.
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I can also buy an ice pick, a baseball bat, an axe, a can of hair spray and a zippo, etc., and go out and kill people with them. Again, in a free country, you can't arrest somebody until AFTER they have committed a crime. The world is dangerous - all the more reason to CCW.
Rationally, hunters don't need an assault rifle to kill a rabbit.
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He has a weapon militarily designed in a communist country for destruction, that's it. It's not designed for hunting.
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This is one of the greatest coups of the anti-gunners - that the 2nd amendment is about hunting and sporting rights. WRONG!!!
IPD Officer ... says the difference between the legal and illegal assault rifles is not that much.
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Ironically, this is about the thing they got right.
<Diane Fenstein> But, the AWB reduced crimes with AW's by 66%!!!</Diane Feinstein>
Okay, I've had enough fun for now.