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Originally Posted by regas56
WE have 70-80 year old men zipping around TV in 755Hp Corvettes that will do 200 MPH that have zero race car training or better yet 16 year old boys driving super bikes that will travel 210 MPH that have zero super bike training.. Why? Where can we drive that fast in public? Between the rifle and the vehicles guess which kills 100 times more innocents per year? Just because you put racing stripes on a Prius doesn't make it any faster or more dangerous and the same goes for an AR or AK.. Yep no REASON to own an AR15 but in America just like the Vette and the Honda the law says you can and being responsible with any of the 3 are on the owner and not society..
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Excellent response. There is a difference between need and want. How many US citizens Need to use tobacco or drink alcohol? But they do because it’s legal and they want to. Yet how many hundreds of thousands die each year from satisfying their wants? Let’s look at auto accidents - Approximately 50,000 people die each year. Of those approximately 10,000 are related to alcohol. Probably the majority of the other 40,000 were speeding related. The sad thing is many of those that died were neither the speeding nor the impaired driver. They were bystanders. So let’s only make 2 cylinder 50 hp cars that cannot exceed 60 mph. Probably those who oppose guns would oppose this requirement which would save thousands of lives. As for real men. Real men wrote the 2nd Amendment for a real reason. Many people do not understand the underlying reason for its existence and some that do do not believe anything like that could happen here. Look around you and think again. People don’t need to shoot an AR at a shooting range. They’re right. Also people don’t need to jump out of perfectly good airplanes, dive 300 feet below the surface into dark caves, die climbing Mt Everest, race cars and motorcycles at 200+ mph but they want to and enjoy it. In response to the statement that real men don’t need guns some might say a man is not a real man if he doesn’t have a weapon to protect his family.