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Originally Posted by Taltarzac725
Right. Ordinary people should have the weapons being used in the Ukraine war right now. The Founding Fathers would have found that acceptable.
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Originally Posted by affald
Exactly.
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Well, probably, but just the same, automatic carbines, machine guns, grenades, rocket launchers, tanks, howitzers, missiles, land mines, poison gas, bombers, and anti-aircraft guns have been outlawed in private hands since generations before any of us was born.
I think Taltarzac725's sarcastic post merely means he objects to scary-looking black rifles that he doesn't understand. I suspect they scare him because he never served his country and therefore has no idea what a real military weapon looks like. And he's obviously never been hunting or he would understand the difference between a little .223 caliber varmint-hunting gun and a seriously deadly 30-06 deer-hunting rifle.
Taltarzac725 -- since you find this subject so confusing, I have a suggestion. Drive over to Sportsman's Paradise this afternoon and ask them to show you the difference between a .223 round and a 30-06 round. I think you will be able to instantly discern which one is more likely to instantly kill a man. Then ask the guy to show you a .223 rifle and a 30-06 rifle, and see which one "looks" the scariest.
Believe it or not, looks can be deceiving.
Then, try to imagine yourself on a battlefield in 1776, facing an Englishman from 25 yards away, who is shooting at you with a beautifully-crafted "Brown Bess" musket, which fires a 3/4" round ball of lead at twice the speed of sound. You have no armor or protection of any kind and you are fighting the way they fought in those days -- standing in a line, shooting straight ahead. Your odds of surviving the experience are about one in four -- unlike today, when your odds of surviving a modern wartime gun battle using scary black rifles firing 700 hundred rounds a minute from 100 yards away are about 9 to one.
Is it sinking in, yet?
If the problem of lunatics with scary black varmint rifles bothers you, here's an idea.
Instead of trying to outlaw the millions of scary black guns already in circulation, what if we outlawed LUNATICS -- like we did for the 200 years before the asylums were emptied and we started having mass-murder events every month or so?