You're being just as crazy binary about this as crazy fundy conservatives. Why do you see this as an either/or kind of thing? Why is is heavily regulate guns, or lawlessness? We have gun laws now. We don't even need the gun laws we already have because last time I checked, every horrible thing you can do with them is illegal. It is against the law to kill, destroy other people's property, harass or threaten people.Quote:
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I don't think it has much to do with France and England of 1791. I think it has more to do with the human condition and mortality. A person should have the ability to kill. It is part of life. All other living organisms have the ability to kill other organisms. And being a species that has had an industrial revolution, most people would prefer to do so with a product of that revolution. A machine, a gun.Quote:
And still people demand their right to live with the undisputed right to own an assault rifle under their pillow, all because Congress saw the very real possibility of England ending their war in France and coming back to retake the former colonies when they wrote the Amendment in 1791.
This was probably more self evident 30, 50 years ago when more people were not quite as far removed from life and death as we are now. More so when we still had frontier and could die in the middle of nowhere from disease or a rattle snake bite.
And to be honest, your solution sounds pretty perverse to me. I can only imagine just how much more kids will be removed from the harshness of existence if we did everything you wanted. I mean shit, man, does it not strike you as odd that you want to take something man has done longer than he has been able to talk, hunting animals, and regulating it away to some special place? That seems natural to you?
Some of this shit is good for people. The gun debate itself makes me think about life, mortality, my place here on earth, etc, more. If I was to actually hunt, I'd probably start eating more like Josh. To be honest, and I'm probably not the only one here, I can get caught up in the modern daily life. I don't think about death a lot. But if I was to hunt a dear, kill it, dress it and all that stuff, I'd probably cut down on my meat intake a lot more. Hell, I might still do it.
You're reasoning is bizarre. We already have people that shove tons of food in their mouths that they give no thought to. They don't think about the animals that die for them to eat and you want to make the truth more distant?
Come on man, lets not live in a Chicken McNugget world
