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> > IOW, you (pl.) say you don't "prefer it if ONLY criminals carry weapons",
> > you (pl.) just want to change the law so everyone who carries a weapon is
> > by definition a criminal . . .
> >
>
> I didn't say that, and I didn't say anything about criminalizing guns.
Guns are already criminalized.
It seems like you are not reading what I wrote, but instead what you think I
mean based on the way you have clasified me, and your experiences with this
discussion in the past.
>It
> is
> my belief that there are relatively very few individual who can demonstrate
> an
> actual use for a personally owned gun
Every individual can demostrate a actual use for a personally owned gun. It
balances the tactical power, the threat of injury or death one individual can
have over another. Without ANY guns that power would be in the hands of
thowse who are larger and/or more willing to accept minor injuries...etc.
If everyone has a gun, that power is balanced.
The way we have criminalized the carying of a gun shifts that power instead
to criminals and makes our society more suseptible to those who would do
harm.
> - hunters, target shooters, for the
> most part - and we can devise ways to enable them to own guns while trying
> to
> keep guns out of the hands of those who really should not have them.
The ONLY ones who shuold not have guns are criminals. But with the laws the
way they are in most states ONLY the criminals carry guns.
>I
> don't
> think it's unreasonable or unconstitutional to try to do that.
You want to impose even more restrictions and therefore shift the balance of
power even more to favor the criminal. I am unaware if organized crime
employs a lobby, but you could always apply. (tong frimly planted in cheek)
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