Stu,
I've been following this thread for awhile now and I have to hand it to you. You stood up, took your licks and kept swinging.
I, like you, don't want big brother in my bedroom, in my bank account, or in my gun safe. I also don't want someone elses moral values inflicted on me.
There are an awful lot of things that I personally think are morally wrong and abherant (sp) behavior. Would I like to see them go away? Yes. Would I ammend the Constitution to make it so? No.
I'm pretty sure Sarah Brady thinks that removing guns from our society is the "morally right" thing to do. And PETA thinks that "protecting animal rights" is the morally correct stance to take also. They never use examples of safe, conscientious gun owners and hunters to make thier points. They use extreme, graphic, and sometimes untrue examples to make thier cases as do some others that would like thier moral values enacted into law, thereby restricting our freedoms in the name of "the greater good".
Let me give you a hypothetical argument. There is no way to take the guns away from the criminals. The only way to eliminate gun violence is to take away the ammo. So, in the name of "public safety", the government is going into the ammo business. You can buy ammo only at the range, where it has to be used and what isn't must be turned in at the end of your session. You will only be issued ammo for hunting when you have been drawn for a tag and then only three rounds. The unused shells must be returned and the used ones must be accounted for and witnessed. Etc., Etc., Etc.
Would this program reduce gun violence? Probably so. Would it lower our health care costs because there will be less gunshot victims in the ER's? Probably so. Would it be Constitutional? I dare say it might be.
So, how would all of us feel about it?
We'd be screaming bloody murder about having some mamby pamby chicken **** liberal gay ******* trampling our rights and inflicting their morals on us because they think they know what's best for us and the rest of society.
Just a little food for thought. Alright, bring on the flames (pun intended).
I've been following this thread for awhile now and I have to hand it to you. You stood up, took your licks and kept swinging.
I, like you, don't want big brother in my bedroom, in my bank account, or in my gun safe. I also don't want someone elses moral values inflicted on me.
There are an awful lot of things that I personally think are morally wrong and abherant (sp) behavior. Would I like to see them go away? Yes. Would I ammend the Constitution to make it so? No.
I'm pretty sure Sarah Brady thinks that removing guns from our society is the "morally right" thing to do. And PETA thinks that "protecting animal rights" is the morally correct stance to take also. They never use examples of safe, conscientious gun owners and hunters to make thier points. They use extreme, graphic, and sometimes untrue examples to make thier cases as do some others that would like thier moral values enacted into law, thereby restricting our freedoms in the name of "the greater good".
Let me give you a hypothetical argument. There is no way to take the guns away from the criminals. The only way to eliminate gun violence is to take away the ammo. So, in the name of "public safety", the government is going into the ammo business. You can buy ammo only at the range, where it has to be used and what isn't must be turned in at the end of your session. You will only be issued ammo for hunting when you have been drawn for a tag and then only three rounds. The unused shells must be returned and the used ones must be accounted for and witnessed. Etc., Etc., Etc.
Would this program reduce gun violence? Probably so. Would it lower our health care costs because there will be less gunshot victims in the ER's? Probably so. Would it be Constitutional? I dare say it might be.
So, how would all of us feel about it?
We'd be screaming bloody murder about having some mamby pamby chicken **** liberal gay ******* trampling our rights and inflicting their morals on us because they think they know what's best for us and the rest of society.
Just a little food for thought. Alright, bring on the flames (pun intended).