Phenom:
I also said safe in my post too. Why the heck would I want to write that joker?
I'd bet that you'd like him if you would only take the initiative and write to him. Don't be shy or standoffish. Take the initiative.
Then maybe you can tell him what you seriously believe won't happen and he can tell you what he seriously believes has happened and is happening. It could be a lot of fun to see how your beliefs measure against reality when he shows you not only the laws that have been passed but also the ones that have been proposed and are being proposed. And then you can get to say again "I can't seriously believe all that will happen."
What you said, by the way, was "I can understand a good steel cabinet or safe" as if the two were interchangeable or you would get to choose. There are very high standards for approved gun safes in California, and they are costly. Why it's almost as if one of the tactics being used by anti-gun forces is to escalate the cost of gun ownership so that many people can't afford it even when it's legal--until they can make it illegal, which you seriously believe can't happen.
But you and I can have some fun too. I especially enjoyed your jokes about your "gun." Funny. But let's look at what you think, because that's where the humor lies.
Phenom:
Tell me, just how are they going to get the gun I was born with between my legs Gun is just a generic term. Banning replicas would mean banning squirt guns, cap guns and so forth, there's trillions out there. Banning of firearms is possible but unlikely
Start with your statement that "Banning replicas would mean banning squirt guns, cap guns and so forth, there's trillions out there. " But many school districts do ban replica guns and expel students who take one into school. Oh, sure, I know that's unlikely because you seriously don't believe it can happen (and for real good reasons too you betcha), but the more important point is that school districts think it's "likely" and they really, truly do it. So either you're living in fantasy or the school districts do. I wouldn't for the world want to say that you don't know what you're talking about, so it seems kinder to suggest that you contact the people who are actually doing what you seriously don't believe what will happen.
Now go on to your hilarious comment about your "gun":
Tell me, just how are they going to get the gun I was born with between my legs
I wouldn't presume to tell you about such a personal matter, and I understand that you're attempting to be funny, but it might be worth noting that even such matters have been addressed by governments that have ordered sterlization and castration for the public good. It would be nice to say "it can't happen here" but it has happened in the U.S. and probably still is happening. In fact the Eugenics Movement was born here and showed Nazi Germany the way to its most horrific policies: first to the sterlization of undesirables, then to their extermination, and then to the expansion of the "undesirables" so that Jews, Gypsies, homosexuals, Christian Scientists, and many other groups were legally defined as "undesirable" and therefore subject to death.
That "gun" of yours isn't exempt from deactivation or removal by a government. Gun owners are considered to be undesirables by many people. All it takes is a law, and your "gun" is grass. It happens, it has happened, and it can happen. What can't happen is that people could be required by law to strap themselves into their own cars: what a guy does within the guy's car is his own business, so it's seriously unbelievable that he could be required to strap himself into it. And what a guy eats is his own business too, so it can't happen that unsaturated vegetable oil could be banned. What a guy puts in his own mouth is certainly nobody else's business, so let's light up a cigar, pipe, or cigarette and chat together. Can't ban alcohol either, thank goodness, so none of us seriously believe in Prohibition. Can't send someone to jail just for taking a date on a vacation to another state or country: the Mann Act never happened.
Can't this. Can't that. Fantasies are lovely, until they aren't. Many other people here are in touch with reality. That's why they are upset. You're not. That's why you're happy, because you seriously can't believe that what's happening is indeed really happening. Lucky you. Have fun with your "gun."
