Eightball
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Y'know, change just a couple of the nouns in your assessment, and that's "the next stage" for the Anti's to get us to think. You'll hem and haw, but this is ultimately what's happening. I just altered your statement to a close approximation of what civilians own now, with what a presumable Fudd would say after, oh, say, an AWB II was instituted. It's not an impossible logical step.expvideo said:This guy either stole illegal "assault" guns and "smokeless reloading powder" from the "only government-approved owners" (you assume), or he bought ones that were stolen in an illegal purchase (you assume). This is not someone who has been taken advantage of by law enforcement. This is a bad guy. I don't care how old he is.
He didn't have unbanned hunting weapons. He had "assault" guns, hi-capacity magazines and reloading supplies. I don't think they should be illegal either, but they are.
Tell me why you think I should sympathize with a criminal.
Once again....change a couple nouns, and it's potentially scary what people can think in a few years.woodfriend said:How would you feel if your next door neighbor had 60 pounds of reloading supplies, 6 blocks of "explode-on-contact primers", and 37 (previously non-illegal) firearms? The (previously legal) firearms were a little alarming to me, but WHO IN THE WORLD needs reloading supplies of that design? Come on! What the heck would you do with that? I think we need to start trusting our big brother and accept that he could have been a terrorist.
Change a word or two here and there.......and presto!woodfriend said:Okay, yeah he was going to do something completely legal, but in a really bizarre way. Except that he had conceal-carry firearms. That makes sense guys.
That should cause alarm to any sane person. He wasn't going to have fun with it, he was going to kill people, in any end, that's what it would have been for. Face it. That's what his firearm was for. Period. Killing people. And, he got it [PRESUMABLY] illegally. He's going to jail for an extremely long time. End of conversation.
Frankly, if the guy next door to me had a bunch of MGs and DDs, I'd be jealous. If they were illegal, maybe I'd wonder, but I wouldn't instantly ASSUME they were illegal; and if they were legal, then that's all there is to it.
I'm not "for" the guy, or "for" the ATF. It's just kind of frightening how many "pro" gun people's statements, if you change the firearm/item in question to a closely-equivalent item which is currently legal, is precisely what Fudds would say about an AWB, or the next level down from Fudds would say when "Sniper rifles" are banned, or......or.....etc.
It's also really not cool when we instantly assume the guy's guilty (okay, well maybe in his state, yes, but let's think on a broader level here). Whatever happened to that whole "innocent until proven" thing?
And I'm not trying to pick on people specifically; this is more of a "devil's advocate" thing to make a point.