giggitygiggity
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What boggles my mind is how anti-gun folks will compare cars to guns. "Why are you not in favor of gun registration or needing to obtain training and a license to purchase a gun... you need to do all that stuff for a car and cars don't hurt people."
For one, owning or operating a car is not guaranteed in the Constitution. If we want to start registering guns or requiring training or licenses for guns, then let's be fair and do it for all rights guaranteed by the Constitution! Before anyone can write a book, they need to obtain a special license to demonstrate that they know how to write, every publication needs to be serialized and registered with the government, etc. It sounds stupid because it is.
Secondly, cars are far more dangerous than guns. Actually, that is not correct as a car, like a gun, is also an inanimate object. A correct statement would be that more people are harmed or killed while operating cars than they are by guns in the U.S. Should there not be a call to ban cars since more lives are lost in the use of cars than they are through the use of guns? How about banning fast food since it's consumption kills people by way of heart attacks?
It's just flawed thinking. We supposedly live in a free country. Those freedoms come with risks. We need to accept the risks and severely punish those who violate the well-being and freedoms of others vice stripping the rights of all so that we can live safely; I'd rather be free than safe. We need to accept that people will defamation (1st Amendment crime) and that people will commit homicide with firearms (2nd Amendment crime), but have a justice system that will punish those who abuse their rights and inflict pain and suffering onto others.
For one, owning or operating a car is not guaranteed in the Constitution. If we want to start registering guns or requiring training or licenses for guns, then let's be fair and do it for all rights guaranteed by the Constitution! Before anyone can write a book, they need to obtain a special license to demonstrate that they know how to write, every publication needs to be serialized and registered with the government, etc. It sounds stupid because it is.
Secondly, cars are far more dangerous than guns. Actually, that is not correct as a car, like a gun, is also an inanimate object. A correct statement would be that more people are harmed or killed while operating cars than they are by guns in the U.S. Should there not be a call to ban cars since more lives are lost in the use of cars than they are through the use of guns? How about banning fast food since it's consumption kills people by way of heart attacks?
It's just flawed thinking. We supposedly live in a free country. Those freedoms come with risks. We need to accept the risks and severely punish those who violate the well-being and freedoms of others vice stripping the rights of all so that we can live safely; I'd rather be free than safe. We need to accept that people will defamation (1st Amendment crime) and that people will commit homicide with firearms (2nd Amendment crime), but have a justice system that will punish those who abuse their rights and inflict pain and suffering onto others.