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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I like handguns. I've fired handguns and found them to be a lot of fun. Still, I see no use for them for about 90% of the population. And I'd never own one. I am no NRA nut.
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I agree with you on all of this. Shooting is fun. Hunting is fun. I've had a job where I carried a gun.
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That said, the idea the govt, which already intrudes in our lives to a degree never intended by the framers, may intrude more and more while simultaneously forcing us to give up weapons presumes an ever benevolent govt. While even a hardened hater of govt like myself thinks the govt is generally benevolent, and though I don't think we're moving toward a full-on Big Brother state of any sort, I'm still uneasy with the idea of any controlling entity curtailing my access to an instrument of self-defense thats been commonly used by half the country for the last 200 years. I think on a level we don't admit exists, the populous's easy access guns act as a last line deterrent against complete control by the govt, were the govt ever to shift into such a dictatorial mode.
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I don't think it's much of a deterrent. It didn't help Germany's Communists when the Nazis took over.
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