Quote:
Originally posted by stevepaa
Assault weapons, and handguns are the issue. Those firearms resulting in deaths of innocent people, mostly children
I do not want your rifle or shotgun.
But you can certainly continue to throw up the red herring that anti-handgun people want to eliminate all firearms. I do not see much legitimacy in such a claim, but it certainly is useful to scare people away from rational discussions.
|
To paraphrase Ted Nugent, "If guns kill people, mine must be defective"
If you are fine with my having rifles and shotguns, why not handguns? My loaded pistol with it's triggerlock is more secure than my empty longuns.
No red herrings here--banning one type of gun makes it too easy to apply the justification for that ban to another type then another. Look at the UK, and more recently Australia.
I know it is cliched, but alot of gun owners in the US are of the "from my cold dead fingers" variety.