There are plenty of things we can buy if we want one.
I don't understand your comment.
There are plenty of things we can buy if we want one.
I believe we should have the right to buy a gun if we want one. Not because we need them for self defense or anything - just because we want one. That is freedom.
How is this a "loaded question?"
I believe we should have the right to drive as fast as we want on the highway. Not because we need to but because we want to. That is freedom.
I believe we should have the right to make meth in our garages. That is freedom.
I believe we should have the right to yell fire in a crowded theatre, just to see people's reaction. That is freedom
Of course you didn't include my entire comment. I said reasonable measures to control said buying would be reasonable - to try and keep them out of the hands that would make them dangerous. That would be similar to speed limits. Everyone is able to drive, we have just established agreed-upon limits as a society.
As a society we have decided that there are no redeeming qualities or safe recreational uses for meth - so that is not really an apt comparision. The same goes for yelling fire in a crowded theatre.
Of course you didn't include my entire comment. I said reasonable measures to control said buying would be reasonable - to try and keep them out of the hands that would make them dangerous. That would be similar to speed limits. Everyone is able to drive, we have just established agreed-upon limits as a society.
As a society we have decided that there are no redeeming qualities or safe recreational uses for meth - so that is not really an apt comparision. The same goes for yelling fire in a crowded theatre.
Of course you didn't include my entire comment. I said reasonable measures to control said buying would be reasonable - to try and keep them out of the hands that would make them dangerous. That would be similar to speed limits. Everyone is able to drive, we have just established agreed-upon limits as a society.
As a society we have decided that there are no redeeming qualities or safe recreational uses for meth - so that is not really an apt comparision. The same goes for yelling fire in a crowded theatre.
Gee I don't know. How would you receive that question when discussing gun control?
... Not sure why this is so hard to understand...
That's not anywhere close to a loaded question.
Have you or anyone in your sphere of influence committed a crime? Just asking.
That's the point. A large segment of our society is arguing that there are no redeeming qualities or safe recreational uses for guns.
You were dismissing hard data on the subject (gun deaths fewer in gun control areas) in favor of your baseless prediction of what bad people (criminals) would do with guns if the gun controls were in place. This board is rife with data on the results of gun control. You (apparently) disagree with all of it, and believe the opposite of what the data suggests.
So I thought maybe you had some insight into the American criminal mind that defies all of that data. Like maybe you were a guy who wanted to shoot people with a gun but have heretofore been reluctant to do so because lax gun controls meant more good people have guns and could shoot you back.
What was your answer?
Most people just answer such a benign question instead of claiming victimhood. We live in a country with the highest incarceration rates in the world. Plenty of people know "criminals" without the implication that something is wrong with them.
Have you or anyone in your sphere of influence committed a crime? Just asking.
Not really. A speed limit is not a "reasonable measure" to limit the legal ability to drive 120 mph on the highway to those capable of doing so safely. It's an outright ban on driving that fast.
I do not believe that is true. Define "large segment".