Guns in America

[benfranklin]

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While it is true that WMD's have made it possible to kill an armed populace, occupying or controlling them is an entirely different matter. The Grandmaster, who believed in an armed populace said it very well:

"No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything--you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." --Robert A. Heinlein

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"An armed society is a polite society."
Robert Heinlein

[Jamougha]

What I find strange about US gun laws is that the weapons least likely to be used in a crime, and most likely to be useful in a civil war or w/e, are most likely to be banned. OTOH automatic handguns seem to be handed out in cereal packets. If you reversed that it would seem that you would reduce gun violence and keep the hillbillies somewhat mollified.

[renodoc]

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What I find strange about US gun laws is that the weapons least likely to be used in a crime, and most likely to be useful in a civil war or w/e, are most likely to be banned. OTOH automatic handguns seem to be handed out in cereal packets. If you reversed that it would seem that you would reduce gun violence and keep the hillbillies somewhat mollified.

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methinks there are many misunderstandings on the term "automatic"

[pig4bill]

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What I find strange about US gun laws is that the weapons least likely to be used in a crime, and most likely to be useful in a civil war or w/e, are most likely to be banned. OTOH automatic handguns seem to be handed out in cereal packets. If you reversed that it would seem that you would reduce gun violence and keep the hillbillies somewhat mollified.

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Look at the motivations of the people trying to enact it. Extreme liberals in the finest Marxist tradition, they know that one of the first steps to subjugation is disarmament of militia-type weapons.