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<blockquote data-quote="Jerhemy" data-source="post: 7963113" data-attributes="member: 639281">It is extremely difficult to get fully automatic weapons. As has been said already, none of these mass shootings have involved automatic weapons.Why should NEED necessitate legality and availability. We don&#039;t NEED pretty much any on the things we use everyday, cars, computers, stereos, but we as free individuals should be able to have them even if we don&#039;t need them.The problem with heavy gun registration and partial gun bans is that it is often the first and biggest step towards a total gun ban. Once you let the far too big Federal Government decide what we can have as far as guns, who is to stop them from simply adding all guns to that list. The phrase &quot;you give them an inch, they take a mile&quot; comes to mind here.The guns are not to blame, you can&#039;t punish someone (taking away our rights) for crimes they have not and will not commit. Again, being able to own any gun the police can have is key to the idea of the second amendment. It is not about hunting and sport shooting. It is about keeping the true power of this country with the people in the end. The officials that we &#039;elect&#039; into office lie out their asses to the entire population on a regular basis and do what they want/are told without thought of what we truly want. You can&#039;t really argue that the government will protect you, all they will do lay down martial law and lock us down, monitor everything we do and make it illegal to question their all mighty system and logic. I don&#039;t know about you But i do not want to live in a worse police state than we already do.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jerhemy, post: 7963113, member: 639281"] It is extremely difficult to get fully automatic weapons. As has been said already, none of these mass shootings have involved automatic weapons. Why should NEED necessitate legality and availability. We don't NEED pretty much any on the things we use everyday, cars, computers, stereos, but we as free individuals should be able to have them even if we don't need them. The problem with heavy gun registration and partial gun bans is that it is often the first and biggest step towards a total gun ban. Once you let the far too big Federal Government decide what we can have as far as guns, who is to stop them from simply adding all guns to that list. The phrase "you give them an inch, they take a mile" comes to mind here. The guns are not to blame, you can't punish someone (taking away our rights) for crimes they have not and will not commit. Again, being able to own any gun the police can have is key to the idea of the second amendment. It is not about hunting and sport shooting. It is about keeping the true power of this country with the people in the end. The officials that we 'elect' into office lie out their as[COLOR=black]se[/COLOR]s to the entire population on a regular basis and do what they want/are told without thought of what we truly want. You can't really argue that the government will protect you, all they will do lay down martial law and lock us down, monitor everything we do and make it illegal to question their all mighty system and logic. I don't know about you But i do not want to live in a worse police state than we already do. [/QUOTE]

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