Should the government ban the assault weapons of war and have a mandatory buy-back as Beto O’Rourke says? [apple.news]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Personally I am saving for a 30 caliber mini gun, 6000 rounds a minute and a hundred thousand or so rounds of ammo. Just think how safe I would be! Not!!
dalefvictor
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Sep 14, 2019
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I'm glad we have a Second Amendment. I'm sorry if the rest of the World doesn't. But I'm gonna hang on to mine!
davknight
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Sep 14, 2019
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@ToolGuy First, the 'banners' must take the time to define what it is they wish to 'ban'. Americans haven't been able to buy automatic weapons since the first Gun Control Act of 1934 was signed into law. An "assault rifle" is an automatic weapon. An AR-15 is not. The Second Amendment is supposed to guarantee Americans the right to own the weapons necessary to oppose tyranny. I take that to include machineguns, mortars, anti-tank, and anti-aircraft weapons, artillery, and armored fighting vehicles.
I would not make it mandatory .... just make a licence mandatory ... and make the licence increasingly expensive .. very expensive ...... and make all ammunition expensive ... very heavily taxed and expensive .... then make it a high fine for having unlicensed guns. ....
you can keep your guns, and stick with the 2nd amendment .... but you will have to pay handsomely for the privilege.
ShadowAmicus
Level 8
Sep 13, 2019
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And further confine arms ownership to the Rich? Not a chance!
@davknight more a case of arms being available to the few, not the many .I would make it that only multi nillionaires could afford to keep them
Yes. Ban assault weapons and high-capacity magazines. Do a mandatory buyback of all assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
LiterateHiker
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Sep 13, 2019
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If a government (any government) did that, then that government would have all the political power. No way! In the United States, that would trigger mass disobedience, and possibly civil war. It would go over about as big as the prohibition of alcohol did. It would also drive up the price of arms and ammunition, beyond the affordability of ordinary people. No thanks! If the Swiss government tried that, the whole population of Switzerland would fall over laughing at them! No thank you! Our Bill of Rights is the only thing standing between us, and total police-state tyranny!
davknight
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Sep 13, 2019
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Sounds like little P____ syndrome to me.
So your argument is 'I need an assault rifle to fend off the police and ensure I still have political power' Sorry, but do you realise how ridiculous that sounds?
And you think your assault rifle is goning to protect you from "the government's" rockets, tanks, Apache helicopters, etc.? That's so delusional.
@ToolGuy Marx was opposed to gun laws. Engels was opposed to gun laws. I am opposed to ALL gun laws, EVERYWHERE I don't care to live where only the "nice" politicians, the "nice" rich people, the "nice" police, the ICE police, or any kind of police have the monopoly on arms. The Second Amendment to the US Bill of Rights was designed to prevent tyrrany, by enabling the people to resist it!
@ToolGuy, @dare2dream So, to you, resistance to tyrannny is "futile" (you've never heard of the Viet Cong, or guerilla warfare).And people should just blindly, and meekly submit? I'm glad I'm not You. And I'm glad we have a Second Amendment!
@davknight I think it's funny that some people prepare for a war against the government but yet call themselves patriots. 
@dare2dream Can you distinguish “a war against the government” from “a war against those in power in the government”?
The former is imaginary; the latter could become real.
However, those in power in the government see themselves as the government.
@dare2dream yeah! I know just what you mean! My great-great-great-great grandfather (and his next youngest brother) servedin the Continental Army, in an assymetric war against the government of that time ( King George III). And those rebels had the gall to call themselves patriots! (Damned Rebels!).
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