Wai-wai-wai-wai-wait,
grenade launchers on your assault rifle... those are
legal?
Wai-wai-wai-wai-wait,
you don't need a background check to buy a gun? Didn't
we deal with that 20 years ago? Talked about it on
WTVN all the time. I guess it's rant
time...
Duh. The thing is?
I'm pro-gun. Completely. For protection, for hunting,
hell for arming yourself for the Zombie Apocalypse I
don't give a fuck... but certain guns are stupid to
have in the general population and we should be
focusing our time and money on getting rid of those
and CERTAINLY on keeping them illegal. 100 round
magazines? 7 shots a second? Huh? Why? In fact, people
that are pro-gun? Should be pissed off that the NRA
hasn't regulated themselves better. 'Cause now we're
in this situation. If you don't self-regulate
GRENADE LAUNCHERS, you risk everything getting
banned. You have a gun show loophole for background
checks? You risk all the people that had their
background checks getting theirs legally down the
road. Now? Now there will be more regulations. You
couldn't get your shit together and regulate yourself
(uh, let's proliferate guns that shoot 7 shots a
second for... deer hunting!) and now the federal
government will do it for you. Dumbasses.
But of course
there's this age-old line that I argues on the
radio:
And using my
IndyCar analogy?
There's just no
valid argument to that. It would be remarkably
dangerous to have IndyCars on our freeways and in our
neighborhoods. They aren't designed for that. In the
LEAST. Neither are assault rifles. Neither are
military grade weapons... DUH. There is absolutely no
debate unless you happen to own one of these and want
to continue to.
Again, it sucks,
because I like the "gun control" debate. I
like siting the 2nd ammendment and freaking out people
who hate ALL GUNS. I like the concealed
carry laws... but come on people, grenade launchers?
100 round magazines? They just have no business in our
society. Don't believe me? Look at statistics from
other countries. There just isn't a good
counter-argument.
Thankfully,
there's political will for it now no matter how tragic
the path that got us here. And to the pro-gun crowd:
Without sensible gun control laws?
EVERYONE'S GUNS ARE IN JEOPARDY. Ya
know how if you couldn't play nice when you were a kid
your parents eventually took your toys away? Even
though it wasn't YOURRRRRRRRRRRRRRR fault? Well,
like it or not, if you don't apply some common sense
to your "hobby" everyone's gonna lose. So support
common sense things like background checks (fucking,
duh) and limits on magazines, etc. and all will be
fine. No one is "taking your guns away".
