Făkünamę wrote:Seth wrote:Svartalf wrote:A real context, not brags and insults, you two.
It is real context. Strangely, with all that ammunition and all those guns I've not killed a single school child with any of it, and all of it is 100 percent intended and to be used for protecting the innocent and defenseless.
I'm sorry, but did you just describe yourself in some role approximating that of a police officer?
Yup. "Police, at all times, should maintain a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and the public are the police; the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent upon every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence." Sir Robert Peel, Founder, London Metropolitan Police, the model for every modern law enforcement agency in the civilized world today.
By law, my powers of arrest, as a citizen, are identical to those of a police officer for ANY crime committed in my presence.
That remains the fact for 99.999999 percent of all "semi-automatic assault weapons and high-capacity ammunition feeding devices."
Proof.
Take the number of mass killings perpetrated with "semi-automatic assault weapons" (fewer than 100) and divide by the total number of semi-automatic rifles of military appearance in civilian hands (greater than 50 million). I'll bet you could add a couple of 9's to that figure.
We don't regulate away people's rights
A right you should not have.
merely because one or two (or ten) people commit mass murder
Right. You wait until 10,000 people commit mass murder, declare a state of anarchy and open fire with your own arsenal.
Strawman argument.
we harden society and provide defenses for the defenseless against such attacks just as we would if we were facing Islamic terrorists attacking our schools.
So you pass on the burden of ownership to others for something you have no right and no reason to own? Brilliant.
Except that I DO have a right and a reason (several of them actually) to own them, as enunciated by our Constitution and affirmed by our Supreme Court.
That we haven't already done this is our national shame.
That people like you and mozg exist is your national shame.
Fuck you asshole.
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