FinalEnigma wrote:I'm sorry, but there's no legitimate purpose for owning a 20mm gatling gun. normal, reasonable weapons such and handguns/rifles/shotguns/etc. are fine for self defense. There is no valid reason to need a gatling gun or a bazooka for self defense(you did say everything).
Ha ha sez who? Why can you judge what I want to do? Why is your judgment legitimate or valid? I like to push the envelope, I know that sounded radical but its not really, and I believe its a legitimate request. I like to collect neat military goodies. (and they are a lot better investment in Gold). I mean look you can buy a Honda for less than 15K that does almost 200 mph. A 16 year old can ride one. The speed limit is what 75? that bike will do over twice the legal speed limit. Maybe fast bikes terrify me? I might want to ban any bike that has more than 15 hp or any car that has more than 75hp. We need to exercise self responsibility not have more laws forcing us to do what some authority thinks is good for us.
We've all heard news stories on people opening up on a school with a rifle, or handguns.
Yes I blame the parents of the kids and society that forces two parents to work creating latchkey kids that have little to no parent child interaction. I don't believe access to guns cause such atrocities. If the teachers had been armed in most cases I feel the carnage would of been much less.
I do not need to read a story about the dozens of dead that would result if a nutcase opened up on a school with a 50 cal from the back of his van, or decided to blast a church with a bazooka on sunday morning.
You see that is pure naive thinking. Lets say I wanted to inflict mass casualty in a church or school. I wouldn't use anything that would call attention to myself. Explosives are easy to make and use, Timothy McVeigh demonstrated how to do that. More deadly firearms and weapons shouldn't make any difference, especially if the perp wanted to remain anonymous.
I've fired both of those. if those were commercially available(and you did say everything) we would see people using them for real killing sprees, rather than the 5 or so usually killed in shootings.
I highly doubt that. I too am ex military. As I said you can pick up an issue of shot gun news get yourself a class III licenses and buy 20 mm cannon .50 cals etc. Heck 50 cal BMGs semi auto are obtainable over the counter and have been for years. How many have been used in the school and other mass killings? Zero except at WACO, where the branch dividans were massacred by FBI ATF types. They were fairly effective there, but even there the rifles and shotgun type weapons killed more people.
or what about claymore mines? I could walk right into a classroom at school, set it down in my backpack, walk out the door and blow up half the room, then pull my m4 with attached grenade launcher and run down the hall lobbing grenades into each room, and shooting anyone who tries to leave the rooms with the m4.
Claymores are simple explosive devices easily fabricated. If one really wanted to cause damage a huge multi ton truck bomb would be far more effective. There should be no survivors to run out. All that's needed there is a few sticks of Dynamite and some other easily obtainable available chemicals.
No, unrestricted weaponry for citizens is absurd.
They should be sold the same way other weapons are sold, maybe with a little better background check. You need to trust your fellow man more even if he is toting a M-60 around.
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