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Originally Posted by crockett
The point I was making with the fully auto guns has gone right over your head and right out the door.
The point was to show that they are highly regulated and "hard" to get. Hence they are not used in crimes. If all guns were regulated in the same manor, then it would also be much harder for criminals to get them.
The key to stopping the insane amount of gun violence in this country is stricter regulations and much tougher stance on people caught with out legal guns.
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And my rebuttal to your stance is that the regulations on the weapons you are talking about have nothing to do with criminals using them. Criminals use what works BEST and costs the least.
Are there less machine guns in the U.S. than 38 specials? Of course there are. Is it because of laws and regulations? Maybe. Or maybe it has a little more to do with the fact that machine guns (and of course the ammo for them) are VERY expensive. Has little to do with regulations.
A Ferrari is far more expensive than a Ford Focus too. And there are a lot more Fords than Ferrari's. Nothing to do with laws and regulations.
And if you were going to rob a bank you definitely wouldn't drive a Ferrari to do it even if you could afford it. You would instantly be arrested because it stands out like a sore thumb.
Same with guns.
I shoot you with a common 38 and it's gonna be almost impossible to trace that bullet.
But let me do it with a rare machine gun (like Rambo lol) and they will be able to trace that back very quickly...not because of the law, but because the weaponry is so expensive and uncommon.
The "stricter regulations" and "tougher stance" (whatever that means) does little more than give the govt. even more power over it's citizens. And makes it harder for law abiding people to purchase a gun.
It won't do anything to stop a criminal from getting any weapon that he needs to accomplish what he wants to do.
And again...your whole agenda in this thread has absolutely nothing to do with this tragedy. A girl was shot to death by a COP. No machine guns were used.
