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Firefighters Gunned Down in Western New York

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austin_blue12/24/2012 12:18:20 pm PST

re: #25 celticdragon

I don’t see how you can conflate the ownership of and tyranny over a living human being with the ownership of a firearm, which is a morally neutral object and utterly inanimate.

We can set limits on what kind of firearms people should have access to, but guns themselves have no intrinsic moral quality.

I don’t disagree- there is little difference between a baseball bat and a gun- intrinsically. Both make good weapons. The problem with a gun is that you can stand off and kill lots of people from a distance rather than chasing them and hitting them in the head with a Louisville Slugger.

I also don’t have a problem with how a gun looks or what kind of bullet it shoots. What I have a problem with is capacity. A 30.06 cartridge works equally well in a deer rifle and a BAR. But the BAR can hold lots and lots of bullets and is therefor a more lethal and immoral weapon.

Would you agree that any reasonable person should not be able to own a magazine or clip that holds more than six shells? It’s a simple fix. It does not prevent the right to bear arms in any way, shape, or form. A trade-out mechanism, with no grandfathering for existing possession of any clip/magazine bigger than six rounds, would be simple to implement and not require the buy-back of a single gun.