Saeko wrote:Generally yes. Known traitors are given almost no rights whatsoever. But this question is a dodge. Are you seriously saying that traitors, known terrorists, convicted felons, etc., should still be allowed to own guns?
Can you kill someone with your bare hands, words, and religion as easily as you can with a gun?
Do you have to purchase your own hands, words, baby, or religion?
I don't see how your own gun license qualifies as someone else's "luxury item".
Yes. When you are done with prison, ALL your rights should be fully restored. If you are too dangerous to rejoin society and have your rights restored, then maybe you should still be in prison. That goes for traitors (who I think should be executed in most cases), murderers, rapists, etc.
As easily? No, but that isn't the point. I can kill people with a knife, baseball bat, or a U Haul rental truck pretty easily too. So are you saying that we should have waiting periods, background checks, and other measures to prevent people from using those inannimate objects as weapons too? Since people use bombs to kill people, maybe we should outlaw bombs or at least require a background check for them. Hey, maybe to combat drug overdoses, we should make heroine illegal. Point being, my right to keep and bear arms, in the grand scheme of things, is no less deadly than voting for the wrong president who has nuclear weapons at his disposal.
No, I don't have to purchase those things, but you are missing the point. Are you saying that a Constitutional Right doesn't apply if it requires a thing? So you are perfectly acceptable with placing a 6 month waiting period and a $200 tax stamp and a background check just to buy a Bible or a copy of "Animal Farm" or a pen or a printing press or a computer with internet access to a chat board? That's silly. And speaking of silly, let's talk about the fact that in many places, I have to wait a week or more just because I want to buy an AR-15 or a pistol ... even though I already have about 15 pisols and multiple semi-automatic (not to mention fully automatic weapons). This is a "cooling off period" or so the bullshit lie say. Like if I was going to go nuts and want to kill someone, I'd go out and buy a new gun, as opposed to just go into one of my gun safes and get one I already own.
My gun license isn't a "luxury item", it's an infringement to a right. A gun is a THING, just like a Bible or a book. A thing that is Constitutionally protected to have. Why are you afraid of a thing? My guns have killed less people than Ted Kennedy's car.
"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." - H.L. Menchen