tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post7806517700026118098..comments2024-02-05T03:41:13.688+01:00Comments on Mikeb302000: Military-Style Guns (Formerly Known as Assault Weapons)Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-7202456784862246612011-06-28T21:26:30.415+02:002011-06-28T21:26:30.415+02:00It's not. It's about what's right and ...<i>It's not. It's about what's right and wrong.</i><br /><br />Nope. Body counts are irrelevant. If you don't like the result of our culture, help fix the culture. <br /><br />Right or wrong is basically 'rational basis' and been used to justify gun control since Miller. <br /><br />It is unlikely to be held as the level of scrutiny when the case gets there in a year or two. Its about what's constitutional and what's not.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-77311737050177384652011-06-01T12:37:48.184+02:002011-06-01T12:37:48.184+02:00Anonymous and AztecRed seem to think this is a pop...Anonymous and AztecRed seem to think this is a popularity contest all of a sudden. It's not. It's about what's right and wrong.<br /><br />TS is right. You over-zealous types have no sense of humor. (I think that's what he said.)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09806175370305006933noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-25303068999310409082011-05-30T23:50:54.974+02:002011-05-30T23:50:54.974+02:00"If the gun fires one of those scary, pointy ..."If the gun fires one of those scary, pointy bullets, it's banned."<br /><br />You guys don't recognize Mike's sense of humor by now?<br /><br />I find it funnier that Steven Gunn is a gunbanner.TSnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-563241809649739952011-05-30T18:08:16.378+02:002011-05-30T18:08:16.378+02:00Since the Heller and McDonald cases were decided, ...Since the Heller and McDonald cases were decided, it is unlikely that a federal ban on semi-automatic rifles would pass Constitutional muster (not that one had a chance of passing during the last congress, let alone now).<br /><br />BTW - Such bans are already being tested in Parker v. District of Columbia (awaiting decision).<br /><br />That said, 2 points. So called semi-automatic rifles are used in such a small fraction of crime, that any ban would have all but zero effect.<br /><br />Second, while the media paints such rifles as some dangerous fringe category, they are in common use. The AR platform is the most common/popular rifle purchased today. Its as common as the lever action 30-30 of yesteryear. Plenty of people use them for target shooting, hunting, etc.<br /><br />Once Parker is decided in Federal court (SCOTUS within next 2 years), its a done deal. Precedent often lasts decades, if not forever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-61376361207827347372011-05-30T10:52:32.205+02:002011-05-30T10:52:32.205+02:00""I don’t know how anyone can justify ha...""I don’t know how anyone can justify having one of those weapons," says Steven Gunn, a spokesman for the Gun Violence Protection Center of Utah."<br /><br />It's called a "Bill of Rights", not a "Bill of Things You Can Justify".<br /><br />"The problem seems to always get back to this: how can we distinguish these undesireable weapons from the others which have more-or-less the same characteristics?"<br /><br />The sales and popularity of said weapons disprove your belief that they are undesirable.<br /><br />"If the gun fires one of those scary, pointy bullets, it's banned. Would that work for ya?"<br /><br />No.AztecRedhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00027951757285806109noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6314891743204395487.post-79669131038264653422011-05-30T09:39:31.880+02:002011-05-30T09:39:31.880+02:00And again you prove just how stupid you are, plea...And again you prove just how stupid you are, please can you show me a picture of a bullet single bullet that you don't find scary?<br /><br />I could show you probably 50 rifles (not "assault rifles") that fire that round......<br /><br />But again its not about making the public safer, IdiotAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com