(11-07-2020, 04:09 PM)NeptuneBeachBum Wrote:

(11-07-2020, 04:03 PM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: #1 Maybe, maybe not. It depends on what type of gun you own. Harris said she agreed with Beto O'Rourke's idea about going door to door and confiscating semi-automatic rifles from people, even though they were bought legally by law abiding citizens. In my book, that is stealing and that would not be tolerated. People are not gonna stand by and let the government steal their property.

I would differentiate "semi-automatic" from "assault" weapons.  I am an avid gun owner... but I do not want assault weapons in the hands of people that should not have them.  Those should have a higher standard.  

The analogy I would use is with other countries having the ability to have their own military to protect themselves.  I am all for it... it should be their right.  But do you want them all to have access to nuclear weapons that can have grave consequences to a massive amount of people?  Absolutely not.  Its the same concept with assault weapons; albeit on a very different scale, obviously.  If you believe everyone should have the right to own an assault weapon, applying that same logic on a larger scale would say all countries should be able to access nuclear weapons.  Same argument, larger scale.

I would too. Unfortunately, Democrats don't. They keep calling any kind of AR, AK and several other types of semi-automatic rifles "assault weapons," which they are not. An assault weapon is a fully automatic rifle which is already banned or one capable of being almost fully automatic with the addition of a bump stock. O'Rourke and Harris were referring to AR and AK type weapons which 10's of millions of people already own.  Almost everyone I know in my area owns some version of a semi-automatic rifle, whether it be an AR-15 or older versions of a Russian, Romanian or Chinese AK-47's. These are all law abiding citizens with no mental deficiencies and clean arrest records, yet Harris has agreed with O'Rourke's plan to steal them from people. That is wrong. I'm all for keeping them out of the hands of the mentally ill and people who have violent crimes in their backgrounds, but I will never agree with punishing everyone for the actions of a few. 

There is a difference between what you are saying and what Harris says. You are saying not everyone should own a semi-automatic weapon. I agree. They should definitely be kept out of the hands of the mentally ill and people with violent past. That I fully support, but Harris thinks NO ONE should own one of these types of weapons and I clearly disagree with this 1000%.

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