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<blockquote data-quote="Werewolf" data-source="post: 1288881" data-attributes="member: 239"><p>Slippery slope...</p><p> </p><p>Who gets to decide who isn't and who is responsible? What criteria are used to decide what responsible is?</p><p> </p><p>We started down that slope beginning with the 1934 NFA and that resulted in 20,000+ gun control laws. How successful have those been in preventing crimes commited with a firearm?</p><p> </p><p>See where that's gotten us? And we don't just do it with guns we do it with everything the most egregious of which were prohibition and now the war on drugs.</p><p> </p><p>The dad burned goobermint don't belong in the morality business nor the decidin' who's responsible business. And that's all laws that prohibit the posession of things do; legislate morality and/or assume we'd all harm society if allowed to posess certain items. I'm not a criminal because I posess a certain item; are you?</p><p> </p><p>The goobermint should punish action not posession. The posession of something with the potential to do harm isn't a crime if it causes no harm to society. Using an item posessed to cause harm to society is a crime against society.</p><p> </p><p>And all making it harder to get certain items does is generate black markets and produce folks willing to take the risk (usually in the form of a crime by action) to acquire prohibited items because of the high rewards that black markets represent.</p><p> </p><p>In short prohibiting items or making them harder to get generates more harm to society than the prohibiting prevents. Gun control doesn't work. Drug control doesn't work. Government control of anything DOESN'T WORK!</p><p> </p><p>In addition any law abiding citizen who believes in personal responsibility and freedom should not only resent the government for its insistence on taking those away but absolutely abhor it for doing so.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Werewolf, post: 1288881, member: 239"] Slippery slope... Who gets to decide who isn't and who is responsible? What criteria are used to decide what responsible is? We started down that slope beginning with the 1934 NFA and that resulted in 20,000+ gun control laws. How successful have those been in preventing crimes commited with a firearm? See where that's gotten us? And we don't just do it with guns we do it with everything the most egregious of which were prohibition and now the war on drugs. The dad burned goobermint don't belong in the morality business nor the decidin' who's responsible business. And that's all laws that prohibit the posession of things do; legislate morality and/or assume we'd all harm society if allowed to posess certain items. I'm not a criminal because I posess a certain item; are you? The goobermint should punish action not posession. The posession of something with the potential to do harm isn't a crime if it causes no harm to society. Using an item posessed to cause harm to society is a crime against society. And all making it harder to get certain items does is generate black markets and produce folks willing to take the risk (usually in the form of a crime by action) to acquire prohibited items because of the high rewards that black markets represent. In short prohibiting items or making them harder to get generates more harm to society than the prohibiting prevents. Gun control doesn't work. Drug control doesn't work. Government control of anything DOESN'T WORK! In addition any law abiding citizen who believes in personal responsibility and freedom should not only resent the government for its insistence on taking those away but absolutely abhor it for doing so. [/QUOTE]
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