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<blockquote data-quote="Gideon" data-source="post: 1062564" data-attributes="member: 7898"><p>The two instances weren't related literally or cited as such, however, we have to draw that line, because the Bonus Army is the only event involving people who would be effected by the NFA to occur near the time of its creation.</p><p></p><p>If the NFA was made to stop organized crime, it would have been a ban, or a much higher tax on those weapons it regulated. When the Thompson SMG was $10, and they added a $200 tax that could easily be afforded still by rich crime syndicates. How convenient that they should make a law about crime that doesn't stop any crime JUST AFTER 5 divisions worth of trained and disgruntled (and easily armed with $10 automatic weapons) soldiers had been bivouacked in Washington for a while.</p><p></p><p>The point being, that gun laws in the U.S. have never been about stopping criminals. So when you pull out that old argument, "Criminals are gonna get guns anyways, so guns laws make no sense." Just remember that the people on the other end are thinking, "We know, we aren't worried about criminals, you scare us way more because you may actually be justified in using these weapons".</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gideon, post: 1062564, member: 7898"] The two instances weren't related literally or cited as such, however, we have to draw that line, because the Bonus Army is the only event involving people who would be effected by the NFA to occur near the time of its creation. If the NFA was made to stop organized crime, it would have been a ban, or a much higher tax on those weapons it regulated. When the Thompson SMG was $10, and they added a $200 tax that could easily be afforded still by rich crime syndicates. How convenient that they should make a law about crime that doesn't stop any crime JUST AFTER 5 divisions worth of trained and disgruntled (and easily armed with $10 automatic weapons) soldiers had been bivouacked in Washington for a while. The point being, that gun laws in the U.S. have never been about stopping criminals. So when you pull out that old argument, "Criminals are gonna get guns anyways, so guns laws make no sense." Just remember that the people on the other end are thinking, "We know, we aren't worried about criminals, you scare us way more because you may actually be justified in using these weapons". [/QUOTE]
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