Thread: Whats your opinion on automatic weapons?

Originally Posted by straightrazorheaven

I don't think there is a readily governable method of distributing firearms to those who will use them properly, so why allow anybody to have them?

Maybe because here in the USA we live in a free country and our founding fathers, after defeating the British empire, gave us the 2nd amendment.

Originally Posted by northpaw

I mentioned it because I found it interesting, since I'd always assumed that auto/semi-auto referred to the firing, not the loading. Feel free to disagree with Wikipedia, and to explain why, or not. I'm not personally invested in it in the slightest.

I understand. I just have seen too many errors on Wiki over the years that it has been online. If something is important for me to learn about , I first study the teacher. I don't know much about anything in life, but what little I do know, came from great teachers.

'We start carrying semi automatics, they buy automatics, we start wearing Kevlar, they buy armor piercing rounds...'

Batman Begins

I am sure the people of Colorado are enjoying their freedom. What you are saying is that because of something that happened in the distant past, you should maintain that right for all of eternity? There are hundreds of laws in every country that should be rescinded, times change and so should the legal system.

Originally Posted by JimmyHAD

Maybe because here in the USA we live in a free country and our founding fathers, after defeating the British empire, gave us the 2nd amendment.

So what does "arms" mean, then? Huge, unwieldy muskets?
It's just whatever we agree that it means, right?

Originally Posted by straightrazorheaven

You can change the law, gun amnesties really do work. There would be people who fought it but if you change the law, the law is changed. People have to get used to it, make sure people know they can turn their guns in, and that if they don't they will be given lengthy prison sentences for not complying.

While I'm certain that more stringent gun control laws will eventually be enacted here in the US there will be revolution in this country before the masses hand them over.

We Americans have a proud history or being stubborn bastards. I grew up in Massachusetts but down here in Virginia the American Civil war is still often referred to as "the war of Northern agrression". Going in to hollows of the mountains in the area life hasn't changed much in the last hundred years. I know many people with no running water or indoor plumbing. I grow some of my own food and kill as much of it as possible (hell, this year I've chased two squirrels down and killed them with my pocket knife. The buggers were getting in to my house and I chased them out) but these folks either raise their own cattle / pigs/ sheep or shoot a lot of game. The government will get their lives before their freedom.

Originally Posted by Martin103

In light of another massacre in the us, what your opinion on the right to bear automatic weapons like the ak47 and ar15?

The true shame in this fiasco is that Colorado is a right to carry state, so why did no one stop this madman, because the theater had a no guns allowed policy. They insured that their patrons would be victims, one armed citizen could have put quick end to the "Massacre" but instead of "an armed society being a polite society", many in our society insist on disarmament of the lawful citizen in favor of them being prey for the ruthless and insane. How many dead and how many wounded for the sake of someone elses whimsical view of a perfect world?

BTW, This thread is being watched. Feel free to advance any viewpoint you wish but be polite about it. If the topic upsets you, let it go and enjoy one of the many guns and razor threads in "The finer things in life" forum.

As long as they are purchased and acquired within the boundaries of the law, I have no problem with it. Guns don't kill people.
People kill people. We have the right to keep and bear arms. Those "arms," aren't specified.

"The government will get their lives before their freedom."

I think this kind of says it all. Is taking away their guns really taking away their freedom. Think of the masses that won't go out at night for fear of being killed in the inner cities. Surely those people have had their freedom taken away by the government already. Freedom is a term I see banded around a lot by Americans. From an outsiders perspective, there are greater things to fight over than the "freedom" to carry weapons.