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Originally Posted by TerminatorX5
I am not a celebrity... in post #50 I am holding a fully automatic assault rifle in my hands... i have used AK-74 earlier in my life... I have used some small caliber weapons in my life... not against people, all was in training environment...
And knowing what those weapons can do, I am still against them in the hands of general population... while it is possible to kill with bare hands, the use of killing tools makes the killing so much easier... so, it is only natural to restrict the sale of those things - the other day i wanted to buy a bottle of champagne, but the sales clerk said, sorry, it is past midnight... wow... strict alcohol rules... if i buy booze after midnight - i am in trouble... if i buy booze for an underage, i am in trouble... if i buy him a weapon - no biggy deal...
weapons have serial numbers, cars have VINs... we could have national registry (or state registry) for those things... and the notion, that next step will be taking those weapons away is nonsense - in 200 years nobody took them away, and i am sure in the next 200 years will not be much different...
besides, the weapon bearers should serve in the state sponsored militia anyways...
Does all of that make me a hypocrat?
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It makes you no less of a hypocrite than me, a gun owner who believes in the Second Amendment and ownership of so-called "assault weapons", in saying I think there should be regulation and some people should not be allowed to owner or possess guns. You being someone familiar with and required to possess guns for work purposes and having views that call for controls of civilian ownership is not hypocrisy. The only thing I would point out with your post is that you are holding a "fully automatic" weapon and that is not available to the general public. You are holding it, presumably based on your previous posts, as part of Department of Defense operations. I want to mention this because some people think that someone can run out and buy a "machine gun" easily. They cannot. Federal and state law have very, very strict laws about this class (Class III) of weapons.
Why the celebrities are hypocrites is because they are very publicly and very politically demanding something be done to end gun violence yet what they do very publicly and with tremendous recompense, is portray, depict, perpetuate, and glamorize very violent acts committed with the very guns they demand be legislated up to and including outright bans. As I continually say, it's not about the guns. It's about behavior. It's about societal views, norms, mores, and attitudes. I don't think it is remotely possible to end gun violence without considering the kind of violence these celebrities make their millions on.