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People kill people, guns fling a projectile via explosive combustion out of a handheld metal tube.
My analogy is sound. You propose banning my ownership of guns due to the POSSIBLE actions of other people and myself. If you want to do that, work to overturn the second amenedment.
Please point out where I proposed anything of the sort.
In fact, I'm against gun laws for the same reason I'm against abortion laws... they are probably unenforceable.
I do think a little common sense, like doing a background check on you when you come in to get a new gun, would be a good idea. Or requiring you to take a mandated safety course.
So would using the government's economic pressure to get better behavior out of the gun manufacturers, such as stating that the government will not buy from companies that have irresponsible business practices like selling 100 round clips to the civilian market.
SO why not a background check when you publish a blog post, or a newspaper article? We already have some saying things like that crap youtube movie were the cause of violence, so why not restrict the 1st amendment just as you propose to restrict the 2nd?
Also banning 100 round clips is meaningless, as even when they are used they tend to jam in 10-20 rounds anyway. So ban 10 round clips? Ban reloading when you are already committiing another crime?