What is the point of owning guns?

[regexcellent]

There should be a bullet tax.

That's retarded. Criminals don't use very many bullets; it wouldn't stop them. The only people this would affect are legal gun owners.

[DaShi]

So dumb.

[regexcellent]

Last saturday I fired 100 shells of birdshot.

When I go to the rifle range I shoot an average of 50-70 rounds or so.

I go shooting usually about once a week.

Tell me, how many times do you think a mugger actually fires his weapon?

I'd like to see if you're willing to stop making ridiculous statements, and then when challenged, backing them up with empty ad-hominems and single emoticons.

[DaShi]

OK, I'm calling DL. No one can be this ridiculous. Not even me!

[regexcellent]

This coming from the user who can't write anything more in-depth than pathetic insults. When you actually write a cogent argument for something let me know.

[DaShi]

How can I possibly challenge the logic of "I fired fiddy bullets"?

How many of them were magic?

[regexcellent]

You completely missed the point.

The point was that my activity, which is totally legal, and consists of shooting flying clay disks, uses up a lot of ammunition and I would be hit hard by an ammo tax.

On the other hand the guy that tried to rob those air force cadets today has probably rarely or never fired whatever gun he had, and thus an ammo tax pretty much doesn't affect him at all.

I'm sorry you're too idiotic to get this concept without having it spelled out step by step for you.

[DaShi]

I got your point and addressed it.

[regexcellent]

No, you didn't, you said "So dumb."

**** it, you're going on ignore for good this time.

[DaShi]

In my defense, it was.

[MichaeltheGreat]

Even the armadillos got guns? Because a hell of a lot of that map doesn't have anything except dirt, scopions and armadillos. I figure the scorpions would have trouble with trigger pull with their little bitty hands.

[MichaeltheGreat]

The reason we don't have licensing and registration for guns is because the potential for abuse by the government is very very high.

Black helicopters and ATF going door to door? Seriously? Is there a tin foil hat smiley? This site needs one.

And as it turns out, the vast majority of guns used in crimes are already illegally owned anyway so licensing and registration wouldn't do anything to help that.

Which illegal ownership has been made much easier by decades of "gummint gon' try take mah gunz" paranoia about registration. There would still be illegal guns out there, not not near as many as are facilitated by the cash and carry private market.

(snip), nor are they prevented by grabbing criminals who are illegally carrying weapons.

So we should let criiminals illegally carrying guns go? Methinks you misspoke there.

[regexcellent]

Registration as a precursor to confiscation wouldn't require any black helicopters and it has happened elsewhere, but I'd like you to observe what happened with the Westchester Journal News recently. Anyway, I was just saying why groups like the NRA oppose it.

So we should let criiminals illegally carrying guns go? Methinks you misspoke there.

No, I mean it's difficult or impossible to catch and punish people who do it except as another charge to tack on.

In any case, most federal gun crimes get pleaded away for information on drug rings and the like. The DoJ doesn't prosecute very many violators that the ATF catches.

[DinoDoc]

Strawman

Is it?

[MichaeltheGreat]

Registration as a precursor to confiscation wouldn't require any black helicopters and it has happened elsewhere, but I'd like you to observe what happened with the Westchester Journal News recently. Anyway, I was just saying why groups like the NRA oppose it.

I know why they oppose it, but in reality, it's ludicrous in this country. However, since the NRA is industry supported, it's great for business to whip everyone into a frenzy of "buy now before the gummint tracks down and takes yore guns" I remember idiots campaigning on this idiocy back in the early 70s. It ain't gonna happen.


No, I mean it's difficult or impossible to catch and punish people who do it except as another charge to tack on.

In any case, most federal gun crimes get pleaded away for information on drug rings and the like. The DoJ doesn't prosecute very many violators that the ATF catches.[/QUOTE]