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 Michael Medved

If You Don't Like Assault Weapons, Don't Get One

March 19, 2013 @ 2:00 pm

Gun control advocates love the line that "nobody needs an assault weapon for self-defense" or "no one needs a clip with more than seven rounds." The best answer to these arguments is that if someone feels no need for a so-called assault weapon, then that person should feel no obligation whatever to get one.

But in America, we don't get to make such decisions for our neighbors. If you're worried about the guy next door getting an assault weapon, would you really be significantly less worried if he got a shotgun or pistol? What makes any gun dangerous isn't the way it operates but the person who's using it. That's why the only sensible gun control involves blocking certain people from getting any guns at all, rather than blocking law-abiding citizens and good neighbors from getting certain types of guns.

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  • dregstudios wrote...
    Living in a Society of Fear
    March 19, 2013 4:45 pm
    As much of America holds a death grip on their guns, we should be asking why we are so dependent on the idea of protecting ourselves and from what? We live in a post-9/11 society in which fear is bred 24 hours a day through television and media. Other countries with similar social structures such as the UK don’t have this problem and don’t have guns in the hands of every man, woman and child. Read more about Living in a Society of Fear and how we are at War with Ourselves at http://dregstudiosart.blogspot.com/2011/09/living-in-society-of-fear-ten-years.html
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  • sportsguru wrote...
    dregstudios
    March 20, 2013 6:16 am
    That was a good blog post.
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  • Cigarillo wrote...
    @Dreg
    March 20, 2013 8:44 pm
    Who doesn't like the idea of protecting themselves? Who doesn't like the concept of self-reliance? I live in far less fear than my unarmed neigbors, who I never hesitate to help when they need it. The hog-leg on my hip has insured my safe return to the small corner of the world that I'm responsible for twice.

    What any of this has to do with your hard0n for the patriot act/Iraq is the real mystery here. I don't think I know ANYONE in favor of the PA, especially the gun crowd that's been leary of the feds for years.

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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    Don't like abortion?
    March 20, 2013 7:39 am
    Don't get one. Don't like gay marriage? Don't marry someone of the same sex. Don't like contraception? Don't use it.
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  • ron prevost wrote...
    Don't believe in God?
    March 20, 2013 8:11 am
    Don't try to tell the church what to do.
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  • Clearwater3 wrote...
    Wouldn't think of it...
    March 20, 2013 11:42 am
    ...now if only the church(s) and their self proclaimed acolytes would afford me the same respect.
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  • SeattleD wrote...
    Fox News was interviewing some lady
    March 21, 2013 6:39 pm
    She was saying she shakes alot when she's scared and her aim isn't too good so she needs a 100 round clip because it might take that many bullets to hit an intruder.

    So if an intruder breaks into her house you do not want to be her dog, her cat, her child, her neighbor, or just somebody wandering by while she's spraying bullets all over the place.

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