Recent content by Mathurin

Im gonna have to stop, I was offered a chance to work more hours yesterday so im gonna have to drop off to make sure I get enough sleep, I might drop into the boards as time allows but we have pretty much played this out. Regardless, the only thing I would respond to is that I dont trust all...

To everyone who wants to dramatically control guns. Gun crime in the US is almost entirely in the domain of the drug gangs, so initiatives like licensing and registration, even outright bans, will not prevent a significant amount of gun crime, because law abiding owners, for the most part...

If they are talking to me solely because I am the only on the books gun owner in town, then its profiling at best. You are thinking in very binary terms, as if you can know where all the guns are, and thusly who might be doing the shootings. But you cant even do that in britain. They arent...

I vote libertarian, it changes little. So its for harrassing gun owners now? In the US we believe in very strong privacy rights and robust due process, they will question everyone around, if there is a reason to suspect me then they will find it, but this registry idea will just send them...

Humans are dangerous means just that, if you want to live in a free society you have to put up with a certain level of danger from other human beings, because the only way to prevent it is to control people. Those levels of control have frequently been used in the past to gain and maintain...

And this plan is exactly why statements such as "we dont want to ban guns, just control them alittle" and other calls for 'reasonable gun control' mean absolutely nothing to american gun owners, and this is why they fight even the most minor gun control laws you can think up, they know its a...

Humans are dangerous, guns are just tools. Very few modern firearms are designed to inflict bodily damage, well the ones in civilian hands anyway, they are designed to target shoot Shooting cans is actually very good target practice btw. You have shown yourself sir. You arent...

The government is usually composed of the elites, even my elected representatives are usually from the elite class, only their wealth allows them to run for office, with few. I am no happier allowing these people control of arms or speech than I am a king of old, thats the point of a...

And I suggest its a power to great to be limited to the elites The main reason for drivers licenses is to ensure education, that everyone on the road knows the rules by which they should operate, and how liability will fall if they dont. I cant imagine why a gun license should be hard to...

A firearm does not need to be carefully stored and maintained, if thrown in a ditch it degrades, the worst it will do is slightly pollute the ditch with rust. A nuke leaks radiation, and without careful maintenence and storage can kill or poison many. Not true of guns Firearms do not react...

It doesnt have to mean anything to you, until it means nothing to 2/3rd to 3/4 of the US, it has force of law. Are you suggesting that using military arms to hunt greatly harms the environment, as opposed to 'civilian' weapons I think you are trying to suggest that military arms cause...

Ah, so you would do it by violating privacy without due process, marvelous, now you are violating 2 parts of the bill of rights. You have indicated you are an archer and do target practice, do you only use one bow for that? Guns are also used for target practice, its very similar to bows...

You dont see why? Here is a hint, the 2nd ammendment was not created to protect the right to hunt. Its more than that though, I prefer military firearm designs over civilian ones, even for hunting. They are stronger and better suited to rough treatment, they are easier to breakdown and...

Correction, gun control does not inherently mean banning guns. It can and frequently does mean banning guns. Oh, so all you want to do is license and register, gee, that seems fine. Except thats all that New York, Washington DC and Chicago claimed they wanted to do, just license and...

Um no, there are not more similarities than differences, the only similarity is "they both kill people" Im not arguing that, the people had to be willing to demand democracy, much like the arab spring. Yet guns were a vital part of it, were the american revolution fought without guns, with...