12-29-2018, 01:42 AM
montana Wrote:I see we have moved from moderator to critic. OK I will play. If there were no restrictions on firearms, perhaps most of the innocent people that have been slaughtered in gun free zones would still be alive because they would not have been fish in a barrel. If there were no restrictions on firearms, perhaps the thousands of rapes, car jackings, muggings and home evasions would not have resulted as most do in places that restrict guns. Perhaps the hundreds of millions murdered by democide would have never been so pervasive since people in government would not have had the exclusive of the tools of force. If there were no restrictions on firearms, there would have never been any Ruby Ridge, Waco Texas, or Oklahoma city bombing. If there were no restrictions on firearms, perhaps there would have never been any 911, and the longest war the US has ever been in. Perhaps John Adams was correct when he stated our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Perhaps what I just wrote is pure bunk, I guess that depends on the most basic of human rights, having an opinion. Conjecture is just that, conjecture. I agree, getting emotional loses arguments. Getting emotional over an attorney defending gun rights on a 2ndA forum, "who has worked as both prosecutor and defender for many decades" by slinging insults based solely on personal, opinionated, emotions does not strengthen ones case.
Montana:
Talk about emotional arguments that are purely speculative, read your own paragraph. The one about the gun free zone has to top the list. You are assuming falsely that most Americans would carry guns if there were no restrictions placed on them. That wasn't even true in the 'Old West'. You actually think that things would have been different if the Ruby Ridge blaster had a M-60 MG instead of his pistol or shotgun? Maybe so. That would have been resolved with one pass from an Apache.
One other thing. I surely will criticize stuff when I see it. Nothing saying as a mod I can't take part in things.
LR55