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Thread #69432   Message #1178216
Posted By: beardedbruce
05-May-04 - 03:53 AM
Thread Name: BS: 50 Caliber Sniper Guns.....
Subject: RE: BS: 50 Caliber Sniper Guns.....
I stand corrected on More...

But have you read the Founding Fathers on this? The right to bear arms was one of the reasons that they fought the Revolution. And if you use that logic, WHO DECIDES which rights are fundemental? There have been limitations for quite a while- on all the rights. But that does not mean the right should be casually dismissed. Perhaps if more concern was given to what people did, rather than what they had, there would be less of a concern. IT IS ALREADY AGAINST THE LAW to shot down aircraft, or people, or blow up things: Why remove the rights of a citizen to legally own a weapon, when the criminal can obtain it with ease? THERE IS NO WAY to prevent people/groups/nations from making explosives, or a munber of other weapons. What can be done is to make the cost of USING them prohibitively high. The problem with terrorists is that there is no cost high enough to stop them, that we are willing to exact.