Karl Streiger, on 25 July 2016 - 09:59 PM, said:
Heffay, you are a responsible gun owner and I accept that you should be allowed to have all these items. I don't have the same interest as you do with regard to sport shooting or hunting, but I realize it's important to you.
Or at least responsible in 99.99% of all cases.
I thought I already said such things
And I'm pretty sure this also is fiting for 99.75% of all legal gun owners in the US.
And car accidents is killing more people.
So we have a huge death toll on our highways so the best way is to prohibit cars that move faster than 100kph.
Of course it wouldn't work - accident deaths would still happen but maybe the number would be reduced.
Maybe this is a good metaphor to weapon regulation. What do you think
The best way to prevent deaths on the highways from cars isn't limiting the speed. It's self driving cars. Which, fortunately, will also solve drunk driving and texting while driving issues.
A 100 kph speed limit is another attempt at controlling behavior that doesn't actually solve the problem. It may actually make it worse. For example, when laws against texting and driving were enacted, the number of texting based accidents *increased*. It's because the law didn't stop people from doing it. They just moved the phone down to their lap so they wouldn't be seen, meaning their eyes were even further from the road.
So let's move 5 years down the road when self driving cars are much more common. Should someone in a fully autonomous car not be allowed to text? The person in a self driving car who is texting *is* being responsible, and should be allowed to use their phones any way they want. Oh, and have an assault beer or two, because who cares, the car is driving and probably doing a better job than the person would be stone cold sober.
And yes, we can all break. But the people getting shot in this country generally aren't the responsible gun owners snapping and shooting people. You can give a hypothetical anecdote like that, but it doesn't change the fact that it just *doesn't* happen at any meaningful level.
You're attempting to cater towards people's fears to try to sell your point. Keep in mind that this is something Trump does as well. It's the basis of his whole campaign. I'd like to think you're better than Trump.