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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: combjelly who wrote (693423)1/17/2013 9:07:39 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 1575439
 
Hi combjelly; Re: "Yeah. A bolt action rifle against a fully automatic assault rifle is an even match."

It was the Allies who created the extremely restrictive gun laws in Germany both in 1919 and 1945.

But as far as using bolt action rifles against fully automatic assault rifles, that problem doesn't come up in the context of the gun owning public.

The privately owned fully automatic weapons are mostly held by members of the public who are quite right wing. Trust me on this. And the publicly owned fully automatic weapons are controlled by the military and police. They're also quite right of center. So there's no need for guns to protect us from the government.

That private ownership of semi-auto weapons in the US is for defense against law breakers. They're for protection from very high levels of crime.

Most of the time law breakers are not much of a problem. But guns aren't for "most of the time". The US is in difficult economic conditions. These are the kind of conditions that sometimes lead to real violence.

The areas in the US that are now high crime also have high levels of (mostly illegal) gun ownership. The basic principle is that it's better to be "tried by 12" than "carried by 6".

-- Carl
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