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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Wayners who wrote (95635)	4/20/2007 11:29:43 AM
From: American Spirit	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 173976

When I was a kid no one thought of buying Glocks or high-powered weapons. A kid like me was presented Dad's old hunting rifle at age 16 or so and taken out and trained how to use it. Maybe I never killed any animals with it, but as an average American kid I was trained and knew how to use a rifle. There was no need for Glocks or semi-automatic rifles or combat hardware. There was no inpetus to buy hollow-points or get banana clips. It's gotten so so insane these days, and the fault lies mainly with the NRA promoting not only the culture of heavy weaponry but the ease with which kids or anyone can get ahold of them. In that sense it's no different than if heroin were legalized. It would be very easy these days for anyone without a criminal background to walk into a store, get armed then go out and killed whomever he/she wants. That is insane. There is role for government regulation in our society, and one of the main roles is to make sure that the deadliest products are very hard to get.