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Originally Posted by joeydb
Everything is legal that is not expressly prohibited.
A purpose is not necessary at all. Like pet rocks and wallpaper.
But most gun owners do have one or more purposes. Most popular are self defense, home defense, target shooting (they do have automatic rifle competitions for that), just having fun with it at shooting range...
I guess here is the discriminator - guns, even automatic rifles, can be used for sport, hobbies and defensively. That would not be true of explosives, which are rightly banned outside of industry and the military, or other more destructive weaponry.
Where we disagree is, I think you're saying "Ban it unless there is a purpose to allow it." I'm saying "Allow it unless there is a reason to ban it." It sounds like a subtle difference but it's not.
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people want hard core drugs. people want child porn. people want sex slaves. i still want my tank.
what's that got to do with it? i want it, so i should have it? of course not. many things are regulated, restricted, etc. why do guns get a pass? and there is a line drawn already on them. i don't have rpg's. the neighbor doesn't have sam's.