WinterBorn
Diamond Member
Your question and subsequent responses only show your unwillingness to have an open and honest debate.
First, criminals have and will always find a way to get weapons illegally. This is not just a U.S. problem this is a World problem. However, that does not mean that certain provisos would not be prudent concerning personally owed firearms in today's society.
Owning a weapon is part of the U.S. culture, instilled as a necessity to defend oneself and property from since the first arrived on the eastern seaboard to settlers traveling westward. And the U.S. was founded with the idea of having only a small peacetime military. In the 1700's it was NECESSARY for citizens to own weapons in order for states to be able to form militias. The wealthiest citizens even owned cannons, that is why many of the colonial time artillery units were referred to by a name (Hamilton's battery) vice a numerical designation and state (i.e. 5th Maine Infantry Regiment) However, times changes and so must the people that live in them. There are no absolutes in this debate. To think that an all out ban on any type weapon is idiocy. Gun proliferation within the society is too far gone. It is also idiocy and utter stupidity to void any weapons restrictions currently in place. SO........
Require that a person be earn and be issued a firearms license in order to legally buy, own, carry, or use a weapon. Requirement would be to attend a course (much like getting a drivers license) and have to update periodically.
Ban fully automatic weapons (already the case in most of the U.S.) there is absolutely NO NEED for an individual to own/possess and automatic weapon.
As for those that chose to not abide by the enacted laws, they must be dealt with individually and swiftly. Adding additional law/restrictions/prohibitions effectively accomplishes nothing.
Whether I need something or not is irrelevant. You wish to limit what I can do. Explain exactly what these limitations will accomplish and why.
What is it exactly that you wish to do with an automatic weapon? Please explain.
You can't go hunting with it, doesn't make you any safer in defending yourself or your property (unless you consider the impeding zombie apocalypse). The only reason for a person in our current day society would WANT an automatic weapon, is to commit such atrocities like what happened in the movie theater in Denver.
By licensing an individual and including the training of proper use, society as a whole is safer and any violations are more efficiently handled by the authorities.
I am guessing that when you refer to an "automatic weapon" you mean an autoloader, not an actual automatic weapon. There was no automatic weapon used in the theater in Colorado. There was only an autoloader, which jammed after firing only a few rounds.