At some point, we have to stop the hysteria and think. Freedom is messy, chaotic, sometimes dangerous and requires responsibility. It's also vastly preferable to the alternative.
We should be extremely reluctant to trade any freedom for an illusion of safety.
"Illusion of safety"? So, if I want to have a surface to air missile, I should have the freedom to play with a SAM in my backyard which is adjacent to the airport?
"Stop the hysteria" An odd comment. Those of us who want to see common sense guns controls, mostly have never experienced the lose of the parents in Newtown or Parkland or Columbine or Virginia Tech. Speaking for myself, I'm not hysterical when I've posted the common sense examples of gun control, i.e. licensing, registration, background checks, sales records, etc.
And yet when I've posted such controls in detail, the response from those opposed to any form of gun control is obsessive and hysterical.
You can't make a criminal do any of those things, you can't even prosecute them for failing to do them. Why do you only want to impose your conditions on the law abiding?
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