[quote=enron_by_the_sea]So are you trying to say that Chinese people before Mao or Jewish-German people before the time of Hitler were the societies where semi-automatic guns were freely available and universally owned?[/quote]Strawman Argument, though with Jewish-German people, they were readily available.. though not universally owned. It is a sore point for old Jews from Germany.. The JDL is very anti gun regulation.
[quote=enron_by_the_sea]Just because Mao and Hitler said something, should it make it true? Besides Mao said “power” not “liberty”.[/quote]My is that every splitting a hair. The truth of it is in its demonstration during their rule and the number of deaths of the unarmed innocents who could do nothing but die. Mao rose to power through the ‘point of a gun’.. and then banned guns so that he himself would not be displaced.
[quote=enron_by_the_sea]I am asking why this NRA’s love with semi-automatic weapons & high capacity magazines, allergy to registry or any notion of liability for anyone?[/quote]It is not necessarily love.. but an issue of encroachment/infringement upon a Constitutional right.
If the citizenry has to defend itself against the government, then the citizens will have to go against such things as the Mini-Gun(30cal rifle round, fired at 6000 rounds per minute), M2 Browning(50 cal BMG with armor piercing, incendiary rounds.. fire at up to 800 rounds per minute – these rounds can go through brick walls and 1 inch plate steel), M240 (Can include a grenade launcher, fires 30 cal 7.62 at almost 1000 rounds per minute). I have fired these.. and they scare the s**t out of me in terms of thinking of being on the other end.
Now try to imagine dealing with an errant government and using an old bolt-action against this.. doesn’t work.
In terms of fast rate of fire, a semi-auto is not much faster than a revolver for a knowledgeable person. In fact, there used to be ‘revolver-rifles’ before the semi-auto mechanism was perfected. It is also possible to reload a revolver using an autoloader within a few seconds. Some revolvers also had replaceable/removable cylinders (ie. Peacemakers) making it almost the same as a clip. Therefore banning semi-auto really doesn’t get you anything.
What I find interesting about the gun-regulation people, is the complete lack of knowledge on weapons that they possess. Most of the mass killings have been close up, and none of the guns being banned is the most dangerous close up. The most dangerous at 45 feet and under is a shotgun. There are 8 rounds per shell of 00 buckshot, about the size of a 38 caliber bullet. That means every time it fires once, it is equivalent to a 38 caliber handgun being fired 8 times at the same target. Don’t even think of what the slug is like.
Of course it doesn’t look ‘nasty’ like an ‘assault’ rifle.. and it is not as useful when protecting against an errant government.
Finally registration: There are several instances of where gun registration was later used to confiscate weapons.. including more recently in New York.
