peter11937 wrote:
Some sanity here at last. If you think the AK on full auto is bad, try an M-14 A1 with the selector switch on full auto, that shoots the sky a lot! Filing down a sear might not give you what you think, tho, it might not fire at all.
Look at the news from the ME, those Mohammedans shoot the sky a whole hell of a lot. Saw one shooting a scoped AK but not using it.......Another was firing a HMG at an angle so high that it was useful only as indirect area fire......
Funny how we can't seem to beat them.
peter11937 wrote:
There are places in NYC, like Brighton beach, where arms are available daily and nightly, to anyone with the money. Certainly there are like places in every major city in the USA.
There's a place near Vegas like that. Been there a few times.
peter11937 wrote:
Not to mention casing the cops and isolated military armories are always vulnerable to theft or robbery.
That seems kind of stupid.
peter11937 wrote:
Limiting access to firearms to honest people does nothing to prevent crime or criminal violence whatever.
Why do you have to be so dramatic? You said "nothing", which is an extreme word because you're being dramatic about the issue. If you said "little" I would have agreed with you, because I think limiting access to firearms to honest people does
little to prevent crime. All it does is decrease the availability of firearms that can be taken from honest but careless gun owners.
But you know what? "Little" is better than "nothing". THAT is what gun-control is about. There *IS* no way to prevent crime entirely and we *KNOW* this, so it would be nice if your advocacy would stop assuming THAT is the object of gun control.
The other extreme aspect of your statement is the absence of any qualifier when you say "access to firearms". As if we want to cut off citizens from ALL firearms. :roll: That just isn't true.
It's human nature to get dramatic about things that we are attached to emotionally and as I've just pointed out, drama can lead to extreme language, which leads to inaccuracy, which is something people don't usually care about anyway when they're being emotional... which is usually fine. But genuine problems arise when you add people who are just naive, like the children that grow up with their father's drama ingrained in their minds and before you know it there's a whole generation of idiots that seriously think the drama is real.