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Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by LyndsySimon on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:03AM (#11290134)
Respectfully, what right do you have to determine my needs?

From a more practical perspective, what are you going to do about it? Are you proposing to take arms from the American people by force? How many deaths are acceptable to make that happen?

To be clear, I don't mean the above as a threat or anything of the sort. I'm merely pointing out the certain result of a policy of disarmament, and the hypocrisy of using force to render a population defenseless.

Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by millzlane on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:38AM (#11290423)
Not to mention that self defense is a natural negative right. Gun ownership falls in the same category. My negative right to defend myself with a gun, from someone wishing to do me egregious or fatal harm doesn't affect anyone else.

There are negative rights and positive rights. We all could learn a little more about them. See 2.1.8 @ http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rights/#2.1

Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by salgernon on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @12:15PM (#11290731)
> Are you proposing to take arms from the American people by force

To the extent that libertarians believe that taxes are extracted by force (I usually see this written as "violence") then yes. If each gun carried a tax sufficient to mitigate it's societal cost, and if each cartridge were an order of magnitude more expensive, we would be done with this issue in 100 years.

It will take a long time, but it won't get done if we don't start.

(Preventively - yes, you can 3D print yourself a handgun, and likely blow your hand off, and reload your own bullets. At that point your personal time doing that work is a proxy for the taxes you would have payed.)

Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by pjc50 on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:39AM (#11290434)
It would never be an overnight event, it would take a generation of ratcheting restrictions. In that sense the "slippery slope" pro-gun people are right; the end point of incremental measures has to be a country with far fewer guns.

But it looks just as feasible from an ideological point of view as ending white supremacism in the US.

Re:Toddlers Kill More People in the USA (with guns) Than Ter... by oconnore on Tuesday March 15, 2016 @11:48AM (#11290493)
Ugh, the "ratcheting restrictions" tactic is why we can't have ANY compromise on gun laws. The NRA is not stupid.