The President's Plan to Reduce Gun Violence

Re:The President's Plan to Reduce Gun Violence by coley on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @07:45PM (#5070155)

They wouldn't. The drone comment, and protect ourselves comment were separate ideas. I think he's trying to bring to light that our country completely stopped for a month after Sandy Hook, but we ignore all of the innocent lives(including children) that get taken by drone strikes.

Assault weapons don't stand a chance against drones, but I'm willing to bet they out number them and have a lot more trained operators.

My AR-15 was around $900 when I bought it(~2 years ago). Now the same gun is going for $1000+, and there's not even new legislation yet. If these weapons get banned, the criminals that all ready own them will see a gain in their net worth.

I don't see how raising the value of 'criminal' assets is going to help anyone.

Paranoid is an easy answer. A much more difficult answer is that our country has used it's excessive force on the unarmed before. What's to stop them once their governing body(the citizens) is unarmed?

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Re:The President's Plan to Reduce Gun Violence by bithive123 on Wednesday January 16, 2013 @08:13PM (#5070259)

Guns may help individuals defend themselves from other individuals (who may or may not be working for the government) in specific interactions (being mugged / taken to the gulag) but surely their raw numbers don't make The Citizenry safer from government oppression. That has to come from somewhere else; leading many people to conclude that "having guns" doesn't protect us from the government any more than "holding leaders accountable" or "having an educated populace".

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