On 2/27/2010 10:01 AM, Darren New wrote:
> Warp wrote:
>> Neeum Zawan <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> wrote:
>>> I think you're assuming that the ban will be sudden. Make it happen
>>> slowly (over, say, 2 decades), and the outcome may be quite muted.
>>
>> I don't think it's possible to repeal an amendment over the span of
>> 2 decades. It's instantaneous: At one moment the amendment is valid,
>> the next moment it has been repealed. I don't think there's any middle
>> ground there.
>>
>> It happened with the 18th (in December 5th 1933, to be exact).
>
> I think Neeum meant a slow ban on guns in spite of constitutional
> protections. For example, it's now very difficult to own machine guns,
> in spite of the 2nd amendment not giving them special treatment.
>
You might be surprised, but even the NRA, for the most part, *agrees* 
with the idea that there is a sane point, beyond which you need to be an 
idiot to think someone should own one. And, I have, personally, no 
problem with people having such things "at firing ranges". Somewhat less 
so when its, well... for example, a racist, right wing, borderline white 
supremacist, evangelical preacher, found dead in his closet with a dozen 
of them, wearing multiple wetsuits, and his neck squeezed shut by 
several of his own ties. (And that isn't to mention the disturbing thing 
in a certain region of his anatomy *under* the wet suits.)

As much as I distrust, and am made uneasy by, the idea that, "Everyone 
would be safer if it was like the wild west, and everyone had a shot 
gun!", mentality, its nice to know even the gun advocates (well, most of 
them) have some point where they say, "Ok.. Maybe there is a point that 
goes a hair too far here."

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