Anna Nicks
12-17-2013 12:49 pm
OWENSVILLE, MO-Bring up gun control, and everyone is going to have an opinion, whether for it, or against it. I see very few people who fall in the middle. I tend to fall on the side of more control. Now hold on. Before you stop reading, or before you start sending me angry letters, let me explain. I am not saying that no one should be allowed to have any firearms. That is not my opinion. I am simply stating that – “hey, it might be a good idea to have some restrictions on the deadly weapons that people own and shoot.”
Allow me to ask a rhetorical
question. Why do you need an assault rifle that holds fifty
bullets? Not “why do you want,” but “why
do you need” I have heard many answers.
One of them (that I see as the most ridiculous) is “to protect my
rights.” To protect your rights? Really?
What rights do you have to protect with an assault weapon? As I see it, none of them.
Is it a good idea to allow anybody to
buy a silencer? Again, I ask: why do you
need a silencer? If your activities are legal, you do not. I understand that sometimes people just want
to own something, but if that something could be misused to kill someone and
get away with it, perhaps it is not a good idea to let everyone have them.
It is my opinion that there should
be some restrictions on what firearms and firearm paraphernalia people can own
and fire. I believe that you should have
as many weapons as you want. I believe
that you should not be able to own fully automatic guns. I do not believe that you should own anything
that makes the mass slaughter of human beings incredibly easy to get away
with. Restriction on guns is not to
squash your rights, they are to help protect you and your loved ones.
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