Eh heh... maybe it wasn't fully automatic, but I seem to remember he did some sort of Mod to it...
Back to topic, hold the phone, I said
don't ban guns. So before you argue with me about something I'm attempting to find a middle ground with you on allow me to state my stance:
If the gov't goes nuts: I want a gun.
If I felt lke hunting, I want a gun.
If someone breaks into my house and threatens my family, I really, really, really want a gun.
I do NO want anyone owning anything more powerful than a 30-odd-6(don't know the official demarcation, please excuse me) or a 357 magnum. Nor anything with the potential to exceed certain levels of efficacy, say, being able to kill or injure a crowd of people via whatever means one could do so in a small amount of time.
I do NOT want anyone convicted of felonies ever touching a gun. Since many states don't even allow convicted felon to vote, they shouldn't be able to express their opinion with a firearm either.
I do NOT want guns allowed in public spaces unless duly licensed and authorized. Thusly keeping firearms where they're needed (police officers, for example). And if a guy's gotta go to his car to grab a gun cause he's pissed, that allowed at least some margin for prevention. I'll conceed that this is likely impossible to enforce, but it would make me feel that more safe.
The philosophy I adhere to is that the 2nd amendment should be left alone entirely and be neither expanded or constrained, and that ultimately we should work on what does decrease crime, keeping people happy and employed and housed, simple Maslow's hierarchy stuff, and work tooward a point where we simply keep guns for their intended purpose for private defense from totalitarian.... whatever, etc. etc.
However, I believe if there are pieces of this that can be excised in the meantime to truly and provably limit firearm deaths, then I am all for that. I do NOT support a ban, I support regulation. If you still want your extraneous gun/turrets/cannons, etc, fine, but make the ammunition inaccessible. As I have stated, I am anti-extremist on both sides, so guns dissapearing bad, guns and firearms allowed to
flourish also bad. We're not afraid of gov't when we think of guns, we're afraid of other people with guns. I'm not expecting the military to bust down my door when I(if i had one) reach for the gun on my nightstand, I'm scared of some crazy dude with a shotgun looking for my non-existent valuables. I'd like to eliminate both possibilities, but if I had the second scenario happening, I'd at least like to downgrade him to something a little more-short distance.