04-29-2023, 10:02 PM
Mr645 wrote:
[quote=Acer]
Cigarettes are quite restricted and regulated. As are cars. I'd be happy to start there with respect to guns. We can tackle hammers last, as they are the least deadly of the batch.
Gun, like background checks to buy one? Age limits, like 21 to buy a hand gun?
Hammers were used to kill more Americans than AR-15s last year, maybe start there.
There were 20x more deaths due to firearms than hammers in 2021 in the US.
If you want to compare cigarettes to firearms, you need to call each package the same - restrict and heavily tax ammunition for guns. I'm 100% there with you.
I'm glad you recognize that deaths due to cigarettes (which are still the single cause of preventable death and excel healthcare costs in the US) should be reduced.
That guns (and hammers) kill people, and that it would be good to have fewer such deaths.
I will walk and talk with anyone who want to legitimately discuss the right policy decisions that should be implemented while maintaining our core Constitutional rights.
But do NOT try to tell me that regulation, taxation, registration, or requiring insurance blocks the Second Amendment. Does NOT.