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In reply to the discussion: Can anyone make a coherent argument that guns are LESS dangerous than cars? i doubt it... [View all]Lurker Deluxe
(1,036 posts)The car comparison is just foolish.
As you say there have been cars that have been deemed unsafe to operate, you can still own them, and you can still drive them. The car company just can not still make them. So, is that the rule you want for firearms? Government says fully automatic weapons can no longer be made, but if you can get one ... you can have it.
Uhhh no.
Collections would be the same way. People collect cars, and have a tendency to collect rare cars, or cars that had some unique feature. I do not think we should let people collect mass amounts of weapons, and to seek out and acquire unique weapons.
As far as vehicles being driven on private property, maybe not so much out there in Cali. I live in Texas, and there are ranches out here that have their own fleet of vehicles that never leave the property. Hell, Ford names their top of the line truck after one of them, "King Ranch". I have a "little" place out in Cut and Shoot, takes up about 20 acres and backs up to a creek, on a dirt road about 10 miles from anything. I have an old beater K-5 Blazer with one seat in it, no windows, and the top cut off (it gets hot and the AC busted years ago) that I use to drag branches and other garbage around with. The number of vehicles that are on hunting properties or leases here in Texas would boggle your mind, there are literally thousands of them. Some numbnuts build deer stands on top of them, complete with seats on the front bumper and built in beer coolers.
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I am not saying there are no similarities between cars and guns, there are some. I want guns controlled more than cars, not the same. I have no problem with the fact that old K-5 has no registration ... pretty sure the government doesn't even know it exists, and although I am a gun owner I think all my weapons should have to be registered and any transfer of them should have to go through a dealer and a fee be paid.