Reply #89: Discrete vs. non-discrete weapons

[krispos42]

The right to keep and bear arm is not, of course, an unlimited right. No right is, not the speech, not press, not privacy.

The line in the sand was drawn in 1934 with the National Firearms Act, which created two classes of firearms, Title 1 and Title 3. Title 1 is the stuff you'll find in any gun safe or gun store: guns that fire one and only one shot per pull of the trigger and are .50 caliber or less, with exceptions for shotguns.

Title 3 stuff fires multiple shots per pull of the trigger. It also provides for explosive devices like grenades and artillery shells.

Title 3 firearms are licenced and registered with the federal govenment, and there is a $200 transfer tax every time they are bought and sold.


The difference between Title 1 and Title 3 firearms is that Title 1 firearms are discrete weapons. You, the shooter, have under your control the trajectory of every single projectile that come out of the barrel of that gun.

With Title 3 firearms and explosive devices, you have no such control. There's a broad lethality zone. And in the interests of public safety, they have higher standards of control and tighter regulations.

And there is the difference between a rifle and napalm or a suitcase nuke.




I don't buy it when the reich-wing calls our rights "archaic" or "outmodeled" in the "post-9/11 world", and I don't buy it when the gun-control people say it either.

Is it any wonder why we're the only industrialized country to have thousands of gun deaths yearly?

The assumption in your somewhat ridiculous statement is that if we didn't have guns, we wouldn't have gun deaths. That the number of people murdered without guns would stay steady and not skyrocket. That is a foolish assumption to make.

The UK's gun-death rate is at historic lows. Is that progress?

Only if you ignore the fact that their TOTAL homicide rate is at near-record highs. That over the past 40 years their homicide rate has DOUBLED!




If you want to lower murders and crimes, then let's stick to and promote our traditional liberal values, which will do far more far better to solve these ills than trying to take away hardware.

It is NOT okay that the rich get richer and the poor get poorer as long as the crime rate is low! That is unacceptable.