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In reply to the discussion: Are there DUers here that have never owned or [View all]Savannahmann
(3,891 posts)Do we have to be experts to advocate a position? I would say no. I'm a man, and know nothing of Rape, yet I can advocate preventative and protective measures to prevent it. I can advocate a severe punishment for it. I don't have to be a woman to understand it is traumatic, and I don't have to be an expert to know it is terrible.
The question should be do we want to make a better world for the future? The answer obviously is yes. The next question is just as obvious. Can we do that with a significant portion of the population defending a so called right to own, and even carry, devices designed to slaughter defenseless people. Don't give me that nonsense about target shooting. The purpose of the target is to practice shooting living things. Assault weapons are copies for the civilian market of military guns. The Military doesn't buy their guns to put holes in paper targets. They buy them to kill the so called enemy. They have soldiers shoot at pictures of people to inure them to the idea of shooting at people.
So the question remains, must we be expert shots, able to strip and reassemble the guns blindfolded before we are allowed to speak on the issue? If that is the case, then I would suggest that gun owners should be segregated, so they can only harm one another. The rest of us can live peacefully without the danger of having our children slaughtered by the dedicated defenders of the second amendment.