Ahhh, so it's only because of the proliferation of semi-autos that this wouldn't work. (Reply #64)

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Wed Jan 16, 2013, 07:50 AM

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64. Ahhh, so it's only because of the proliferation of semi-autos that this wouldn't work.

So if many more people owned machine guns in 1934, THEN the machine gun ban wouldn't have been a good thing. Yeah, that makes plenty of sense.

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66 replies	Author	Time	Post
A historical reminder for Prohibitionists of all stripes [View all]	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	OP
Exactly, we should do nothing because if we did something we might make a mistake n/t	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#1
Almost no one is proposing a prohibition.	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#2
The temperance movement didn't start out as the "enforced teetotaling" movement.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#22
Ahhh ... so because THAT happened, we must shrug and do nothing ...	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#27
You're going to DROP the 20 to 25% of Americans that own guns from the discussion?	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#35
You seem confused ... since I did not say drop ALL gun owners from the discussion.	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#39
You lot seem confused about the NRA and me. I don't dig them at all, and disagree with them...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#48
Sigh...	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#3
Excellent response.	99Forever	Jan 2013	#16
By all means! n/t	backscatter712	Jan 2013	#26
Tanks, me likie! n/t	99Forever	Jan 2013	#28
What? No "NRA talking point(s)"? -1 for insufficient use of...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#37
+100	TeamPooka	Jan 2013	#54
You live in fear. You respond to fear and you	upaloopa	Jan 2013	#4
A reminder for morons: Drugs and booze are not guns.	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#5
But the culture war against those that use them are almost the same.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#18
Not really, no	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#24
in other words	DonCoquixote	Jan 2013	#59
Not exactly	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#63
Waaaaait a minute. You mean a gin and tonic is not the same as an assault weapon? Now I'm all	Squinch	Jan 2013	#55
Australia enacted strict gun control and they haven't had a massacre since then.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#6
Australia never had a gun culture like ours, or a culture war surrounding their guns.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#19
Mexico enacted strict gun control and they haven't had a massacre since - oh, wait...	derby378	Jan 2013	#21
And Mexico is largely anarchic and run by drug cartels.	Spider Jerusalem	Jan 2013	#30
I'm okay with legalizing marijuana - that would help make a dent in trafficking	derby378	Jan 2013	#52
See post 87. eom	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#7
Snort!	Squinch	Jan 2013	#56
Nobody is taking away your guns.	Taverner	Jan 2013	#8
Shhhhhhhh!!!	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#11
prohibit,mandate,compel,comply? i don't think so...	green for victory	Jan 2013	#9
So true.	CalFresh	Jan 2013	#10
Those Prohibitions were bad and ill intentioned but ours is noble and enlightened	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 2013	#12
President Obama believes in prohibition	Fumesucker	Jan 2013	#13
Some here clearly do	ProgressiveProfessor	Jan 2013	#15
Is this about the prohibition of child porn? Are you saying we should just allow it?	DanTex	Jan 2013	#14
Child porn is nowhere near as popular (thank YHPOC!) as guns and booze.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#17
It might be, if it wasn't, umm, prohibited.	DanTex	Jan 2013	#23
I rather doubt 20-25% of the population would be into child porn.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#31
Wait, wait, wait, I thought the OP was against "prohibitionists of all stripes"!	DanTex	Jan 2013	#38
I am neither for nor against. I point out they rarely turn out they way they are supposed to.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#41
What do you mean "they"?	DanTex	Jan 2013	#46
I rarely drink, gave up on cannabis long ago, and own no guns.	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#49
Yes, we know that you really hate prohibition.	DanTex	Jan 2013	#51
So the badness of the prohibition is dependent on how popular the prohibited item is?	Squinch	Jan 2013	#57
I don't think keeping dogs off the liquor will really hurt us any....	snooper2	Jan 2013	#20
moderation in all things n/t	RainDog	Jan 2013	#25
True. The gun Prohibtionists will "represent" all gun control advocates, just as...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#45
Thank You	Berserker	Jan 2013	#29
Not only do they forget history, they forgot Santayana:	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#42
I know what you'e talking about	bongbong	Jan 2013	#32
Well well well	alcibiades_mystery	Jan 2013	#33
I'm sure that the 80 million gun owners in the US will be perfectly happy to...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#36
You are going to need a lot more Straw.	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#40
Yeah yeah, we know- "This one will be different!"	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#43
I find if you keep the TV turned down low enough, you can hear the Helicopters	JoePhilly	Jan 2013	#44
I rather doubt it will happen, personally. You might, however, wish to have a word or two...	friendly_iconoclast	Jan 2013	#47
Most, 99%, will be fine with any new regulations.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#53
And some of the extremists	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#58
They already are over the NYS law.	Warren Stupidity	Jan 2013	#60
Looks like there will be a lot of 'em PePpeReD soon.	RomneyLies	Jan 2013	#61
Slipping and sliding down the slippery slope! Just one step & it's all over!	maxsolomon	Jan 2013	#34
I know. Machine gun prohibition turned out so fucking awful, right?	EOTE	Jan 2013	#50
Machine guns were never owned by many, nothing like semi-auto proliferation.	TheKentuckian	Jan 2013	#62
Ahhh, so it's only because of the proliferation of semi-autos that this wouldn't work.	EOTE	Jan 2013	#64
Common use is a threshold whether you like it or not, has ZERO to do with "good",	TheKentuckian	Jan 2013	#65
Common use is a bullshit indicator of whether or not something should stay.	EOTE	Jan 2013	#66

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