Reply #69: Why?

[lastliberalintexas]

"The point is to get guns, particularly automatic and high-powered guns, out of the hands of everyone except military and law-enforcement (and if anyone cares to bring up the resist-government argument, refer to post #39)."

Why do you feel that you have the right to tell me what I can or can not POSSESS? I'm not talking about criminal laws which regulate the USE of a weapon (be it a gun, knife, slingshot or baseball bat). But what you are arguing for gives you and/or the government the authority to control what object I can possess.

Do you really trust a government enough to allow them that type of control? If so, why not allow them control over who may pray, where they may pray and to which God they may pray? Why not allow the government to control who may or may not have children and who may be forced into having an abortion? Do you realy trust any political entity that much?

I am a liberal, by golly, and I believe that the individual should have more rights than the government. Why y'all seem to turn into conservatives when guns are mentioned is beyond me. Please remember that conservative political theory is based on a distrust of the individual and a belief in government control for the "good" of the individual. As such, your belief in favor of gun control actually makes you a conservative on that issue.

Please don't act like you have the right to tell me what I can possess. And no, I don't own any guns.