Rights Not Used

[weerdbeard]

I often refer to the anti-gun folks as "Anti-Rights". I'd say the little comment exchange at Jay's yesterday proves that point

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Liberty or not

[anonymous]

That is really what it boils down to -- do the various laws support and increase liberty or do they restrict liberty?

We can write the laws to move society in a particular fashion - there is no reason for a "drunk driving" law that specifies a maximum BAC when we can write the law to say "cause a problem, cause an accident AND have a BAC over X -- then your fine/time in jail is Y times more then if you weren't drunk".

To me that makes more sense. Does it matter if you caused an "accident" because you were sleepy or drunk, because you were texting or just not paying attention?

Not to the other people in the accident....all of them are under your control.

I support increasing people's rights -- increasing their liberty -- but that isn't to say that I support the abolition of all laws either.

Great post.

Bob S.

[anonymous]

"Improper" way? Oh, boy, is my fiance going to be unhappy to learn we've been doing it improperly....
Tennessee Budd

Because somebody at ATF when they were Treasury said so.

[yeah_that_tom]

I don't see how machine guns and SBRs are goofy. Only thing funny about SBRs is the fact that it used to be EIGHTEEN INCHES until the government surplussed a bunch of carbines to the public. Then instead of arresting themselves and making a load of people felons, they decided to change the law to 16" from 18, that's why there is a disparity between SBR and SBS barrel lengths

Re: Because somebody at ATF when they were Treasury said so.

[yeah_that_tom]

5.56mm in shorty barrels is pretty brutal on the ears, though. Be a lot better to go 12" and put a 4" shorty can on it to temper the noise and flash a bit for my tastes