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Arocholl · December 30, 2012, 04:32 PM

What bothers me about this whole process is our governments lack of understanding about this whole issue. That AR-15 didn't kill anyone. A man who should have never had access to any firearm and was denied while attempting to purchase one did.

For example, if he had made a fertilizer bomb like Timothy McVeigh did; would we outlaw fertilizer?

If he set fire to the school using Gasoline and Matches; would we outlaw those?

To quote the late Jeff Cooper “The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”

December 30, 2012, 04:32 PM	#254
Arocholl Member Join Date: October 30, 2012 Posts: 42	What bothers me about this whole process is our governments lack of understanding about this whole issue. That AR-15 didn't kill anyone. A man who should have never had access to any firearm and was denied while attempting to purchase one did. For example, if he had made a fertilizer bomb like Timothy McVeigh did; would we outlaw fertilizer? If he set fire to the school using Gasoline and Matches; would we outlaw those? To quote the late Jeff Cooper “The rifle itself has no moral stature, since it has no will of its own. Naturally, it may be used by evil men for evil purposes, but there are more good men than evil, and while the latter cannot be persuaded to the path of righteousness by propaganda, they can certainly be corrected by good men with rifles.”