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Originally Posted by ImprobablyJoe
Yeah! The government already took our cars, and they're going to come after our guns next!!
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You are laughing right now; but in a dozen years when they come for your carbon-emitting, fossil-fuel guzzling SUV, you probably won't be chuckling so hard. The Government already gives preferential tax treatment to hybrid vehicles. It isn't at all far-fetched to see them treating SUVs like so-called "assault weapons" in the future and some lobbying groups are already advancing those kinds of plans right now.
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I would love to see guns treated like cars. It would be the biggest deregulation of guns ever.
You see, that is one problem your little one-liner overlooks. There is currently no large organized movement of
people in the media and Congress who have the total elimination of cars as their stated goal; but it turns out there are lots of people in Congress and the media who feel that way.
If someone says they plan to punch you in the face and tries to do it, does it not count until they actually succeed? Should you continue to stand still on the basis that they haven't actually made contact yet?
Finally, exactly what problem is regulation solving in this case. Right now
the number of accidental firearms deaths is miniscule. So exactly what problem are we correcting by more regulation?