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Old May 1, 2009, 11:59 AM   #34
KLRANGL
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Yep, many of us know more than a minority of parents do. And we pass laws to make sure that kids don't do things that would hurt them or hurt us.
Unfortunately you got that part right. So wheres the law that says children under the age of X cant swim? You'd save more lives there than with this law for certain. What about the law where children have to use training wheels until a certain age?
If you can compare a law that says children cant use automatic weapons to the law where you have to be 18 to join the porn industry, you got things mixed up...

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Nothing new there.
aaaactually... in the span of our country, passing laws to protect people from themselves is a rather new idea... Sure you got prohibition, but I don't remember bike helmets being required for kids until about the late 80s. Then there are seat belt laws, which weren't around until well after cars were invented. Its very new, and its very wrong.

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I personally think energy should be saved for the big issues and yes, I am aware of creeping incrementalism or what not and no, I dont view banning machine guns for 16 year olds as the first step to confiscation and tossing patriots into camps to be reindoctrinated by Marxist babes with birkenstocks, dreads and unshaved armpits..
I mean you're pretty much mostly right. Its not worth getting into a fit over. Doesn't make it right, and it doesn't mean we shouldn't say it isn't right. You don't seem me writing my legislator on the issue anytime soon.

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Right. Just the real dangerous ones. Like, say, handing an Uzi to an 8-year-old.
You wana back that up with statistics? How many kids in the US have accidentally died from shooting a full auto weapon?
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