Why should those that want assault rifles and guns be able to enforce them on the rest of us that no not want them included in their nation?
I was first introduced to the M16 when I was training to be an officer back in 1967. I remember the demonstration. The standard 30 caliber weapon was fired into a metal gallon can filled with water. The exit hole was the size of a nickel. The M16 was fired into a similar gallon can of water and blew the back of the can off. The implication was that the M16 would blow your head off if it hit there. The M16 might also take off an arm or leg if it impacted there. The M16 might blow all the internal organs out of a child if it hit in the torso. I lost interest in guns at that point and have never owned or fired one since.
I don’t want to live in any nation that’s nuts enough to allow assault rifles. I think that the manufactures of these weapons should be sued a billion dollars for the damage done in Newtown.
If people want these weapons, let them have their own nation. I don’t want to enforce my anti-assault weapon views on the dystopians. More importantly, I don’t want them to use the rest of us for target practice. If M16’s are necessary for the happiness of the gun cult, let them have them in their own nation. Allow them to secede or vice versa.
I don’t mind bolt action guns or single shot pistols. If a gun nut goes nuts with a single shot gun, he can be over-whelmed after only one shot – while reloading. The vintage muzzle loading rifle of the revolutionary war era is even more preferable. These would be the weapons of utopians, if any.
Utopia should not be forced on any. One homogenous nation can never be anything but dystopia for the majority. However, one nation of fifty different states can be utopian as people can move to the state with the laws that they enjoy. The states should be required to be different. One state should allow gun nuts. Another state should be allowed to be socialistic. Another state should allow same sex marriages. Forcing homogenous beliefs on all of us is dystopian. I believe in very few of Washington’s cherished mores and ideals. United we stand, divided we fall is not one of those beliefs.
With today’s technology, weapons can be prevented from crossing state lines. The national goverment can enforce weapons from being carried from one nation to another. The interstate transportation of weapons can be electronically prevented by requiring that all guns have identifying chips inserted which cannot be legally removed.