Gun Control & RKBA

"...carrying any gun for any reason anywhere."

Further down in the thread there's talk about laws against murder. "Hey, those are unenforceable too, so let's get rid of them, you stupid gun humper," is where the argument usually leads.

But murder is not the same thing as owning a gun with too many cosmetic features. Neither is theft, or rape, or any number of act considered malum in se. To claim that they are is to be completely out of touch with reality, which is what that argument does.

We the people have delegated to the government the power to initiate the use of force. We pass laws against murder and other crimes, have the police track down suspects, and have the courts decide guilt and punishment because otherwise you have roving lynch mobs making those decisions at the end of a noose.

But along with that is a responsibility that the laws that are passed, for acts that are malum in se or malum prohibitum actually make sense, and are reasonable, and the punishment fits the crime.

And threatening me with a felony conviction and 1, 5, 10, whatever years of prison time (which is what is usually recommended as punishment in these laughable "assault weapon bans&quot for owning a firearm with the wrong number of features, when some other crimes where people are actually being harmed, physically or financially, result in far lighter sentences, is the very definition of an extreme, unreasonable, tyrannical "law", and it deserves to be flauted, and fought against in the courts and legislatures.

And it is why, in part, Democrats keep losing elections.