"The Second Amendment is about revolution."

[darxus]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/7/4/881431/-Why-liberals-should-love-the-Second-Amendment

I am the choir. I do not understand liking anti-gun laws.

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Re: One person’s notion of the point of restrictions on gun ownership. (part 3)

[beowabbit]

(I gather fluffy2097 isn’t participating here any more; just commenting on the following since it ties in with a point I was making.)

Despite it being this easy to get a hold of a long arm in California, Most gun crime here is committed with handguns, which require a firearms ID to own.

Yes, which is why plenty of people (myself included) feel like relatively looser restrictions on longarms make sense than on handguns. A bunch of what I said is about how guns (much more so than, say, knives) make it easy to surprise your opponent and win the fight (and end or seriously damage a human being) before anybody around you knows the fight has started. That’s still true with a longarm (cf. John Allan Muhammad, Lee Harvey Oswald, and of course military and police snipers) but considerably less so than with a handgun. If you carry a shotgun into a bank or a day-care center, people are likely to notice.

If I had to choose between the world we have now and a world where absolutely anybody could walk up to a counter, plop down a wad of bills, and walk away with a(n unmodifiable) rifle or shotgun, but absolutely nobody could get their hands on a handgun, I’d feel like the second world was a lot safer.

Civilian ownership of tanks and cannons is already legal

And if you walk into a bank with a cannon, people are really going to notice. :-)