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But I suspect my friend Dave has a hidden agenda, albeit an honorable one: he wants to reduce gun violence, and he believes that more legislation is the solution. I think he believes that people don’t “need” an assault-style rifle, therefore banning or significantly restricting their ownership would be a “common sense” measure to reduce gun violence.
If so, I would argue that such legislation isn’t common sense at all; it’s reactionary, shortsighted and ill-informed. But until he chooses to make his gun control argument explicit, I will take his essay at face value, and respond to his points regarding home defense.
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| Violating the rights of millions in hope of preventing a few lawbreakers from breaking the law is not my definition of honorable. |
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| Some of the worst abuses of government force in recent years were precipitated by technical and victimless gun-law violations. For example, the BATF claimed that the Branch Davidians possessed machine guns without paying the required federal tax and filling in the proper registration forms. So a tax case worth less than $10,000 led to a 76-man helicopter, machine gun, and grenade assault on a home in which 2/3 of the occupants were women and children. — Dave Kopel and Dr. Michael S. Brown, Prohibition Fever, NationalReview.com |
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