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<blockquote data-quote="bgant" data-source="post: 4987864" data-attributes="member: 20350"><p>Though Biden's gun control plan is very extreme, to say the least, I think it's mostly there to appease those in the anti-gun camp. The anti-gun camp, from what I can tell, is a small minority of the country that primarily grew up in urban environments and have never been around guns in their lives. I've known one or two of these folks along the way, and when I talked to them about common uses for guns by rural folks, like predator control, hunting, etc., both of them were surprised to hear an opposing but rational counterpoint and appreciated that and could see the need for guns. Not that I changed their minds, but they at least could begin to see the utilitarian nature of firearms. </p><p></p><p>Further, the question of a buy back and future ban (albeit temporary like the assault weapons ban Clinton passed) is possible, but an outright ban of existing firearms or high-capacity magazines, does not seem possible. I understand that FFLs must report sales to the ATF, but anyone can walk into a store or get online and buy high-capacity magazines and those records aren't required to be maintained in the same fashion as those for firearms. And how far back into sales records would one go to identify every single "assault weapon" that's been sold? 10 years, 50 years? Again, this seems more like something that was written to appease a small group of people, not something that's actually intended to be implemented. If I've ever hoped to be correct, this is the instance! Also, everyone is armed with "assault weapons" and "high-capacity magazines" at this point. Left, right, ethnicity, religion, none of that matters, the majority of Americans are legally armed at this point.</p><p></p><p>Lastly, not that this is the question, but I'm getting on my soap box based on some of the responses from those lobbing verbal bombs at those on the left. I hope you're sitting down as this will likely come as a shock, but not all folks on the left are anti-gun. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the majority of those on the left aren't anti-gun and are in fact, gun owners themselves. Just like you and me. I'd say there are even likely left-leaning voters on this very forum. I have plenty of friends on the left, right, and middle, and they ALL own lots of guns and ammo. In fact, I have several left-leaning friends, some of them pretty far left, that are as heavily into shooting sports and hunting as any of my friends on the right. I myself am a middle of the road voter. Being on the extreme end of just about anything is not productive and definitely doesn't lead to any sort of unification of a group of people, except for the small group of extremists that share the viewpoint. </p><p></p><p>I assume this post is going to get torched, but if everyone would think a little more about not being ready to jump everyone else's yugo at the drop of a hat, we wouldn't be where we are now as a country.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bgant, post: 4987864, member: 20350"] Though Biden's gun control plan is very extreme, to say the least, I think it's mostly there to appease those in the anti-gun camp. The anti-gun camp, from what I can tell, is a small minority of the country that primarily grew up in urban environments and have never been around guns in their lives. I've known one or two of these folks along the way, and when I talked to them about common uses for guns by rural folks, like predator control, hunting, etc., both of them were surprised to hear an opposing but rational counterpoint and appreciated that and could see the need for guns. Not that I changed their minds, but they at least could begin to see the utilitarian nature of firearms. Further, the question of a buy back and future ban (albeit temporary like the assault weapons ban Clinton passed) is possible, but an outright ban of existing firearms or high-capacity magazines, does not seem possible. I understand that FFLs must report sales to the ATF, but anyone can walk into a store or get online and buy high-capacity magazines and those records aren't required to be maintained in the same fashion as those for firearms. And how far back into sales records would one go to identify every single "assault weapon" that's been sold? 10 years, 50 years? Again, this seems more like something that was written to appease a small group of people, not something that's actually intended to be implemented. If I've ever hoped to be correct, this is the instance! Also, everyone is armed with "assault weapons" and "high-capacity magazines" at this point. Left, right, ethnicity, religion, none of that matters, the majority of Americans are legally armed at this point. Lastly, not that this is the question, but I'm getting on my soap box based on some of the responses from those lobbing verbal bombs at those on the left. I hope you're sitting down as this will likely come as a shock, but not all folks on the left are anti-gun. In fact, I'd go so far as to say the majority of those on the left aren't anti-gun and are in fact, gun owners themselves. Just like you and me. I'd say there are even likely left-leaning voters on this very forum. I have plenty of friends on the left, right, and middle, and they ALL own lots of guns and ammo. In fact, I have several left-leaning friends, some of them pretty far left, that are as heavily into shooting sports and hunting as any of my friends on the right. I myself am a middle of the road voter. Being on the extreme end of just about anything is not productive and definitely doesn't lead to any sort of unification of a group of people, except for the small group of extremists that share the viewpoint. I assume this post is going to get torched, but if everyone would think a little more about not being ready to jump everyone else's yugo at the drop of a hat, we wouldn't be where we are now as a country. [/QUOTE]
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