Why? and huh? No one should be able to buy an automatic assault rifle.
I just. Have no idea. No good explanation has been given. Bush is like "well, I'll sign a new ban if someone gives me the bill, buuuuut no one's given me the bill so I guess there's no ban!" Coincidentally, his friends at the NRA are wetting themselves with joy.
You can live in my garage and I'll feed you chocolate.
Land of the Cee and home of the chocolate, here I come!
God, I've just seen the news stuff on it today. Why the fuck does a member of the public need an assault rifle?! Scary. And more scary. How can you allow that?!
I've put a mattress down and it's not too drafty. I think you'll be ok.
The thing about America is, we argue on ideology rather han practicality. Which really screws things up.
There's this rule in a really old document that says private citizens are allowed to keep and bear arms. Fair enough. But this was written back when everyone was using muskets, and there were actual threats that some crazy hillbilly family might charge in and steal your land, home, rape your children and eat your dog. Things have changed, but some assbandits people still argue that "keeping and bearing arms" means we can keep and bear anything that shoots bullets and makes a loud noise, whether it's an air rifle or an uzi. Banning any type of firearm is taking away our Freedom, damnit! Sadly, these are the nuts that elected the current President and he wants to keep them happy. And so, citizens of the United States can now own automatic weapons.
Which doesn't explain why anyone needs one or what possible non-abusive use they could have. Because I really have no freaking idea.
California, fortunately, has a statewide ban on automatic weapons. They're still illegal to buy here. But like bottle rockets and M-80s, you can still get them from neighboring states if you want one badly enough to make the, er, four hour drive. :P
I think that everyone knows that Americans have the right to bear arms (I nearly wrote bare arms then...). We're so saturated with American culture - to the point that I probably know your justice system better than my own.
Perhaps people need automatics to prop their table leg up with? I know that rocket launcher attachment looks fantastic as a centre piece on my coffee table. I think I've only ever known a couple of people who owned guns and they were shotguns for clay pigeon shooting. Oh, and my friend has an air rifle.
I've never been interested in politics particularly but the way things are at the moment you have to be. All people seem to be bothered about at the moment here is banning fox hunting like there isn't anything else more important to be thinking about. Won't anyone think of those poor persecuted dinosaurs?
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Why? and huh? No one should be able to buy an automatic assault rifle.
*pastes a union jack on her backpack*
*begins packing*
You can live in my garage and I'll feed you chocolate.
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I just. Have no idea. No good explanation has been given. Bush is like "well, I'll sign a new ban if someone gives me the bill, buuuuut no one's given me the bill so I guess there's no ban!" Coincidentally, his friends at the NRA are wetting themselves with joy.
You can live in my garage and I'll feed you chocolate.
Land of the Cee and home of the chocolate, here I come!
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I've put a mattress down and it's not too drafty. I think you'll be ok.
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There's this rule in a really old document that says private citizens are allowed to keep and bear arms. Fair enough. But this was written back when everyone was using muskets, and there were actual threats that some crazy hillbilly family might charge in and steal your land, home, rape your children and eat your dog. Things have changed, but some
assbanditspeople still argue that "keeping and bearing arms" means we can keep and bear anything that shoots bullets and makes a loud noise, whether it's an air rifle or an uzi. Banning any type of firearm is taking away our Freedom, damnit! Sadly, these are the nuts that elected the current President and he wants to keep them happy. And so, citizens of the United States can now own automatic weapons.Which doesn't explain why anyone needs one or what possible non-abusive use they could have. Because I really have no freaking idea.
California, fortunately, has a statewide ban on automatic weapons. They're still illegal to buy here. But like bottle rockets and M-80s, you can still get them from neighboring states if you want one badly enough to make the, er, four hour drive. :P
Rant rant rant. I'm liberal commie scum, etc.
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Perhaps people need automatics to prop their table leg up with? I know that rocket launcher attachment looks fantastic as a centre piece on my coffee table. I think I've only ever known a couple of people who owned guns and they were shotguns for clay pigeon shooting. Oh, and my friend has an air rifle.
I've never been interested in politics particularly but the way things are at the moment you have to be. All people seem to be bothered about at the moment here is banning fox hunting like there isn't anything else more important to be thinking about. Won't anyone think of those poor persecuted dinosaurs?
I'm liberal commie scum
I think I'll join you in that.