Comments by "whyamimrpink78" (@whyamimrpink78) on "" video.
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@brandonadams3914 "The first part of your framing around gun regulation = taking away people's guns is a right wing argument. No one arguing for gun reform is demanding people's guns be confiscated or the 2nd amendment be abolished. "
The counter argument to that is slippery slope. While, right now there is no direct push to take away guns, the right is being chipped away. It is better to be sneaky than to be fully upfront about it. When the 100 round drum was ban people said "who needs that". Well, it drifted to "who needs a 30 round magazine", which is ban in some states. Or a 10 round one which are ban in some states. It gets chipped away.
Or the push to ban the AR 15. Many will say "who needs an AR 15, it is just for killing". Well, like the magazine limits, it opens doorways to ban other guns. Banning the 100 round drum created legal pathways to ban other magazines. Banning one gun, the AR 15 in this case, opens doorways to ban other guns. Now government can ban one gun, they have pathways to ban others.
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@brandonadams3914 and it should not be that way for two major reasons. One, citizens should be allowed to own them as it is our right, and two, the parts still exist. You can legally buy a tank and modify it. The modification will be illegal, but the parts exist. Same in turning a semi-auto into an automatic. The parts exist.
My point still stands as the right is being chipped away. Yes, you can still buy an automatic and a RPG, the point is that they are not outright banned. People are pushing to ban the AR-15 completely. Just like 100 round drums were ban led to 30 round magazines being banned. An outright ban of the AR-15 will be the outright ban of many guns. There is no a legal loophole on it. While I disagree on the restrictions of automatics and grenade launchers, there is no outright ban on them. That is the point. There is a stopping point. Banning the AR-15 ends that stopping point.
"Though I do not support the ban on AR-15s generally speaking, if they were banned tomorrow, there would be 20 million likely grandfathered in and legally purchasable."
And some people want those grandfathered in banned. You may say you do not support the outright ban, but many do. That is a reason the Constitution was created to begin with, to prevent the slippery slope from happening. There are people there who want to outright ban guns.
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