I feel I perfectly countered your entirely rational argument. 
Iād just like to say that I canāt wait until all cars drive themselves. Humans in general are terrible drivers and the faster we automate that system the better. It will be faster, more efficient, less fuel consuming, a lot more safer, and in general more pleasant experience.
Hereās an interesting chestnut of Gun Control.
How do we feel about gun control executed poorly? Iām all for banning guns entirely, but I think it should be done in a sensible fashion.
My home state of CT bans guns that hold too many bullets. I think this is excellent. However if you want to own a gun that holds more bullets than the law says you can, the law lets you do this provided you alter the bullet holder to hold less bullets. I think this is stupid. Ban the gun outright or allow it outright but donāt go having people artificially changing their stuff.
I think if they say guns canāt hold x bullets then guns that can hold that many should be outright banned, modified or otherwise. Furthermore I think the very concept of modifying them to be less like themselves is just dumb itself
If all cars in America were to disappear tomorrow, a whole hell of a lot of Americans would die from not having them. If all guns in America were to disappear, the few hundred or so Americans who rely on hunting for survival would die, and thousands of Americans would not be killed by guns.
As said above, barring truly mind-boggling changes to American infrastructure, banning cars would honestly do a lot more harm than good. Banning guns would be almost entirely good.
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Other than revolvers and some others, most guns can āholdā variable numbers of bullets in differently sized magazines. There can be several sizes of magazine that all fit the same gun.
In terms of ādumbā or poorly executed regulations, I donāt really care. The harder it is for people to have anything more complex than a simple hunting rifle or shotgun, the better.
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This is fine. If the gun can hold magazines that are above what my state allows in terms of bullets. Ban it.
Done deal. Maybe ban that clip. and ban it based on a volume calculation rather than allowing clips that have had just so much cement poured into it so as to allow it to abide by state laws.
Iām with you on gun control Iām just applying my pedantry to it. Like I do everything else.
Iād love to see the day where basically only revolvers were the last handguns allowed in my state. Then all weād have to do is ban them too.
Most of the regulations that require an individual to make something would substantially reduce the number of that thing. Banning sale and still allowing ownership is kind of weird but is similar to how we handle anything else with safety regulations. You can build your own vehicles and power tools, but you generally canāt sell them unless they are within regulation.
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Gun nuts flip out if you confuse clips and magazines.
Can we just ban people who flip out when you confuse clips and magazines?
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Iām ok with this, it will solve 99% of the problem.
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/353670-hoyer-gop-cowed-by-nra
The NRA is one of the most powerful lobbyist groups in Washington, having spent more than $52 million in the 2016 election cycle, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. A large bulk of that funding benefitted Republican candidates, with more than $30 million going to support President Trump.
$52 million is chump change for any of the actual rich people out there. Ask yourself. Why is it only the evil rich people like oil companies and gun industry that is giving this kind of money to congress. If they listen to money, why isnāt anyone paying them to do the opposite?
Because all rich people are evil, publicly perceived to be evil, or good or otherwise. Duh.
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This is the correct answer.
The NRA brings way more than money to the table.
It brings a fairly large single-issue voting bloc.
Do what the NRA wants, and that bloc will lock-step vote for you. The money is not the carrot: the bloc is. See also: anti-choice activists and (formerly) anti-marriage-equality activists.
So youāve kinda stumbled on something thatās kinda been on my mind lately. The problem isnāt like some small cabal of people being evil. Itās likeā¦ about half the country. I donāt think thereās a solution for a country when the problem is literally half of the whole country.
There was a solution. We tried it from 1861 to 1865. It worked, but we didnāt finish the job.
So I like the idea but have you considered what a modern civil war would look like?
It wouldnāt be like ye olden times, where both sides have armies. The worldās biggest army, navy, air force and all police forces would be on one side.
It wouldnāt look like a war in the traditional sense of the word.
Who says it has to be a war of guns?
Only anyone suggesting solutions should look like past solutions from the mid 1800s
I mean, if we want to be pedantic gun modification kinda butts up against right to repair in some ways. The manufacturers would love it if you have to keep buying products from them, ideally only from them. Whether itās cars or your computer, the corporations want you to pay them for any service or parts. In reality, you can do a lot of stuff yourself cheaper and easier. With paintball markers there was definitely a lot of aftermarket parts that were pretty nice.
With this most recent big incident, there was some talk of him doing some relatively easy modifications to make his rifles function closer to fully automaticā¦ and pretty much all fully automatic is actually good for was what this guy was doingā¦ spraying a crowd.
As an aside, my uncle really shouldnāt have firearms. Whatever regulations people want, I want them to apply to my uncle who has a criminal history (just no felonies), multiple diagnosis, and he only has them as a way of making himself feel bigger and potentially threatening others.