Gun owners say goodbye to high-capacity magazines at Freedom Shoot (Colorado)

[The Straight Story]

39. I think it goes to some people feel powerless and want to leverage a higher power

to make them feel safe. They don't mind limiting more and more things when they are things those people don't themselves do.

The second someone comes along and suggest the government should restrict something they enjoy it is suddenly about choice and freedom.

There is a vanishing point, if you will, on issues - some regulations are sensible and beneficial, other ones tend to slide right past that line into the absurd where it serves no real purpose except emotional ones to cling to.

Add to this that we don't read news reports every day of the 50 million people who own guns and don't do anything wrong with them and you start seeing a bias/fear that develops because you only hear the negative about a group (which leads to stereotyping, etc).

I personally think it would be nice to have a list of all the people in the US with guns and the type of each gun they own - for the sole reason I could post 50 million posts a day about about each day about the people who didn't use them in a negative manner....but then that would not push the agenda of people who like to paint a picture of us all being akin to potential terrorists who will snap any minute and need to be monitored and tracked by our government. Reminds me of the how the RW talks about Muslims and terror and how others here say 'you can't judge them all by the few'

Yeah, not a good idea in that case or in others.