This is my point, I don't think eveyone is responsible enough to own one. Those may include, people with severe mental illness, people who are not thinking clearly, those with PPO's or restraining orders against them, those with violent criminal backgrounds. These are just my suggestions.
Then you have obfuscated the argument. If someone is not responsible enough to own/use a gun then they aren't responsible for ANY gun. How many bullets it shoots per second is irrelevant.
Since the categories of people you described are already generally prohibited from owning guns, it seems your fears should be satisfied.
I am not placing my fears upon anyone, I am expressing my feelings. In order to drive a semi, you have to go through a screening process to be deemed safe, and have a special license.Which I think is a good idea
Sure you are. You said that automatic weapons should be illegal because YOU don't feel comfortable owning one.
As far as the semi analogy, you don't need ANY sort of permit or qualification to purchase one. If you want to operate it on public roads you need a license, just as if you want to carry a concealed weapon you need a license.
So by that logic we should be able to own whatever we want.
Wy is it a fundamental right? Because the second ammendment exists?
Yup.
So it is of your opinion that there should be absloutely no restrictions of any kind imposed on anyone to own a weapon that was designed for military use to kill people?
All guns were presumably designed to kill people. That really doesn't have anything to do with it.
It is not my opinion that there should be no restrictions on gun ownership. People of tender years, felons and the mentally ill should be prohibited from owning guns for obvious reasons.
However, if someone is a responsible competent gun owner (as 99% of us are) then why should they be prohibited from owning an automatic weapon. If we were going to go on some manical killing spree it would have already happened since many of us have enough hardware to outfit a company.
I am not an extremeist. And I don't believe in absloute anythings.
You believe in a ban on automatic weapons. Sounds pretty absolute to me.
Always and never are not correct for a situation 99.9% of the time.
I agree. So then why are you saying responsible people should never own an automatic weapon.
This happens to be one of them. So I do stand by my origional statement not everyone should own a machine gun. If someone can demonstrate within reason they can safely handle and use one in a legal manner, then by all mean have at it.
But once again, with everything you listed (planes trains and automobiles) no one has to "qualify" for anything to purchase one. I don't have a pilots license but I can buy a de Havilland if I want to. If I want to fly it, thats a different story.
Add to that the fact that ownership of firearms is a fundamental right, and it seems prohibiting ownership of automatic weapons is utterly wrong.
Since we are talking extremes here, do you believe convicted criminals should lose their bill of rights? Do you think prisioners should be allowed guns? These may sound ridiculous, but it is an absloute view.
This doesn't have anything to do with the discussion so lets work on the previous stuff first.