What does downtown NYC have to do with anything?
I don't believe that everyone "should" have dual 50 cals on their cars - it'd be a waste of gasoline carrying around all the ammo weight all the time. But why should simply having them be a crime?
Look, people can legally buy and operate cars capable of doing two to three times the highest maximum speed limit anywhere in the US with no background check, no fingerprints, no nothing except the fees for the license plates and the price of gasoline.
In free countries, you don't criminalize machines, you criminalize criminal behavior.
Should 6 year olds be able to buy hand grenades at 7-11?
It used to be possible, in the 50's, to buy 20mm anti-tank rifles mail-order, and the country didn't descend into urban chaos. What purpose does your example here serve except as a pitiful attempt to inflame emotion?
If I'm busy changing the oil and I want to send my six-year-old down to the corner store to pick up a few rounds for my M40 for some weekend recreation or stump removal, what business is it of yours or anyone else's?
No ID check, signature, or even human interaction is needed to buy as much gasoline as one's credit card balance and tank capacity will allow, and one gallon of gasoline has the explosive potential of 14 sticks of dynamite. I can, right now, today, send a six-year-old to the corner gas station with my credit card and a little red wagon to pick up five gallons for the lawn mower, and the world hasn't collapsed into arson-driven chaos yet.
Don't buy into the imaginary peril that the anti-gunners dream up. It's just not related to reality in any meaningful way.
Damn good post!
Our schools all used to have gun clubs too and kids always brought their guns to school for show.
We live in a dumbed down, sissified, nanny state.
Your intended use is none of our business either, yet you made a point of telling us. Why?
"In free countries, you don't criminalize machines, you criminalize criminal behavior."
We criminalize DUI. Why? Merely driving under the influence harms no one.
Or if we want to have our tanks circle the Statehouse in a monster tank rally ... the right of the People to peacefully assemble...