As it stands today, I can't purchase a Glock 18, but my indoor range can rent it to me. It's not something I would purchase anyway. That is VERY different from thinking my personal property is going to be locked up out of my control. Unacceptable.
A Modest Proposal
Author Jonathan Swift
Genre Satirical essay
Publication date 1729
A Modest Proposal For preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick
Swift classic suggests that the Poverty stricken Irish raise and sell their children
To be consumed as food by rich peopleā¦..
A Modest Proposal, indeed.