Selminus]There is a middle ground where we can protect our families and halt those that would come into our homes, but we have to get out of this reflexive mindset where no one is willing to work with the government on it to find that balance. The second you bring up regulation or control people paint images of Obama coming to your house with the police, taking your weapons and then not getting there on time the next day while your wife is getting gang raped. Nobody wants that.
We have beaten the shit out of this topic, missed each others points, and developed rivalries in an online gaming guild when we should instead be focused on contributing to LoD and having a good time. I'm just as guilty as anyone else and think that we should just wind it down and agree to disagree.
On that first part, you'd be surprised dude...In Denver, the city decided it didn't want Pit Bulls anymore so they passed a law banning them. It was a law that was reactionary, based on tragedy, and had no basis in statistcal studies or evidence, much like this issue. When "D Day" came, they actually sent animal control officers door to door and took pepople's family pets from them. These were not vicious dogs that had a history of attacking people. These were peoples' pets that had been nothing but loving and good to their masters. You had 10 days to retrieve your dog or it would be put down. In order to get your dog out doggy jail, you had to sign a waiver of rights saying that 1. You admit your dog is a pitt bull (even though there is no such breed) and 2. If they catch the dog in city limits again, it will be taken and put down and you waive all rights to appeal the action. So basically, they held your dog hostage and made you waive your legal rights to save it from death. Much like this issue, the law did not stop dog fighting rings and in fact, since it was passed 10 years ago or whatever, there is not one statiscal study that can prove it had any effect whatsoever on dog bite injury or mortality rates.
My point is, you have to watch your politicians very VERY carefully. They use tragedies like this to further their careers by putting on their capes and being the hero to the sheeple who believe whatever they read in the news. If you do not pay attention and fight legislation about issues like this where the government is trying to revoke or limit your rights to ownership or other civil liberties, you very well could wake up one day to a knock on the door demanding that you turn over your firearms or go to jail.
Re: 2, I agree, and as soon as I see you in game I'm pk'ing you.
