[QUOTE=BENESSE;510213]If it's OK to use an AR-15 for hunting, then why not claymore mines or dynamite?
Is there a line or does ANYthing go?[/QUOTE
Actually I was told by Fish & Wildlife Officer in Florida that I could kill wild hog on private property with any weapon I can legally posses including dynamite. Now I don't use dynamite out of consideration of the neighbors although they hate the hogs they might be ok with it.
I have covered lots of ground since this thread was started. I marched on the Illinois state capital with the gun owners of Illinois and just last weekend went to Lincolnshire Illinois to a meeting a politician that writes proposed gun control was having. I figure I shouldn't miss this opportunity so I went. Lincolnshire is an exclusive Northwestern Chicago suburb neighborhood where homes start at 500K and up. The people that live there are so different I felt a little like I was in a foreign county. They hate guns and their minds are made up. They actually believe an AR-15 is made for the sole purpose of killing people and AR-15's are also machine guns. I finally had a chance to speak for about 15 seconds before I was identified as pro-gun and was cut off. I did say this, "AR-15's are not machine guns, Machine guns are prohibited by federal law, I have documents here that show more people are killed with hammers than rifles of all kinds, I also hunt with and AR-15". That was it.
There were high school students at the meeting that spoke of being afraid in school. The students coming from these high tech schools didn't speak very well. Weak getting the point across. Pro-gun people advocated armed guards in school.
Here is what I think: If people are afraid for their well being they should learn self defense. Self defense isn't always about guns either although I have seen old frail people that have guns for self defense. People are in danger of many things besides hostile people with guns. People need to learn self defense against all possibilities of being harmed. Taking guns away is not going to make people 100% safe.
Most importantly people need to listen to each other and not dig in their heals for a one way conversation. Something I have observed in the last year or two.
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