CMV: There's no reason gun ownership should be a fundamental right.

"First off, why not? If said property is dangerous or in the hands of someone explicitly with the intent to do harm on others (and, since we're in rights talk here, take away the rights of others), should the government not confiscate that property, regardless of how it is obtained?"

Where do you draw the line though? You remove guns because people can be harmed by others with guns. What about knives? Assuming you do get guns banned is it going to stop people from hurting others or will a new weapon be used?

So you have successfully removed guns, now we have a knife epidemic, is it time to ban knives? go into every persons home and take every knife sharper than a butter knife?

Now, guns and knives are banned, lets go to the next most popular way to kill people, blunt object. We have no guns and no knives, time to go back to every persons home and take all of the blunt objects (good luck defining that one).

So now, no guns, no kives, no blunt objects, time for fire! You see where this is going right? the Government can't protect you from all of the bad people in the world, banning guns does nothing to make you safer. Bad people will do bad things regardless of whether their weapon of choice is legal. I would prefer to have a gun that I can use to protect myself and my family.

In addition, why should the Government tell me as a law abiding citizen what I can and not own? I am an adult, I pay my taxes, I don't break the law and I have been nothing but an upstanding citizen. Why should anyone have the right to tell me what I can and can not own in the "land of the free", not, "land of the do and own only what we say you can".

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