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The American right believes that it needs guns to protect itself from the government and is terrified that the left will come to take its guns away. This has g
by resoluteteeth 7y ago
The American right believes that it needs guns to protect itself from the government and is terrified that the left will come to take its guns away.
This has gotten more and more extreme to the point that they are now basically against any gun control laws including restrictions on machine guns or any sort of background checks.
- DuskStar 7y ago> This has gotten more and more extreme to the point that they are now basically against any gun control laws including restrictions on machine guns or any sort of background checks. You are aware that ownership of machine guns is both extremely restricted and rather expensive, while almost all legal gun transfers require a background check, right? (The transfers that don't require a background check are private sales in certain states) Or are you saying that people want these restrictions to be rolled back?
- resoluteteeth 7y ago> Or are you saying that people want these restrictions to be rolled back? This. As far as I am aware, the NRA is now believes people should be able to own fully automatic weapons although that wasn't always their position. (And they obviously are against restrictions on semiautomatic weapons since their California division had sued the government about them.)