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Originally posted by Oblivion437: You know, as the criminal situation gets worse, and they have access to heavier artillery on a mass scale, such as AK-47s, and a shitload of people start dying, they'll have to let law-abiding citizens own more powerful weapons. Not silencers, in the case of civil defense, silencers complicate things incalculably. I'm talking stuff with selective fire, like full sized machineguns, and there is NO WAY to mistake an unloaded machine gun. A child couldn't say it was an accident if they opened the belt box, found daddy's 200 rounds, put the first in, closed the box, chambered the bullet, and THEN blew his head off, now could you? I'm saying this type of legalization might occur in the far future, as our government grows more apathetic, and as the people face something ever closer to an organized army on the streets, it could happen. Of course, in such a Noir world, anyone who needed a machine gun would get one, regardless of the law. Of course, in such a Noir world, we'd already be dead, maybe our grandchildren would just be growing up.

Been reading a little too much 1984 and watching Pink Floyd perhaps?

But you raise valid points. The legislation is already there, it just hasnt been passed yet. I mean who really needs fully-automatic weapons for home defence? Seriously? Allowing a "remedy" is admiting there is a weakness. It means compensating for a weakness when they should be removing that weakness entirely. Its conceding defeat against illegal arms. And why introduce a cure that would be more potent than the cancer?