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by yowzadave 444 days ago
Can you point to any actual real-world cases where something like this has happened? It sounds like a movie concept; we're letting real-world policy be determined by a fantasy people have about a lone gun enthusiast killing a bunch of drug cartel members?
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Warsaw ghetto uprising bought some people a few extra days (and a couple women their lives spared), which is better than nothing.
I really hope your example remains a straw man argument, and not something that Americans are going to have to face up to in the next few years.
Nope! I agree it's something out of a movie, but real world people do actually have such arsenals. I'm not embedded enough in gun culture to have any personal stories/know of any news reports, but not everything makes the news. I'm not making a comment on policy, just that such individuals exist.