Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)It's a reference to the public sphere. Casa e rura, house and street, private and public sphere. When guns are out in circulation, they are in the public and therefore have the capacity to kill, which is of course what they are designed for.
You aren't about choice. You're about imposing YOUR choices on everyone else. You have guns, yet you're pissed off that some might willingly turn in their guns in a buyback program. You have the right to concealed carry, but you are angry that other jurisdictions don't want that right, so you will enforce it on them.
There is a basic fact that guns are far more deadly in cities than rural and exurban areas, which is why views on guns break down so differently according to geographic location. That is also why cities like to create their own gun policies in the interest of public safety. You know all that. So the question is why do you insist on imposing a rural exurban world view and policy on places where you don't live. You quite obviously don't respect the right of urban communities to make those choices. The result is also higher homicide rates. The only question is then whether gun zealots simply don't care about that or whether it's actually their goal. When it comes to the NRA and much of it's most active membership, I'm quite confident it's the latter.