Interesting Logic Question:

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Originally Posted by Aquila

I think there is a misunderstanding here. These activists aren't against "guns". They are for mandatory safety courses for people, not guns. They are for more thorough background checks on people, not guns. They want stricter negligence penalties on people, not guns.

Some want to "ban" people from acquiring weapons they have no serious use for. Eh... I'm willing to entertain the notion of banning certain magazines or type of weapon. But I think the ban should expire in 5-10 years, after a national study on as to it's effectiveness. Please note... I'd rather not. But it's a political compromise. Why? Because I want something too; I want something that I know will never happen unless we give a little. I want to see the following:

- Schools, churches, businesses, and agencies able to opt out of being “gun free zones” so that they can allow “staff” with concealed weapons permits to carry.
- Better security and screening to enter schools.
- And escape doors in every classroom. In our security briefings one thing brought up was if an intruder were to go room to room breaching doors, the occupants of every room (or classroom in a school) are sitting ducks. There should be a way of escape. That way if an intruder does happen to get beyond security and start to open fire, rooms can lock down and begin evacuation.

We armed pilots and enhanced screening at airports… and we’ve not had another hijacking. Arm teachers and enhance security in schools and maybe we’ll not see anything of this magnitude again.

And… if we allow the ban to expire in 5 to 10 years, we’ll have a study on if the ban worked (which I predict it will be proven to have had little effect) , we can celebrate having not only worked together to make the country safer… but we will have expanded gun rights significantly.

There are varying degrees for gun laws and everybody has different ideas where the lines should be drawn. There are already some laws and waiting periods.

There are varying degrees for abortion laws too.

But banning guns and banning abortion are apples and oranges IMO.