The Illinois State Supreme Court found a strict assault weapons ban passed after the Highland Park shooting to be constitutional in a ruling issued Friday.

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      I don’t want either. But since I assume you’re implying these are illegal, landmines are legal for citizens to own with either an NFA tax stamp (about $200 each) or with a SOT/FFL (about $600/year) and napalm like substances are easy to produce yourself (I’m not sure on its legal standing, but retro enthusiast criminals who want to hurt people with napalm aren’t exactly concerned with the law).

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        Ooh ooh ooh, my favorite!

        criminals exist and do not follow the law, therefore law should not exist

        totally a big smart boy take and definitely NOT smooth brained nonsense

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          Not what I said. You’re extrapolating what you think someone who is pro gun rights would say.

          I can clarify or answer questions about my position, but you clearly are just looking to “own” a random person on Lemmy not actually have a conversation.

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            Not the person you replied to, but I’ll give you a chance. I’m not American, but I do hunt and own guns.

            Why are you against the government having a licensing program before giving access to firearms?

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              The American understanding of rights is that they are inherent and bestowed upon all of not by the government but by right at birth.

              We have the right to criticize our government not because they let us but because that’s a right all humans have. Even if the government decided tomorrow that the First Amendment doesn’t apply anymore we would still have that right, because the First Amendment didn’t grant us a right it simply acknowledged the existing right.

              If your ability to practice a right is contingent on government approval your rights are being impeded.

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                Are you equating owning a gun with criticizing the government? Because I’m not seeing the connection.

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                  The connection is both are natural rights recognized in the Bill of Rights that should be held with equal reverence. They are the second and first amendments respectively.

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                    How is owning a gun a ‘natural right’ when guns didn’t even exist for the vast, vast majority of human existence? That doesn’t make sense either.

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                  Owning a gun is the logical step from the natural right to defend your life. If you are under threat of death by another individual, why in the fuck would you ever willingly put yourself at a disadvantage. Does your moral grounds of guns = bad really overvalue the rest of your natural life?

                  Someone invades your home, you grab a knife, congratulations knives are far more dangerous than a gun for every participant of the struggle and you have now made it statistically more likely to accidentally kill yourself. You use your hands, disadvantaged against someone with a weapon, death.

                  The point is literally that you have a personal freedom from birth to keep yourself alive and in a world that has afforded us better and better tools to ensure that, use them.

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                    Statistically, having a gun in your home is more dangerous for you and your family, especially if you have young children or teens. A 2014 review in the Annals of Internal Medicine concluded having a firearm in the home, even when it’s properly stored, doubles your risk of becoming a victim of homicide and triples the risk of suicide.3

                    https://www.safewise.com/resources/guns-at-home/

                    Doesn’t sound like an advantage to me.

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                That doesn’t completely ring true. The Second was written to ensure the well-regulated militia (which has slowly morphed into a standing military) that would be needed to protect the free society.

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                  The militia that was comprised of and armed by the people. That well regulated part meaning fully functional by being trained in tactics and doctrine to work with other militias and divisions. The Militia Act further confirmed the individual right to arms, outlining that the members were required to report with their own guns, ammo, and rations. While we may have a standing army now, and the reserves and Guard units, that doesn’t change the fact that the Second was and is an individual right to military arms for personal and State protection. If anyone believes that we no longer need this, then find enough people that agree to amend the constitution. Until then, we don’t get to pick and choose which rights get defended.

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                    An individual right that you yourself seem to agree requires proper training in tactics and doctrine.

                    There’s a huge gap between a well-trained, disciplined gun owner and these “guns as my personality” chucklefucks that have absolutely no discipline in their behavior.

                    Licensure is one tool to separate the wheat from the chaff, and it doesn’t violate the above percepts as long as it doesn’t impose a substantial financial burden.

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          I love it when they say that. Guess what? Criminals don’t follow murder and rape laws when they murder and rape people. Should those laws be taken off the books too?

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            CLEARLY nothing because everyone knows that misrepresenting your opponent to force your own dogma into the conversation without any level of actual intelligence just to get the heckin moral superiorityino is the proper way to discuss these days.

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              Can you enlighten me on that? How does it work if you want to ban “assault weapons” and defund the police? Isn’t that counter intuitive? A police state is almost required to enforce the laws that are put in place like this. I have a difficult time understanding how that works.

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            My firearms and I will be completely fine.

            All of the rotting corpses of school shooting victims may have an issue though

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                Care to explain your arguments there or are you just being emotional?

                Tons of children dead in America. Tons of school shootings. Once we decided Sandy Hook was fine and acceptable and did absolutely nothing to help prevent something like it from happening again, our fate was sealed. Regardless of whether you or anyone else think that’s irrelevant or invalid or moronic is all well and good, it won’t bring them back

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        Ah, so then you understand that the government is allowed to regulate and distribute the usage of some weapons, glad you pointed that out.