(08-11-2019 03:08 PM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(08-11-2019 10:54 AM)Fort Bend Owl Wrote:  Any death via gun - whether suicide, one-on-one killing, or a nutjob killing innocents - is unfortunate and costs our society unnecessary grief and money.

Same as any death via a motor vehicle.

I think the numbers on suicides are brought up because the antigun lobby cites the largest numbers possible and intimates that their solutions would make a sizable dent (80%) in that giant number.

And that is why we have a lot of regulations on vehicles. How fast you can drive them, what tests you need to pass to operate them, what annual activities you need to do to legally use them, where you can drive them, how they can be modified, etc.

Is your issue with the majority of the hypothetical gun control legislation, the legislation itself and what it would limit? Or is it that you view these potential regulations and infringements on the 2nd Amendment? In other words, let’s say the 2nd amendment does not exist - would you be opposed to a law that banned all semi-automatic rifles?