Liberal Gun Owners

Man if only it was actually like how cars are regulated.

Required training, tests, insurance needs and has to be safe for others.

Funny comparing guns to cars. I need a drivers license to operate a car, something I will be tested for and have to renew regularly. A car has a registration number that is registered to me and a license plate with the state that gets renewed regularly. Also insurance is required, the cost of which goes up if I'm irresponsible.

...killed 10 people on the interstate.

Regardless of the rest, this is like saying that guns would be confiscated because someone shot 10 people at a shooting range.

If it were a regular occurrence that people were driving cars through classrooms, like it is with shooting into them, then the conversation around regulating cars would look a lot more similar to the one about guns.

I enjoy and own guns. Ive used them for hunting, I’ve used one in self defense (no shots fired). Sensible laws regarding guns are just fine by me.

To drive that car, she had to take a class, get experience under an instructor/valid driver, take a paper test, take a practical test.

This is not the gotcha you think it is. As a gun owner, I'm for responsible gun control, and this meme is anti-gc.

Not trying to compare these two things, but as a German it always stroke me as odd that many Americans will go to any lengths in order to defend their right to bear arms, but they all totally accept the fact that there's not a single highway in the US without a speed limit.

In Germany, it seems to be the other way round. Noone really cares that guns are strictly regulated but most people will fiercely oppose the introduction of speed limits with the same level of fanaticism of American gun nuts.

This argument is bad and you should feel bad

Funny, the only politician I've ever heard actually talk about taking away/seizing guns was Donald Trump

They must all really hate him for that, right?

But for real though, maybe we do also get rid of cars? Why not build more public transit and less drunk driving accidents? The only especially bad part of this is the police.

How does one drunk driver even kill 10 people before dying themselves?

I'm up for banning all cars slowly.

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It's an analogy, that's how they work.

And it's not a really flawed one. But the big difference is that Cars are tools, they have legitimate and important usecases outside killing people and they are much harder to kill people with since it's relatively easy to flee from a car, they tend to get stuck in tight spaces

Which imo makes cars okay to own.

But yes, cars are also super dangerous, look at the Christmas-market attacks over here in Europe. And nobody wants to ban cars.

I like the implication that guns are equal to cars in terms of necessity. Some people can't leave their homes without driving, and some people (cowards) can't leave their suburban house without their emotional support weapon.

This is some peak dumb shit.

I agree that cars are over-dispensed.

I wonder how they feel about sobriety checkpoints.

The 2nd amendment literally doesn’t provide them the right to a weapon.

If it did, particularly for the reason they say, literally killing a politician would be legal if you could prove “their tyranny”. That’s the biggest load of bullshit.

It’s a simple provision that provides the States with the right to arm their own militias.

So many chode Americans believe “theyre the miltia!!!”. The government also defines that, though, and it’s … not everyone. Its only males 18-45, and women in the Guard. That’s it. So the only people the 2nd amendment could even begin to logically and legally allow a weapon are healthy, able bodied males 18-45 and trained women. And they don’t really need to prove theyre able bodied, so every fat guy with a gun is breaking constitutional law