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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some laws make sense. Like, "Don't take other peoples' stuff."

[b]Others make no sense, like "You should go to prison if your lobster is half an inch too short."[/b] (google it)

Telling people they can't have guns that look scary falls into the second category.[/quote]

A rule like this makes sense if you understand that harvesting Lobsters before they have had a chance to procreate will leave the ocean without lobsters. So ya, it makes sense.[/quote]
You how I know you didn't google it?

The guy's name was Abner Schoenwetter, and he imported some lobsters from Honduras, some of which were measured to be "too short". He was convicted of violating the Lacey Act which required him to follow Honduran law, and imprisoned. And yet Honduras filed an amicus brief disavowing the very law he was convicted on. He spent six and a half years in federal prison because a bureaucrat wanted to show who was boss.

Now tell me how a rifle with a 15.9" barrel is so much more deadly than a rifle with a 16" barrel that mere possession is a felony.  Or why scary looking guns are more dangerous than non-scary looking guns that function identically.[/quote]

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