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[quote=Anonymous]As I understand it, those who oppose restrictions on military assault weapons and high capacity magazines fall into two camps.

The first is those who just enjoy shooting the most powerful weapons they can get their hands on, hopefully only at a shooting range.  They may view this as a "cool" hobby, which is understandable on some level.  But others may view possessing and shooting off certain high explosives as cool also, but government regulates and even prohibits such substances because of the dangers of misuse and that the materials will fall into the wrong hands.

The second argument is one advanced by extreme gun rights advocates.  They claim that the Second Amendment effectively gives the citizenry the same right of access to weapons that the government may possess.  The concept is sthat the citizenry should be sufficiently armed to resist the government by all forcible means if necessary.  So if the military has assault weapons and high capacity magazines so should Joe Public.  Where this breaks down is that the federal government also has lethal drones and even nuclear weapons, but does anyone think that the Second Amendment confers a right of access to those?  Oh, and the notion that the Second Amendment is basically immune to regulation and restriction conveniently overlooks the "well regulated" language in the text itself (and Supreme Court cases).

The latter argument is championed basically by the same folks who are obsessed with black helicopters and believe that FEMA has secretly bought thousands of railcars from China and modern guillotines with the plan of rounding up and killing Christian patriots in federal extermination camps.  (I am not making this up -- Google it.)[/quote]

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