A .50 is dangerous. To argue the contrary demonstrates how far from reality your entire argument is.
Do we say nukes aren't dangerous because more people have been killed in the last 70 years by conventional weapons? Should chemical weapons be legal because sarin gas attacks have killed fewer people than handguns?
Jubbergun wrote:
Aestu wrote:
.50 rifles should be illegal for the same reason slavery should be illegal, which is that it is morally wrong that any one man have that kind of power in a civil society.
I thought slavery was wrong because depriving people of their liberty without due process and forcing them to toil without compensation was immoral and unethical. TIL, I guess. At least Mayo's not the only one pulling the race card now.
It's not a racial issue. Slavery became illegal in most countries centuries before race became an issue for just this reason. "Depriving people of their liberty without due process" and "forcing them to toil without compensation" is unchecked power. The same as depriving a man of his life by means of a bullet.
The power to take men's life and liberty is denied to the common citizen and monopolized by the state by reason of the democratic mandate.
No individual citizen has the right to hold another in bondage than he does to take another's life. And without the right to act, he is not entitled to the power thereof, either.