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Originally Posted by rudedog

Sounds kind of stupid doesn't it?

You are missing the point here. Cars are not designed to kill, guns are. Using your argument we might as will give the right to civilians to store/carry anthrax or small pox? Or what about land mines? Or fully-functional tanks (i.e. with a working gun)? We can trust people not to drive down the centre of town and fire a few shells into a building, right? Or at the least it the individual would be to blame and not our lack of control as a society. Right?

You can't trust people. They are stupid. Sorry, but that is the way it goes. Those who moan about being able to fire a couple of rounds off will soon find something else to keep themselves amused. It won't kill them.