Take every argument you want from a pro-gun point of view. Sometimes you can even take the same "facts." Pro-gun or anti-gun, most people just spin a thought until it fits the world they want to believe in. Cognitive dissonance.
This is were several of you will make me out as a liberal or anti-gun and let me know I'm the one with cognitive dissonance. Good for you. As long as you and like minded people agree you feel you have scored one for the team.
I am guilty of cognitive dissonance. It is a great human failure. But I know I don't have all the answers. I don't have all the facts. I do have one solution for my life. I own guns (mostly for hunting), I practice, I carry.
I would like the world to be a better place. If steps can be taken in that direction, good. For me, everything is on the table. Don't start the, "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." quote-a-thon. You can also advance many wrongs in the name of liberty.
It is an irony that so many who see this when it comes to something like free expression but can't see the possibility when it comes to the right to bear arms.
The poll stated: Yes, would keep ammo from BG. No, because the gov will know how much ammo I buy. I'm sticking with the yes option. I value my life, my neighbors life, etc. over my feelings about privacy concerning ammo.
I just bought 850 rounds of ammo tonight. Thats 550 / .22 LR, 100 / .357 SIG, & 100 / 9mm). At the Wal-Mart counter I was asked, "Are these for a handgun?" I could have lied. Instead I said, "Yup." He asked for ID, I provide. I then had a choice to make. Cash, check, or charge.
I paid CASH.
I always pay cash for all my handgun ammo. I almost never use cash for any other purchase. On a monthly, sometimes weekly, basis, I demonstrate clearly how much I want to let "big brother" know.
In less 12 hours I will have used all 850 rounds. I feel good about my essential liberty when it comes to firearms (even if Wal-Mart asked to see my ID). Thank God I live in a country like the USA.