Are certain weapons too destructive and powerful for the general public to own?

Poll - Total Votes: 32

Yes

I don’t care

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If the guns are too powerful preventing police from engaging and saving lives, maybe they shouldn’t be available to the public.

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

I do not think the general public should own nuclear weapons. I think we can scale back from there but there's clearly a line of reasonableness.

Baremine · 70-79, C

@CountScrofula as a former weapons person in the USAF I have seen a lot of crazy bad weapons. Nuclear certified part of the time I served. My opinion is no body or no country needs nuclear weapons. The majority of all weapons are developed by private companies or individuals not the government.

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Baremine > The majority of all weapons are developed by private companies or individuals not the government.

Oh yeah this one I'm aware of. And of course nobody should have nuclear weapons they're horrific engines of death. My point is that if a weapon is too powerful for a nation to own, then clearly there are weapons too powerful for individuals to own.

Baremine · 70-79, C

@CountScrofula human beings are naturally evil and come up with horrible weapons. But food for thought I think I would prefer to be shot rather than to be chopped up with a sword or squirted with an arrow. Not that I want either. So having said that I love to target shoot but don't like to hunt. Killing is not my thing. But I would defend myself and my family. I am looking forward to when mankind beats their swords into plow shares