j p o wrote:
slowguy wrote:
BarryP wrote:
You win. There are no safety regulations for cars and you can drive anything you want on the road.
Glad we had this discussion.
Certainly you understand the difference between regulating which cars can be driven on public roads, and regulating which guns are legal or illegal to own.
And certainly you can see the similarities.
I love how much this place hates an analogy. If I had an Oprah style list of my favorite things it would certainly be on it.
Of course there are vague similarities. But there are not enough similarities to create a meaningful analogy that would be useful in a gun control discussion.
There are not cars that are illegal to own because they look scary.
There are not, that I'm aware of, vehicles that are illegal to own because they are dangerous.
Car ownership is not a specifically protected right under the Constitution.
The ability to legally operate a care on a public road is not the same as the right to OWN a car.
The differences between Barry's car example and the issue of gun control proposals are extensive in both quality and quantity, such that the analogy is simply not a useful one.
Slowguy
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