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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Drusus, post: 711001, member: 6370&quot;]Well, I would rather not be on the road with my child and a drunk buffoon behind the wheel...but we still sell booze all over the nation don&#039;t we...and I am sure that there are plenty out there driving. Who is making sure those drunks dont kill ME on the road by keeping them from drinking? Doing something, or doing something ON it are completely separate issues....or should be.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>My main point is when one says if you outlaw guns or gold, then only outlaws will own them...that is true with anything. The government has been deciding what we can and cant do for our own good for quite a long time...more often just in the last 100 years. Many just don&#039;t care because it doesn&#039;t affect them because its something they don&#039;t do...but when it hits something they DO care about...THEN they get all up in arms about freedom. Many people wont care what the government does concerning gold because they don&#039;t BUY gold anyway. To say something like guns and gold are more essential freedoms than something else is just subjective. Again...you put what YOU care about above other things the government might criminalize.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>A guy who swills booze probably thinks he has the RIGHT to swill booze as long as he isn&#039;t hurting anyone...so if you ban booze then they will get all up in arms. He doesn&#039;t smoke pot, so he doesn&#039;t care if the government decides to ban it an make all those who smoke it criminals...even if their behavior in all things is not at all criminal...its all subjective. </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>People with guns often end up killing people, they are dangerous. Mix booze with guns and look out. I have a few guns, but if they outlawed guns tomorrow, it wouldnt effect me much. Others are very much into guns and to even mention the possibility of tightening gun laws will throw them into a rant about freedom.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>The government has decided in many many ways that they are there to protect us from ourselves, they are now trying to hit fast-food joints...I don&#039;t eat fast-food...so it doesn&#039;t effect ME. It is only when something popular is banned that gets people up in arms....even if that popular thing is potentially dangerous or fatal. In the end I care about all the things the government has banned to simply protect us from ourselves (not REAL crime of course like murder, rape, robbery, etc...) I don&#039;t buy a lot of gold, but I certainly want to keep that right.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Its amazing how a person can be for personal rights when it comes to what they care about, and seem to have no care in the world when its something they think doesn&#039;t effect them. It all affects you because you are supporting it and it sets one precedence after another until they are telling you what you can and cant eat, drink, wear, drive, etc....nuff said from me.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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