What Would It Hurt?

The topic of gun control is everywhere now. And depending on who you listen to, apparently we need fewer guns, or maybe just a whole lot more of them. Honestly, I don’t know what the best policy is.

It seems logical to me that if we have fewer guns, we’d have fewer gun crimes, but I’m told that’s naive, and maybe it is. It would also seem to me that, while the second amendment says we are allowed to carry firearms, it doesn’t necessarily say we get to have assault rifles and high capacity clips. A lot of people think it does though. But if the second amendment says there can be no limits of any kind on firearms, then can I own a tank as well? How about Cruise Missiles? Even nuclear ones, I suppose.

And I’ve read tons of reasons why limiting assault rifles and high capacity clips wouldn’t solve anything anyway. Such as:

• If someone wants a weapon bad enough, he’s always going to be able to get it. In other words, the criminals will always have them, and a ban will just hurt us good guys.
• If the shooters didn’t have these apparent weapons of choice, they could just strap multiple handguns on themselves, and that would serve just as well.
• It’s possible to kill people just as easily with hammers and knives, so what’s the point.

Maybe these reasons are valid. Maybe banning these things wouldn’t solve anything. I honestly don’t know.

But my question is, what would it hurt? I mean, if we're talking about hunting or self defense, we can probably get by with lesser weapons, couldn't we? Now I know that a lot of people want to have these weapons. But I hate stopping at red lights. I want to cruise right through them. Really I do, I hate stopping all the time. But I do stop. Because I figure I can make that sacrifice for the public safety. Doesn’t that apply here?

I’m not saying they should take your guns. Really, I'm not. I’m not even saying to ban assault rifles. I honestly don’t know the answer. I just wonder “What possibly could it hurt?”