Neildo, I see your straw-man and raise you one post full of hyperbole.
Say, what about the bearing arms part of the 2nd amendment? Why don't the gun-nuts get all fuming over that one? I mean, say I'm in Nevada - a rather gun-friendly state, I'm allowed to own pretty much any old gun I like, and by old gun I mean Browning M2 .50 cal machine gun, but if I mount that sucker on top of my hummer you KNOW I’m gonna' get pulled over, and my vehicle's gonna' be impounded - just for bearing the arm. To make things worse, I can't just walk around waving a hand gun around, just brandishing a weapon is a crime in most places! Friggiln' liberal pussies ruin all the fun of owning a gun - if I can't put on my "fag patrol" t-shirt and sling a rifle over my shoulder and march around outside of gay-bars, then what the hell is the point of owning a gun anyway?
Um, your argument may have worked better if instead of taking some drastic thing such as putting a .50 cal on a truck, you would have argued people not being allowed to own fully automatic weapons. Many assault rifles people own are fully automatic for miltitarized use but are tweaked to only be semi-automatic (can only fire one shot per trigger pull, which, by the way, many liberals tend to think semi-automatic means FULLY automatic). I'm surprised you didn't just use some silly argument of why citizens can't own nuclear missles.
But hey, as for your argument, it may be legal to mount a .50 cal onto one's vehicle in other states outside of Kalifornia, if you have the proper permit just as one can own a fully automatic weapon with a class III license (hard as hell to get, usually only firearms dealers have one). People can already own helicopters, tanks, airplanes, and all sorts of older military weaponry, they just need the proper permit. You can even drive tanks on highways! Heck, our own governor, Mr. Swartzenegger owns a couple German tanks that he used to drive while he was in the German military before moving to the United States.
I don't know about your "fag patrol" t-shirt, but they may be legal. I don't know why it wouldn't be. As for not being able to brandish a gun, that's a safety law. It doesn't restrict your freedom of being able to own a gun or defend yourself though. Go ahead and brandish your gun if you want, but you'll have the high risk of being shot having someone think you were threatening or holding someone up. I'd rather a law like that not be around because then we'd get rid of more idiots. Just like for those 59% that voted on the banning of handguns in San Franciso, I hope THEY become the victims of crime so their kind will no longer be around to procreate. Too bad the other half that voted will suffer for their ignorance.
But you see, that's the complete difference between a bullshit law in San Franciso vs a law about your .50 cal or fully automatic weapon restrictions. We CAN do all of the above, we just need the proper permit to be allowed to do so. San Franciso is banning COMPLETE ownership of handguns, period, even if you own a business you cannot defend yourself with one. Only law enforcement and security personnel are allowed to own them. I don't know how those with current concealed weapons permits are affected, but I'd assume they won't be able to use them either. Did you know that even before this ban in San Francisco, they were so restrictive that in their whole county, only TEN civilians were issued a concealed weapons permit? And I know one of them only because he's a bodyguard for a multi-millionaire technology buff in Silicon Valley. In most other counties, you'll have at least 500+ people that are issued those permits.
- N
P.S. I like you Mysech. I'm actually Liberal (but politically independent), but in the Thomas Jeffersonian way where I believe 100% in our Bill of Rights, Constitution, etc. I just hate the hippie liberals as they're the ones that try to restrict our freedoms. I'm not an ignorant type to pass laws like these that restrict our freedoms and our right to defend ourselves. They think criminals are gonna hand in their guns and the police will always be around to protect us. Yeah friggin right. Those types should be deported to New Orleans.