Gun Control

Having a discussion (more like hearing a lecture) about gun control with a coworker recently. He was going on about the restriction on the Barrett .50-caliber sniper rifle, and how it is unwieldy and expensive and not the sort of weapon that can be used to hold up a store or a bank. He made a very compelling case that the rifle was of no interest to criminals.

I said to him, “well what do you expect? These are politicians passing the laws.” I think he expected me to make some point about politicians being idiots but he wasn’t quite sure what I was talking about, so he said, “Yeah, and…?”

“Well, what’s the ONE crime you could use a highly-accurate insanely- powerful long-range sniper rifle for?”

He cracked up and admitted that the Barrett ban would never come off the books.