Yes the old woulda, shoulda, coulda's.
As the saying goes.
If if's and but's were candy and nuts we would all have a merrry Christmas.
lol never heard that one before
I imagine something else would eventually have happened instead to cause the restrictions. It's unlikely that you can exercise any freedom for very long without someone interfering.With the avid anti gun Kennedy on the way out I got to thinking What If...
There had been no machine gun ban / freeze (no class III requirement)....
There had been no Assignations hence no 1968 gun law...
Where would be be today? How big of a threat would the anti gun crowd be? Think of it and all the things that happened that would not be....
I imagine something else would eventually have happened instead to cause the restrictions. It's unlikely that you can exercise any freedom for very long without someone interfering.
What ifs can also drive you crazy.
What I want to know, is it true, what I've read, that the 1968 act was written using Hitler's gun laws?
There are tipping points, and then there are a whole slew of things that follow that are virtually inevitable, in one configuration or another. Rather than specific incidents that can have any number of unpredictable factors, macro-level trends are generally more reliable at both giving you a good indication of the way things are headed, and and vaguely predicting specific incidents that might act as turning points.I have pondered that thought more than once. Is it true that some developments are inevitable? Could it be that some major turning points in history are happenstance based on random events?
Without the JFK assassination and the LBJ Presidency, would the 68GCA have moved through Congress? What if JFK had chosen another VP yet still been elected and assassinated--would US history have been different? Suppose, just suppose, Nixon had campaigned just a bit better and obviously won the 60 election--I seriously believe the US today would be a substantially different country.
'What ifs' can provide a good way to help understand how the choices we make today really can affect the future...
Basically what I mean is...everyone moved to the safe comfortable suburbs, and the suburbs tend to slowly make a majority of people into wusses. From this, we get things like the GCA. Pasteurized milk and cheese is considered almost taboo. Most gyms don't even allow chalk anymore because they think people lifting real weights will scare off the soccer moms and girlie-men who are riding a stationary bike and watching Oprah, or trying to make spot exercises effective.Too many $5 words, so I'll just keep shut LOL...........................
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