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07-31-2005, 02:04 PM
If someone has an unregistered gun, they are breaking our laws.
If someone is carrying a registered gun, without a permit to carry, they are breaking our laws.
If someone builds a nuclear explosive in their basement, they are breaking our laws.
It seems pretty cut and dry.
However, somehow we manage to muster sympathy for our favourite superheroes, despite the rogue nature of some of those favourites. I suppose it could be chalked up to the focus of the stories we read of them, which play on our human nature and invite sympathy. But really ...
... if all of a sudden people started popping up in our world here around us with the destructive capabilties of a nuclear missle, be it via science, ahem, "natural" mutation, or hi-tech, would that not demand somekind of legislation and accountability?
Really, who would have a problem with mutants (as well as other "supers") being required to register? We require gun owners to register. Any we don't allow possession of automatic weapons, explosives, and weapons of mass destruction outside of special police units and the military, so would anyone really have problem if an unsanctioned super was forced to wear power suppressors and faced stiff penalties if they were unlawfully removed? Or even forcefully labotamized (sp?), ie. disarmed?
I mean really, if you don't have super-powers yourself, then a super-powered world would be a scarey world to live in. Would you oppose such registration and contraints on supers, or would you be cool with all of these supers walking around, freely and unmoderated, with their powers, while normal ol' you can't even carry around a derringer without breaking the law?
If someone is carrying a registered gun, without a permit to carry, they are breaking our laws.
If someone builds a nuclear explosive in their basement, they are breaking our laws.
It seems pretty cut and dry.
However, somehow we manage to muster sympathy for our favourite superheroes, despite the rogue nature of some of those favourites. I suppose it could be chalked up to the focus of the stories we read of them, which play on our human nature and invite sympathy. But really ...
... if all of a sudden people started popping up in our world here around us with the destructive capabilties of a nuclear missle, be it via science, ahem, "natural" mutation, or hi-tech, would that not demand somekind of legislation and accountability?
Really, who would have a problem with mutants (as well as other "supers") being required to register? We require gun owners to register. Any we don't allow possession of automatic weapons, explosives, and weapons of mass destruction outside of special police units and the military, so would anyone really have problem if an unsanctioned super was forced to wear power suppressors and faced stiff penalties if they were unlawfully removed? Or even forcefully labotamized (sp?), ie. disarmed?
I mean really, if you don't have super-powers yourself, then a super-powered world would be a scarey world to live in. Would you oppose such registration and contraints on supers, or would you be cool with all of these supers walking around, freely and unmoderated, with their powers, while normal ol' you can't even carry around a derringer without breaking the law?