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In reply to the discussion: Universal Background Checks for firearms [View all]DonP
(6,185 posts)5. By all means, get off the couch and get started
Or are you just talk and no real action?
Petitions need to be drafted and circulated. As a leader in the gun control movement, who better to get the ball rolling.
Start with all your professor buddies at UT.
You'll need 2/3s of both houses of Congress and 3/4 of the states approval.
Figure at least, oh maybe three to five years worth of work to get things started.
Or are you assuming someone else will do the grunt work? Or that there's some short cut to amending the constitution if you have the "high moral ground"?
I'm thinking ... all you'll do is talk it to death, then run away when someone questions what you are doing in the real world.
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Giving Gun Worshipers another Amendment to further Sanctify their Religion is not an step forward.
stone space
Oct 2015
#3
Sounds like my experience with describing Chicago gun laws as Jim (large, raucous black bird).
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#32
This is a reasonable proposal for this gun owner...Controllers? Not so much.
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#27
I am skeptical because much of the rhetoric here and elsewhere is characterized...
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#49
"...believe drugs should be illegal?" From The Anti-Ammosexual Handbook of Reality?
Eleanors38
Oct 2015
#33