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In reply to the discussion: Universal Background Checks for firearms [View all]edgineered
(2,101 posts)18. Concur with petronius and kang colby,
to wit, distrust of authorities to circumvent due process and loss of stature at bargaining table.
eta: for example, someone not unlike some of the malicious posters to this group could easily report that organized gun owners plan to demonstrate or gather at a public place at such a time and place and such activity is threatening to them and is within x number of feet from y, a safe zone for example. Another case could be that a threat was received, real or not, and for public safety all weapons within a given area are to be accounted or worse until expiration of a given time (that time would then be challenged), etc, etc.
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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