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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: YES, THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY [View all]LonePirate
(13,893 posts)18. Tens of millions may feel that right is important but tens of millions also vote Republican.
Form your own conclusions but clearly tens of millions of people can be wrong about something.
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You know, I don't fear confiscation because the controllers don't have the juice...
Eleanors38
Nov 2015
#4
So your support of something in the Constitution is not extreme but my support is?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#20
You're essentially saying incrementalism is worse than thousands of needless deaths each year.
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#25
We may disagree on the need to repeal the 2A but I do respect your overall Constitution support
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#30
Whose approach is in question? Was this meant to be satirical or do you actually believe this?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#12
Tens of millions may feel that right is important but tens of millions also vote Republican.
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#18
If you want to talk objectively, then people obviously don't need guns - they simply want them.
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#27
I suppose you have a Scarlet Letter system to identify that alleged .1%, right?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#31
You said to focus on the .1% but you never said how to do it. How are we to identify them?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#33
When multiple people are murdered regularly with a knife or billy club or other object
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#40
Gun lovers, like most lovers, will do anything to protect the beloved....that is clear enough.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#62
.....snip....snip...sniping logic from the debate is of course all the gun lovers have to work with.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#8
Makes sense - the only way to drastically reduce levels of gun-related crime/violence is to
jmg257
Nov 2015
#10
Reduce the number of guns is indeed the only solution now....control the guns by not having them!
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#47
How do you propose to get the 20-25% of the population that own guns to acquiesce?
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#57
Gun love is unquenchable...you have to take away the object of the love.....the gun.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#56