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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Our militias could definitely stand to be regulated better [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)54. If we can't find out now, how will we in november?
Every Dem is for background checks...
That doesn't make them necessary, or mean that theres a real world problem - real world, as in outside the minds of anti-gun idealogues - that needs solving in the first place. You didn't really think your lack of enthusiasm on discussing that subject went unnoticed, did you?
Once again the 2nd will be seen as a community right and not an individual right. Like it has historically been.
Amendment 2 is a restriction on government which contains no specificity where individual or collective exercise of the right is concerned. So you are wrong, and that undeniable fact proves it.
Where were all those compromises when out of controller CCW and open carry laws were passed?
They're called the national firearms act of 1934, the gun control act of 1968, and so on and so on.
And we aren't done balancing the scales for their heft just yet either.
Now will come those compromises. Unless Trump or Cruz get elected, yuk, yuk.
Yeah, right after you find a way to do away with pro-gun Democrats, namely the ones that get elected to office. I suppose you could vote for Bloomberg, since that would dovetail with his anti-gun ideology, since that seems to be his goal as well.
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The government sometimes squelches seditious speech but that doesn't abrogate the 1A.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#10
Neither Shay's nor Washington's actions hold any bearing on others or the context of the 2A
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#12
The 1958 and 1993 amendments do not strike the provisions of the unorganized militia --
Nuclear Unicorn
Jan 2016
#29
My neighbor's cat and I can call ourselves a "militia," like fundy bundy. Doesn't make it so.
Eleanors38
Jan 2016
#17
America's gunslinger mentality makes us look like fools to the rest of the world. n/t
Binkie The Clown
Jan 2016
#51
"Open carry nuts insist this stuff never happens." Feh- mere Colonism on your part:
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2016
#63