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In reply to the discussion: You must remember: What is most important about gun control [View all]oneshooter
(8,614 posts)11. Yes you can own a tank. All it takes is the want, and money.
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What I think you need to understand, my friend, is that correct terminology and definitions are key in
SayWut
Jan 2013
#4
Well, insult aside, from what I've been reading here lately, I might as well go to my
SayWut
Jan 2013
#9
You mean instead of "thingie that holds lots o'bullets," call it "that mag thingie"? nt
Honeycombe8
Jan 2013
#5
Yes... And They Apparently Don't Understand That There Has Been Gun Control For Many Decades Now...
WillyT
Jan 2013
#7
You can talk about gun control in whatever terms you want, but if you want to write
petronius
Jan 2013
#8
and that is why our elected legislators have knowledgeable staffs and the committees to which
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#22
We are not legislators (mostly), but we are discussing what we think policy ought to look like
petronius
Jan 2013
#34
Well, I probably should know more about many of the finer points on this administration's
CTyankee
Jan 2013
#35
Well of course the reason for this is that if the folks discussing gun control on DU don't
Squinch
Jan 2013
#10
The General Public Is Never Going to Have An Encyclopedic Understanding of Firearm Tech
Yavin4
Jan 2013
#25
The knowledge is needed by those trying to legislate more than the public in general
ProgressiveProfessor
Jan 2013
#33