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In reply to the discussion: Justice Stevens Scolds NRA & Suggests: The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment [View all]CTyankee
(68,160 posts)250. it depends on where you live, doesn't it?
In CT, you won't get far with a pro-gun (as you describe it) agenda.
My larger point is that your "large segment of voters" is shrinking if you look at it from voter trends. We have more urban and non-white and also more women voters because of demographics.
You have to worry about that.
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Justice Stevens Scolds NRA & Suggests: The five extra words that can fix the Second Amendment [View all]
kpete
Apr 2014
OP
Yes, and more than half of Americans thing creationism should be taught in schools.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#37
What exactly do you think we are #1 at? Sure isn't gun deaths by a long shot. n/t
EX500rider
Apr 2014
#195
Actually there are over 100 countries with a higher homicide rate then the US.
EX500rider
Apr 2014
#225
Both the president and the Democratic party platform call it an individual right.
hack89
Apr 2014
#69
Only if you consider the most expansive view of civil liberties a RW point of view
hack89
Apr 2014
#100
Required insurance!!!! That is brilliant and makes perfect sense. Which means the NRA will smother
Dark n Stormy Knight
Apr 2014
#193
The NRA would love it- they're the biggest seller of gun insurance in the US
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2014
#204
I do not feel like pointlessly arguing against NRA talking points beyond this:
Moostache
Apr 2014
#311
That's not what I asked. Does the BoR limit rights? Simple yes or no will suffice.
X_Digger
Apr 2014
#121
Don't be silly with this "yes or no" game. Your question is nonsensical and irrelevant wordplay.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#122
That's a lovely straw man. Nobody said the rights protected by the BoR were unlimited.
X_Digger
Apr 2014
#126
Talking about the "existence" of rights in some metaphysical plane is basically nonsensical.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#153
You think the intent was that anyone could carry a gun anywhere at any time?? nt
Logical
Apr 2014
#59
Did you post that from inside a properly designated "Free Speech Zone"?
Nuclear Unicorn
Apr 2014
#70
That sounds distinctly like a complaint from supporters of Bundy the Trespasser.
Loudly
Apr 2014
#79
And you feel compelled to not have guns to protect yourself from criminals with guns.
Nuclear Unicorn
Apr 2014
#117
How come the "rest of a lunatic nation" does not have the crime rate Chicago has?
former9thward
Apr 2014
#118
Apples and oranges. NH is not a dense super-metropolis. Europe destroys your case.
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2014
#278
Pretty broad condemnation on the face of a lack of evidence.I assure you, the Bill of Rights is ...
marble falls
Apr 2014
#96
The quotes stand. My rights are not to abridge anyone else's. Its the mass murderer crack.....
marble falls
Apr 2014
#138
When someone tries to take away Constitutional rights I always say it to their faces.
former9thward
Apr 2014
#141
If that were true, then why did northern, non-slave-owning states also pass state versions?
X_Digger
Apr 2014
#127
That's a moot point because WE WEREN'T EVEN CONSIDERED TO BE HUMAN BEINGS...
Ecumenist
Apr 2014
#276
Actually, only the right-wing justices believed that 2A applies outside of militia service.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#18
"EIGHT of the judges agreed that the 2nd Amendment was an Individual right"
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#73
And I didn't contradict it, so why you keep repeating this is anyone's guess
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#237
So if you carve out the heart of the Democratic Party, gun control is a "loser"
Major Nikon
Apr 2014
#242
Not at all. First of all, there is nothing remotely progressive about revising the second amendment
DanTex
Apr 2014
#24
You keep claiming the individual rights view of the 2A was created by the modern right wing
bossy22
Apr 2014
#40
That's because it's true. If you read the Stevens article, or further read his dissent in Heller,
DanTex
Apr 2014
#46
WaPo editorials don't usually include citations. His dissent in Heller has citations.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#62
There's plenty of historical evidence that 2A was designed to protecting militias.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#71
Except the same people who wrote the federal constitution wrote the state constitutions
hack89
Apr 2014
#92
Before Heller, yes, the federal government could impose laws that impinged on the right to
DanTex
Apr 2014
#106
Not at all. You are essentially arguing that there should be no difference at all between
DanTex
Apr 2014
#115
What he is saying is that it protect states from having their militias disarmed by the federal
DanTex
Apr 2014
#28
but wouldn't this mean that the individual rights interpretation pre-dated the modern right wing?
bossy22
Apr 2014
#61
Funny, the gungeoneers don't seem to care much about the "no whining about DU" part of the TOS...
DanTex
Apr 2014
#288
Don't be modest! You don't need any help getting the NRA talking points right. You're a master!
DanTex
Apr 2014
#307
If only those five words could fix our fucked up corporate and MIC owned government.
L0oniX
Apr 2014
#34
No fix. Fight would shift to meaning of militia and private militias would fester all over. nt
Bernardo de La Paz
Apr 2014
#93
So our founding fathers would think its OK to go into people's homes and take their firearms?
davidn3600
Apr 2014
#110
So Hamilton said that those who are not peaceable citizens have no right to bear arms n/t
eridani
Apr 2014
#275
People who use guns in a crime shouldn't own a gun...even the NRA agrees with that
davidn3600
Apr 2014
#283
Right or no right. It doesn't matter. We have the right now and it isn't helping.
gtar100
Apr 2014
#113
This is off-topic for GD. If the goal is a discussion of this subject, post it in the Gungeon.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#183
Why is it that advocates of civilian disarmament get so upset when asked to follow the rules in GD?
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#194
one did on one of the posts. went down in flames. I was one juror who sent it down...
CTyankee
Apr 2014
#224
Have at it. You'll need 34 states and 2/3rds of both Houses of Congress to agree...
friendly_iconoclast
Apr 2014
#203
I'm not talking about gerrymandered congressional districts...I'm talking about
CTyankee
Apr 2014
#252
But popular vote is spread in Senate races into state wide (read urban) areas so you
CTyankee
Apr 2014
#254
"Just you wait" has been the slogan of the gun control movement for 20 years now
hack89
Apr 2014
#256
well, since your prime example is a state with two REPUBLICAN senators, I am sure you will be
CTyankee
Apr 2014
#257
Please try not to be so thin skinned. You were making your point using a state with two
CTyankee
Apr 2014
#281
But who doesn't understand that point? It points to another issue that we can leave to debate
CTyankee
Apr 2014
#284
LOL. You sure seem to know a lot about DU customs for someone who joined a few weeks ago.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#245
The point was to protect state militias from being disarmed by the federal government.
DanTex
Apr 2014
#287
Further discussion with hosts has revealed that some do not agree with locking; so have unlocked it
LeftishBrit
Apr 2014
#325