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In reply to the discussion: I don't care what anyone thinks about their right to own guns [View all]Response to marym625 (Reply #315)
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I think we are fast approaching the day when people start publicly advocating for a repeal of the 2A
LonePirate
Aug 2015
#1
Twenty years ago, a national politician would never have supported marriage equality.
LonePirate
Aug 2015
#26
It wouldn't even do that. The bill of rights confers no rights. Repealing it removes none.
X_Digger
Aug 2015
#190
sure. that's why it's a national problem. I live in CT and could easily get to another
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#265
That's because no prominent figure on the left is willing to start the discussion.
LonePirate
Aug 2015
#106
Well the threadstarter doesn't care what anyone thinks. Is that a discussion,
closeupready
Aug 2015
#119
There are lots of guns but few gun owners. Only 32% of households have guns.
flamin lib
Aug 2015
#10
It's NOT paranoia, it's *precaution*... ANYONE can call and say they are Joe Blow conducting a poll
Ghost in the Machine
Aug 2015
#131
Asking a stranger on the telephone if they have a gun in their house is kind of like
the band leader
Aug 2015
#140
Come on now, you're a kook if you think it's 64%. It's probably more like 40% though.
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#147
Polls/surveys. There is probably some underreporting of data, but likely not as much as people
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#170
They could think it's a robber who is trying to target houses without guns. It could be people who
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#176
Yeah but I generally don't put much stock in speculation (which is why I trust the polls well enough
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#253
Oh for fuck's sake, I think my in laws would tell me if they own guns, I know my 93 year old
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#173
Pretty much. I'm pretty boring. Oh also I'm pretty sure my wife/partner doesn't have one
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#177
I trust polls/surveys with relative accuracy. Another good indicator is younger people are
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#183
If it weren't for the NRA's control over our Congress we would have achieved gun
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#263
Well it's a free country. You're free to leave. Free to lobby for change, too.
closeupready
Aug 2015
#8
I think authorities there concede less than a third have been "bought back"
Eleanors38
Aug 2015
#285
By the time you guys manage to ban guns, you won't be able to walk down the street
the band leader
Aug 2015
#11
You have no idea what you're talking about and that is why your fail is so epic.
the band leader
Aug 2015
#138
You filled your fourth gun safe with AKs and ammo yet, GG? Did you notice even Walmart is going to
Hoyt
Aug 2015
#194
So you are proving that the definition of "militia" is define in STATUTE
ThoughtCriminal
Aug 2015
#243
One more liberal judge out of the 9 and it would have been decided differently.
maxsolomon
Aug 2015
#187
I have no problem with registering guns either. Just not sure it solves anything.....
Logical
Aug 2015
#53
You and others really don't understand how insurance works or the effects of such a policy.
branford
Aug 2015
#133
And you don't distinguish between people that misuse guns and people that don't.
beevul
Aug 2015
#210
There are people out there that honestly believe ISIS in coming from Mexico.
Spitfire of ATJ
Aug 2015
#52
Yep those Sandy hook victims were selfish and the theatergoers and so on...
Katashi_itto
Aug 2015
#68
Her body, her choice. And your body, ALSO her choice, while she's at it, I guess.
closeupready
Aug 2015
#96
"murdered by guns" - you mean as opposed to murder by knives, bludgeoning, or drunks in cars?
jonno99
Aug 2015
#85
There is no question that these deaths were horrible, but a little perspective is helpful.
jonno99
Aug 2015
#76
Could be wrong, but haven't drunk driving deaths gone down a lot since the 70s?
MillennialDem
Aug 2015
#154
If you reject other people's thoughts, don't you basically reject democracy?
HereSince1628
Aug 2015
#118
I support her frustration, but I think she hasn't thought this thru the implications of her comments
HereSince1628
Aug 2015
#123
I think her irrational/emotional response is common. But it's hyperbolic.
HereSince1628
Aug 2015
#130
No, I think I am not so very wrong. I respect you, but I think you need to breathe.
HereSince1628
Aug 2015
#125
Starting a thread on an internet message board with "I don't care what anyone thinks..."
Snobblevitch
Aug 2015
#132
You have stated that you don't care what anyone thinks about their right to own guns.
Snobblevitch
Aug 2015
#266
Dontcha know a dead unarmed victim is morally superior to a live armed one?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#312
Yep, and we dont even have to do away with the 2nd, all we have to do is read it,
randys1
Aug 2015
#156
What exactly is the militia and how is it "nessesary to the security of a free state"?
the band leader
Aug 2015
#162
no, it's political organizing for a better presidential candidate who is brave enough to
CTyankee
Aug 2015
#181
Very few citizens own military grade weapons, those were outlawed in 86 except for the ones
GGJohn
Aug 2015
#220
So are you going to burst into republican homes and take their guns from them ?
Township75
Aug 2015
#232
Quill pens are also OK. Otherwise, the First Amendment doesn't apply
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#311
Would you hold the rest of the Constitution to the same standard that you would apply...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#310
So what are you doing to change it, aside from posting on the Internet?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#321
"I'm positive I'm doing more than you" What has that "doing" achieved,...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#324
You are free to ignore any and all of my questions, as well as any and of all my other posts
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#326
The toy, I mean gun, no longer has a positive outcome when comparing deaths to
randys1
Aug 2015
#301
No. I *will* keep talking about the Second (and First, Fourth, Fifth, Fourteenth, etc) Amendment(s)
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2015
#309