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lapfog_1

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24. I'm old enough to remember a time before airport searches

Wed Jun 22, 2016, 08:59 PM

Jun 2016

and your statement was about the TSA, which was and remains factually incorrect.

it used to be car safety that got the electorate excited because of the terrible carnage on our streets and highways. Thus we now have safer cars with seat belt laws and air bags... you should go back and read "Unsafe at any speed". So we passed laws to make cars safer, laws that a strict reading of the constitution would say "un constitutional" since they were NOT enumerated by the founders (wagon safety apparently didn't rise to the level of rights back in the day).

Guns are special... all they are built for is to kill things (people or animals). They have never been subject to the same level of restrictions or safety regulations as vehicles or any other device that can kill people (my telephone and my laptop are dangerous, but only to ideas, not people).

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ah.. the strict constitutionalist with enumerated rights. lapfog_1 Jun 2016 #20

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