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quaker bill

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18. It is a civil liberty, until it isn't.
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 07:05 AM
Jul 2012

Yes, people killed each other before guns were invented, and will continue to do so in the absence of firearms, should that ever happen.

Mental healthcare would be a good thing regardless of the presence or absence of guns. Even the best available services do not help the undiagnosed. If the way you end up making the diagnosis is by counting the corpses, the point is rather moot.

Bottom line, it will be a civil liberty until enough gun owners go off the reservation, shoot up enough workplaces and movie premiers to turn the politics. Then change will be sudden and swift.

It is a shame that the whole RKBA community is so rabid about the "civil liberty" that they do not police their own ranks and quit selling guns and ammo to fruitbats on their own. It would seem that acting in an assertive way to promote sane gun ownership would go quite some distance toward preserving the cherished civil liberty.

That being aside it is the action of gun owners, not anti-gun activists, that will determine the long term fate of RKBA. I hate to put my faith in fruitbats, but they surely are dependable.

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