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Gun Control & RKBA

NYC_SKP

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6. Self defense is a natural and a civil right.

Reply to discntnt_irny_srcsm (Original post)

Mon Aug 11, 2014, 07:24 PM

Aug 2014

To me, it's a right that should be assumed to have existed without specific need for an amendment, a specific inclusion a la RKBA.

I think the 9th, and later the 14th, only strengthen our position.

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The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights... [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2014 OP

It was not safeinOhio Aug 2014 #1

I have a 2,000,000 year history... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2014 #2

2 million years? safeinOhio Aug 2014 #4

I've got a 10 minute history... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2014 #5

Yes it was. gejohnston Aug 2014 #3

Individuals didn't own firearms for the first 200 years? ileus Aug 2014 #9

Self defense is a natural and a civil right. NYC_SKP Aug 2014 #6

exactly discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2014 #7

The RKBA should be guaranteed under the idea of right to life. ileus Aug 2014 #8

very true discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2014 #10

Liberals are at their best being liberal. Eleanors38 Aug 2014 #11

political muscles like their physiologic analogs... discntnt_irny_srcsm Aug 2014 #12