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In reply to the discussion: Fatal Cop Shooting Suspect Killed In Standoff [View all]aikoaiko
(34,214 posts)37. you referred to 'the defense of unlimited gun rights go unchallenged on this board'
I cannot believe you really mean this. While we get an extreme poster on either side of the issue from time to time, the pro-rkba folks on this board are not for unlimited gun rights. Many are for the reform of the more useless laws but that is a far cry from unlimited rights.
Yes, police work is dangerous. Criminals are violent and committing acts of violence to average folk who also need the means to reasonable protect themselves.
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Hey...don't look at me...I'm not the one encouraging doing away with a failed system.
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#20
What you've overlooked in your moral entrepeneurship is the system hasn't failed.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#21
But gun laws are far less restrictive than they were forty years ago- and there are far more guns...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#25
I've refuted the basis of most of your studies which are narrowly constructed...
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#41
Hardly- the NICS is run by the FBI, who also run the national crime databases.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#30
you referred to 'the defense of unlimited gun rights go unchallenged on this board'
aikoaiko
Dec 2011
#37
No, but all these accounts of satanic ritual abu..., err gun crimes
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#24