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In reply to the discussion: New Yorker magazine has an interesting article about history of 2nd amendment, NRA and gun control [View all]iverglas
(38,549 posts)142. you know, if you would just stop when you're behind ...
That is one reason why the more progressive NDP does better in rural Canada than the Liberals do.
You just don't have a clue.
The "progressive" rural western NDPers are the ones who gave us the useless Alexa McDonough as party leader in 1995 because they would not support a gay man for party leader.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexa_McDonough#Federal_leadership
Damned "progressive" of them, that.
Jack Layton, from downtown Toronto, and the other MPs from there, and all the new Quebec MPs, are the left of the party. And if you think the left in Quebec (and most of Quebec) doesn't support stringent gun control wholeheartedly, you're woefully ignorant.
These rural populists, in both countries, are self-centred and/or panderers when it comes to firearms. And plain ignorant. Firearms are trafficked from their lax jurisdictions to urban areas with more stringent rules; what do they care, eh? And firearms homicides and other criminal uses of firearms within the family, for example, are no less common, and in some instances more common, in rural areas than in big cities. In Canada, the various Mounties who have been killed by firearm in the last few years weren't working in Vancouver's downtown east side, and it wasn't handguns they were killed with, btw.
Nobody is saying that firearms control, which IS NOT a "marginal cultural issue", for the love of fuck (except to the right wing and its panderers, who try to make it one), negates anything. Many people think that those who try to make it a cultural issue for their own benefit should grow some common decency and honesty and acknowledge the role their policies play in the harm suffered by other people. And maybe act like actual leaders, and educate their constituencies about the facts.
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New Yorker magazine has an interesting article about history of 2nd amendment, NRA and gun control [View all]
rgbecker
Apr 2012
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Also detaining people he suspects of carrying a firearm so he can check their papers
AH1Apache
Apr 2012
#32
Interesting part about the NRA paying "scholars" to publish 2nd amendment papers. n-t
Logical
Apr 2012
#6
Yep. It's corruption and twisted conservatives playing facist games to preserve corp. power.
The Wielding Truth
Apr 2012
#23
Yes, many of the gun culture here are just cyber Zimmermans. In reality, some may be too.
Hoyt
Apr 2012
#46
Hey, you guys would have considered Zimmerman a model gun toter right until he shot unarmed kid.
Hoyt
Apr 2012
#53
Zimmerman, intimidation, Loughner, guns everywhere, etc. -- that's what the gun culture has wrought.
Hoyt
Apr 2012
#167
Semi-automatic assault weapons were not banned, not the possession, not the transfer
rl6214
Apr 2012
#117
NO, it was called the "assault weapons ban" by the anti-gun zealots that wrote it
rl6214
Apr 2012
#146
I wonder how people like you ever challenge your minds? I read rightwing stuff all the...
Logical
Apr 2012
#48
"Some people, like you, don't want your set beliefs challenged I guess."
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Apr 2012
#49
Seems like it was the DC group that didn't want to see the HQ moved to Colorado.
rgbecker
Apr 2012
#106
Why give up so early unless it just is painful for you to read long articles? How can you base....
Logical
Apr 2012
#27
Your opinion and hence by your own argument just as valid as the author's.
GoneOffShore
Apr 2012
#144
After reading this article, I had to do a little research about some of the names.
rgbecker
Apr 2012
#42
So you are perfectly happy feeling that you "must carry" in order to feel protected?
GoneOffShore
Apr 2012
#51
That guy is so dumb about guns that he thinks Rimfire is a brand of gun.
GreenStormCloud
Apr 2012
#91
If your post gets hidden, I'm going to take that phrase "(subject-X) nuts" to some other forums....
PavePusher
Apr 2012
#173
Jury voted 6-0 to hide it. Let us know how that works out for you, re: "(subject-x) nuts" :)
Electric Monk
Apr 2012
#174