Foreign Policy by the NRA? The Prospect of Gingrich and Bolton.

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169. I'll take that as a gruding apology. n/t

Also, I have no idea what "bigoted comment with a disclaimer" - I do have good friends who have semi-automatic handguns and AR-15's. I don't get their logic.

In fact, here's a taste of some of their arguments on this topic:

"I would much rather establish social welfare programs that can provide alternatives to violence - of any kind - to at risk youths who are by and large the biggest perpetrators and victims of gun violence in this country."

"Also for what it's worth AR-15s are actually ideal weapons for protection inside the home as their rounds are less likely to go long distances through walls and hurt innocent people on the other side. That among many other reasons are why they are becoming increasingly popular with law enforcement over shotguns."

"I've seen it but not recently. As for the Brady Campaign... yea... They're the same thing as the NRA, and neither I care to donate to..."

"If you think the 2nd Amendment's Militia Clause forecloses an individual right to bear arms, I'd suggest you read any of Eugene Volokh's research on this - http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/#GUNCONTROL There's probably no one alive who's more expert in the field. Also, for what its worth, even several leading Harvard / Yale liberal law professors concede that there's an constitutionally protected individual right to bear arms - Akhil Amar, Laurence Tribe, Jack Balkin, etc. This doesn't mean all restrictions are unconstitutional. Just as many limits on speech are constitutional (time / place / manner regs, defamation laws, obscenity bans, etc), things like registration / background checks / etc would certainly pass constitutional scrutiny. But "paramount control" over who can bring guns to town is like paramount control over who can speak."

"To me gun ownership and the "right" should be renewed regularly. Not to mention if proper checks we're followed a lot of the guns used in tragedies as this wouldn't be in the possession of the shooter. Another problem with gun control is it doesn't address the issue of illegal guns already in circulation. A lot of guns used in violent crimes are never legally bought and sometimes are stolen."

That's from our discussions on facebook over the recent Bloomberg tapes. Off your high horse dude...