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Gun Control & RKBA

In reply to the discussion: The Liberal Gun Club. [View all]

Mandell

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40. Another owner...
Sat Sep 15, 2012, 01:03 AM
Sep 2012

...and I live in John Dingle's district, who has been getting reelected as his father was from a very mixed district that has been increasingly pushed farther into the Republican suburbs every reapportionment. For 56 years now he's been able to hold on to the office, and a large part of that is his support for 2a issues in an area where the hunting population is large. I believe that if 2a issues were taken away from the NRA, GOP, TP and their spawn then they would be fatally weakened and we could get on with fixing what screwed up in this country. It a huge energizer for the Republican base, and for some reason Liberals and Progressives fail to understand they continuously revitalize the Rethugs base for them on this issue.

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Obviously... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2012 #1
If they want to fantasize about a non-existent "right," so be it. Loudly Sep 2012 #2
You keep saying it's a non existent right w/o providing any proof of what you claim. glacierbay Sep 2012 #3
The 2A speaks for itself. It has been ridiculously adorned with superfluous attributes. Loudly Sep 2012 #5
The burden of proof is on you glacierbay Sep 2012 #6
Unassailable logic is no platitude, glacierbay. Loudly Sep 2012 #7
Are you or are you not going to provide the proof? glacierbay Sep 2012 #10
The proof is in the Amendment itself. Loudly Sep 2012 #11
Just one more time glacierbay Sep 2012 #16
I get so tired rrneck Sep 2012 #12
I'm glad you mntioned the language of the 2nd amendment Flyboy_451 Sep 2012 #39
It does not matter whether the right is moot or not. Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #9
The BOR is shaped and fashioned by history. Loudly Sep 2012 #14
And provisions were made to amend the Constitution. Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #17
There is a much more common alternative to amending. Loudly Sep 2012 #20
Current case law is not in your favor. Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #24
Your phrase "for their own good" glacierbay Sep 2012 #26
The American People have repeatedly been dragged kicking and screaming into modernity. Loudly Sep 2012 #32
There's a word ... holdencaufield Sep 2012 #33
Progress? Loudly Sep 2012 #34
An oldie but a goodie..."The modernity shuffle". beevul Sep 2012 #35
for their own good ?? Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2012 #38
Who are You to decide what -I- need to do for my "own good" ?? Tuesday Afternoon Sep 2012 #37
Mooted =\= repealed Oneka Sep 2012 #13
I don't disagree that that's true. Loudly Sep 2012 #15
They do not change without Constitutional amendment. n/t Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #19
Exception: The Courts. Loudly Sep 2012 #22
Thus far the courts have been very friendly to firearm rights. Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #25
Untrue. PavePusher Sep 2012 #29
Some view firearms ownership as " a "right" of access to the means of convenient murder." ... spin Sep 2012 #30
And a genuine right to exercise it under the 2nd amendment. Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #8
If it weren't for the inherent problem: Loudly Sep 2012 #18
Sure it can. Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #21
The 1A didn't kill the ambassador. An armed mob did. Loudly Sep 2012 #23
And it wasn't a gun that killed the Ambassador glacierbay Sep 2012 #27
LOL - "political indulgence" Atypical Liberal Sep 2012 #28
Believe it ErikO Sep 2012 #36
No points for you Shares! ProgressiveProfessor Sep 2012 #31
^^^^^ Proud Liberal Gun Owner Here!!! liberallibral Sep 2012 #4
Another owner... Mandell Sep 2012 #40
LGC member Xela Sep 2012 #41
Shares United: the zombie walks! Straw Man Sep 2012 #42
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