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And criminals, especially the criminals.
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Nawwww... antis don't really care about what they have... hell they can have rockets for all they care. Just as long as law abiding citizens don't have them.
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I'm all for your constitutional right to bear arms. I note, however, that it falls short of giving you the right to use those arms...
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You don't think you have a right to protect your life?
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Join Date: Mar 2006
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Do you have the right make the CHAK-CHAK pump action sound?
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It is required.
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I just did a Google Image Search for "SNIKT" and apparently Wolverine is Edward Scissor-Hands now ???
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LOL!
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I have never understood the "back to the past" mentality of those who don't like guns.
They are here, that is just not going away. As long as it is the most efficient and effective defense weapon to use and what the other person is most likely going to be carrying, it is what I am going to use. |
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Makes some feel uncomfortable
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Listen, I do not support legislation restricting firearms. I would like there to be fewer hand guns. I believe that the world would be a better place without any hand guns. Do you agree? I wouldn't have as much problem with hand guns if they were the same hand guns that were in existence when the founders wrote the constitution. They made the constitution based on the knoweldge they had at that time. Had they known the advancements that have been made, they may have framed the right to bear arms somewhat differently.
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I think this line's mostly filler.
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I think that there are three classes of weapon:
1) Weapons that should be available to the average person. 2) Weapons that should be available only to the military. 3) Weapons that should not be available. Almost all gun debates are over where to draw the lines, not whether there should be lines, even though a strict reading of the Second Amendment would support the idea of no lines.
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There should be no lines for private ownership. The fear is that someone will get a howitzer or something and use it to wreak havok in the community, but that possibility is too remote to be included in the argument. The cost is prohibitive, there's little to no availability, and there are a number of legal obstacles besides the right to ownership that must be overcome.
For example, to privately own fully automatic weapons (yes, it's legal), you must pass an extensive background check similar to that given to applicants to the CIA or who work in nuclear facilities, buy a federal tax stamp (I think that's what it's called) for each item, and you essentially waive your right against "unreasonable search and seizure". Every component is catalogued, and must remain with the weapon it's catalogued to. The feds can check on the location of the weapon at any time day or night, and you must comply. You can't leave it out of your possession unless it's secured in a particular way, and if you transport it, you have to notify the authorities. I'm pulling these from memory, so I might have missed some or misrepresented some details, but that's essentially the way it works. It's much easier to get one illegally.
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The fact is that humans always lived in king / peon type of society, it's just now that we're in a modern society, it's harder to see, but it's still the same. Corrupt interests are at the head of this jungle law that we see every day happening, where the rich get richer and the poor get poorer every day.
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****************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio |
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