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Tab

(11,093 posts)
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 06:57 PM Dec 2012

Gun nuts predicted that if Obama was reelected, that he'd go after their guns.

Expect them to say, "see, we told you so!".

I don't think this was fully on Obama's agenda, but it is now - and because the gun nuts have proved spectacularly, in a string of incidents culminating in this recent, most tragic, one, that relying on everyone with a gun to be responsible is a failed premise.

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

If the point of the right to keep and bear arms is for the purpose of ensuring a well-regulated militia, methinks we're going to need more regulation of our "militia". 'Cause there's damned little now. I have to register my vehicle, fer chrissakes, which is meant for transportation, but guns, which are meant for killing don't even need to be registered in many states. You have to (and properly so) go through a lot of training and testing for a driver's license (particularly before age 18), but to own a gun? Damned little, for an item that is good only for killing and nothing else.

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Gun nuts predicted that if Obama was reelected, that he'd go after their guns. (Original Post) Tab Dec 2012 OP
They failed to control their guns so that innocent people don't get killed. Cobalt Violet Dec 2012 #1
Well I hope their prediction finally comes true. LisaL Dec 2012 #2
Politicians won't push gun regulations, obxhead Dec 2012 #3
Obama isn't taking their 2nd Amendment Rights away - the American Majority TheDebbieDee Dec 2012 #4

Cobalt Violet

(9,905 posts)
1. They failed to control their guns so that innocent people don't get killed.
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:03 PM
Dec 2012

So the hell with them. They can't handle the responsibility of having guns. I hope they do lose them. No pity from me.

 

obxhead

(8,434 posts)
3. Politicians won't push gun regulations,
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:21 PM
Dec 2012

Politicians won't push gun regulations, assholes that commit mass murder of children using guns will.

 

TheDebbieDee

(11,119 posts)
4. Obama isn't taking their 2nd Amendment Rights away - the American Majority
Mon Dec 17, 2012, 07:41 PM
Dec 2012

is taking their 2nd Amendment Rights away..............

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