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DainBramaged

(39,191 posts)
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 05:45 PM Jun 2013

The difference between those of us who want reasonable gun control and those that don't

"You will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. Anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. The right to bear arms is my constitutional God-given right and I will exercise that right till the day I die."



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2013/05/30/bloomberg-guns-ricin/2372183/


How sad for those who let themselves be ruled by he gun, how sad.
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The difference between those of us who want reasonable gun control and those that don't (Original Post) DainBramaged Jun 2013 OP
When the idiot says "God-given right", safeinOhio Jun 2013 #1
so I guess Duckhunter935 Jun 2013 #2
Way out of the mainstream? Ohio Joe Jun 2013 #3
No, Sir, He Is The Mainstream: It Is You, Perhaps, Who Are Not The Magistrate Jun 2013 #4
That's why spokesperson for NRA said something about taking guns out of cold dead hands. Hoyt Jun 2013 #5
Any gun-nutter that believes that statement should NOT be allowed to own firearms as they madinmaryland Jun 2013 #6
 

Duckhunter935

(16,974 posts)
2. so I guess
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 06:32 PM
Jun 2013

anybody that disagrees with your ideas of reasonable equal this idiot. Most gun owners do not think like him and also condemn him, he is way out of the mainstream.

Ohio Joe

(21,727 posts)
3. Way out of the mainstream?
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 06:37 PM
Jun 2013

He sounds like a typical NRA nut to me. Tell me though... What are "reasonable" gun owners suggesting is done?

The Magistrate

(95,243 posts)
4. No, Sir, He Is The Mainstream: It Is You, Perhaps, Who Are Not
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 06:50 PM
Jun 2013

There is nothing in that screed that would not be cheered when said at the podium at an NRA convention, or any Tea Party or Republican party rally. If this makes you uncomfortable, perhaps you should find a different cause to devote yourself to, and write off 'gun rights' as the reactionary, violent, vicious, and usually racist mental derangement it actually is.

The whole 'law-abiding gun owner' line is in the same class as 'jumbo shrimp': the demands of their fantasy lives as heroic slayers of 'thugs' and resistors to 'tyranny' require them to adopt an attitude of 'bending the rules' and 'defying authorities' in the pinch when the gun is in hand. So their actual attitude to the law is not 'I will obey the law' but rather 'I will decide which laws I will obey', and yet still their own conviction they are righteous and law-abiding people allows them to feel they are not criminally inclined when they harbor the intent to break laws at will, and even to believe that they are not criminals when they actually break laws.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
5. That's why spokesperson for NRA said something about taking guns out of cold dead hands.
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 06:51 PM
Jun 2013

Bet you've expressed similar.

madinmaryland

(64,931 posts)
6. Any gun-nutter that believes that statement should NOT be allowed to own firearms as they
Sat Jun 1, 2013, 07:01 PM
Jun 2013

are definitely mentally ill.

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