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In reply to the discussion: My INALIENABLE Rights TRUMP Your SECOND Amendment Rights. [View all]xxenderwigginxx
(146 posts)The problem is, you keep saying "I can". No you can't. Any solution has to pass congress and hold up in the coourts. None of your emotional and verging on tyranical ideas would pass that test. I understand your position, what im trying to express is that you are taking an irrational approach. You obviously don't care about having gun rights, but consservatives dont like some of the rights you think are important. I wonder how you will respond if they then decide to use your own tactics on rights that you do deem important. Ten thousand dollar tax on gun sales would fail for the same reason that the poll tax did. I think that you are throwing out idea without considering the precident it would set, and how it would then be used against other rights. As Martin Niemöller (A WWII German theologian) said
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.