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In reply to the discussion: What I Fear, What Made Me Drag my Feet on Gun Control: Brady-Style Gun Control [View all]NashvilleLefty
(811 posts)31. So, you are one of those that thinks that by carrying
you can magically shoot the gun out of the shooters hand, or something like that?
Even though every, I mean EVERY civilian was either wounded or killed....
And I don't even want to get into how many innocent people were killed by Rambo types...
You people scare me.
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TPaine7
Dec 2012
OP
Alas, when I hear terms like “reasonable” “common sense” and “sensible” coming out of the mouths of
villager
Dec 2012
#2
And a defense of unchecked gun proliferation, at this point, is about as historically astute
villager
Dec 2012
#26
By your own admission, those "rights" were never intended to apply to self defense
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#25
The guys I cited WROTE the Constitution. The Fourteenth Amendment is constitutionally correct
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#46
There is no need to ignore anything, and Scalia wasn't born when the Framer's wrote the 14th
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#50
So anyone who disagrees with Scalia is equivelant to a climate change denier?
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#66
"or modification." I haven't really thought the details through, but modification of the Second
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#81
No, solutions must be rooted in reality. Amending the Constitiution would actually achieve your
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#90
The founders meant militias, nor people. So you want original intent, that's what they meant
RantinRavin
Dec 2012
#13
I thought Democrats—Democrats on DU at least—were not rooted, intellectually speaking,
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#55
the poster hasn't 'screamed' or 'pounced' at all. he gave a well-grounded calm argument.
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#69
Gun control laws should be common. "No discharge of weapons in town" (except in legitimate defense)
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#44
1934 laws are beside the point, the point being laws of the founding era—the era of Thomas Paine nt
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#71
So when Occupy decides to carry openly their weapons, you will finally take them seriously.
madinmaryland
Dec 2012
#19
It seems to me that the strongest gun rights supporters were most eager to give up other rights
Fumesucker
Dec 2012
#20
Ok then, you are properly grouped with those who think the pre-Heller DC legal regime
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#74
Excellent post to point out this aspect of guns. I'm a woman living alone. I know. nt
Honeycombe8
Dec 2012
#27
Why is it nearly always the barely literate that invariably insist that their interpretation of
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#29
Is your question rhetorical, or are you going to explain the thinking of the barely literate to
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#35
I don't think so. Machine guns can be heavily regulated and even banned per Heller.
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#42
Yes, I believe in magic. And shooting guns out of someone's hand was the subject of the OP. nt
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#40
Are you a Brady absolutist? Do you believe that DC's gun laws were too permissive for an "A"? nt
TPaine7
Dec 2012
#41
What some people want is for mass shootings or home invasions to never happen.
Jennicut
Dec 2012
#52
yes, the devil's always in the details. one reason i'm leary of new regulations is because so
HiPointDem
Dec 2012
#68