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51. Can you find a graphic that shows suicide and homicide rates that include all methods?

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Sun Dec 6, 2015, 05:33 PM

Dec 2015

Not just firearms.

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The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun [View all] yallerdawg Dec 2015 OP

And the 1st amendment was never meant to give corporations speech=money rights. valerief Dec 2015 #1

If a conservative administration decided that Democratic Underground, LLC had no 1A rights... friendly_iconoclast Dec 2015 #38

Presumably, real people post & discuss on this board. Ghost Dog Dec 2015 #78

What about op-eds? Or endorsements, for that matter friendly_iconoclast Dec 2015 #82

You are a celeb! LOL you were quoted on Thom's show this week. randys1 Dec 2015 #54

Thanks. We DO need to understand and appreciate history. elleng Dec 2015 #2

So the folks who intended a collective right went back to their respective states.. X_Digger Dec 2015 #3

The "right" you are imagining... yallerdawg Dec 2015 #8

Umm, no. The right exists, everywhere. That doesn't make any restriction impossible. X_Digger Dec 2015 #11

Being necessary to the security of a free State. How secure is a free state with armed nut jobs? nt Xipe Totec Dec 2015 #4

That's for darn sure. Remember the Cliven Bundy skirmish. Hoyt Dec 2015 #24

Not if you're Scalia Nevernose Dec 2015 #34

Regulation is essential to the 2nd Amendment's purpose ThoughtCriminal Dec 2015 #5

This x1000000 Docreed2003 Dec 2015 #79

Thanks for highlighting the "Well Regulated" Ghost Dog Dec 2015 #80

... Snobblevitch Dec 2015 #6

Then why is it a part of the Bill of Rights? LittleBlue Dec 2015 #7

Exactly! yallerdawg Dec 2015 #12

How many fucking times does this have to be said, GGJohn Dec 2015 #14

Many times, apparently. beevul Dec 2015 #20

What you all want is semantics and debate. yallerdawg Dec 2015 #23

No, this is a fundamental aspect of our government that you seem to have missed. X_Digger Dec 2015 #25

Word, words, words. yallerdawg Dec 2015 #29

Rights aren't granted by the bill of rights. Lets start there. X_Digger Dec 2015 #31

There you go! yallerdawg Dec 2015 #32

Should I use smaller words? Smaller sentences? Limit my vocabulary? X_Digger Dec 2015 #33

When the governed... yallerdawg Dec 2015 #39

*sigh* You missed it again, didn't you? X_Digger Dec 2015 #40

Give it up X_Digger, some people just don't get it or are intentionally obtuse. eom. GGJohn Dec 2015 #43

Apparently so. I have a bruise on my forehead from pounding it on my desk. n/t X_Digger Dec 2015 #45

You do know this is a Democratic website. yallerdawg Dec 2015 #46

Please go read a book on the Enlightenment. Locke, Rousseau, Hobbes. X_Digger Dec 2015 #50

How about this...the bill of rights is a set of instructions from the governed to the governors tha Augiedog Dec 2015 #48

Thank you, A'dog! yallerdawg Dec 2015 #53

One minor problem with your theory. beevul Dec 2015 #65

The bill of rights was promised to the states even though promulgated at a later date. No bill of Augiedog Dec 2015 #70

All incidental. beevul Dec 2015 #71

I agree totally, thus my contention that the second amendment first must be recognized for what it Augiedog Dec 2015 #72

Calling weapons 'military grade' that aren't, doesn't help your case. N/T beevul Dec 2015 #73

I'm sad you missed my point. If it helps, please ignore that last sentence. Better yet, ignore me. Augiedog Dec 2015 #75

"members who may be armed in defense of the state must belong to the militia" jmg257 Dec 2015 #77

Any perfunctory reading of post revolutionary history will provide the context in which the bill of Augiedog Dec 2015 #81

I can think of a gesture that would be appropriate for that poster... Scootaloo Dec 2015 #76

Is that what you call a general lack of understanding of the pertinent subject matter... beevul Dec 2015 #26

Point me to the clause in the Second Amendment TeddyR Dec 2015 #19

You lost me. yallerdawg Dec 2015 #22

Why would it specify the condition in the majority of the amendment... beevul Dec 2015 #28

The militia is/was not the people...it excluded women, slaves and anyone who had self worth of less Augiedog Dec 2015 #44

Wait - so the militia was NOT "the people". But the people ARE the ones jmg257 Dec 2015 #74

unfortunately it is in the form of a... lame54 Dec 2015 #37

Here they come. Kingofalldems Dec 2015 #9

k/r Orrex Dec 2015 #10

Wrong, this article is total bullshit and should be ignored. Major Hogwash Dec 2015 #13

You're wrong ThoughtCriminal Dec 2015 #16

Get busy, Dorothy. Push for repeal or advanced degrees in grammar. Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #15

"The Second Amendment Was Never Meant to Protect an Individual’s Right to a Gun" EX500rider Dec 2015 #17

Sure it does! Rex Dec 2015 #18

K&R smirkymonkey Dec 2015 #21

Ah - the 2nd IS only for militia purposes? So we can buy M16s and M4s and M9 now? jmg257 Dec 2015 #27

Metallica iranianguy Dec 2015 #30

Awesome, is in the 'Eye Of The Beholder'. beevul Dec 2015 #35

" necessary to the security of a free State" ErikJ Dec 2015 #36

"The #2 Amend now THREATENS the security of a free state." Then stop complaining and get it repealed friendly_iconoclast Dec 2015 #41

Michael Moore is right: yallerdawg Dec 2015 #42

Hyperbole isn't a winning strategy for fun the pro-restrictionists aikoaiko Dec 2015 #47

Supporting gun restrictions helps the NRA? yallerdawg Dec 2015 #52

Can you find a graphic that shows suicide and homicide rates that include all methods? pediatricmedic Dec 2015 #51

See my post #63 EX500rider Dec 2015 #64

What a BS graph....Japan has a suicide rate of 18.5 per 100,000... EX500rider Dec 2015 #63

Gun death rates are BS? yallerdawg Dec 2015 #66

yes the US rate is also in a downward trend: EX500rider Dec 2015 #67

Apples and oranges again. yallerdawg Dec 2015 #68

The US and Australia both having dropping homicides rates is not: EX500rider Dec 2015 #69

President Obama disagrees with the OP. former9thward Dec 2015 #49

And... yallerdawg Dec 2015 #55

And ... former9thward Dec 2015 #57

The article is about how we got here. yallerdawg Dec 2015 #62

Everyone knows no a single gun was owned privately before the Heller decision. ileus Dec 2015 #56

K&R! Keep it up. Photographer Dec 2015 #58

Yeah, the ridiculous claim that it isn’t about individual rigjts pipoman Dec 2015 #59

To anyone who believes the 2A doesn't protect an individual right to possess firearms, branford Dec 2015 #60

Does this mean that the Snobblevitch Dec 2015 #61