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In reply to the discussion: Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)24. not quite
All states do not have concealed carry. But you'all are working hard to change that.
actually the courts are. IL is the only one that does not.
Amazingly, guns are not human beings and are not covered under the 14th Amendment. Though I suppose it's only a matter of time until the NRA convinces congress that killing people of color is covered under the Second Amendment. There is already a dispensation for children. Gun owners take out their kids without repercussion all the time. Most don't do a day's jail time.
Not the guns, the people who are discriminated under May issue.
Since we're talking about equal protection, wouldn't that principal mean you couldn't possibly accept current law that gives gun manufacturers special protection against law suits for negligence in distribution of their products? And then there are all the provisions imposing gag rules on people that criticize gun policy or doctors who would ask their patients about guns. Yes, the gun cabal displays an unyielding commitment to the constitution---as long as it means subverting the constitution in the interests of corporate profits.
You mean meritless lawsuits that are based on SLAPP suits? Brady never won one. If gun manufactures are in fact negligent in their distribution, it would be a criminal case. If a manufacture sells to the wholesaler in compliance with all federal and state laws, that wholesaler does the same with the retailer etc. None of them are responsible, in any rational world, for what an individual does 15 years later. Using your theory, if I get run over by a car, I should be able to sue the manufacture and the dealership for selling a car to a drunk.Edit history
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Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]
petronius
Jun 2013
OP
Safes are not an "undue burden under the Second Amendment." Undue burdens are...
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#34
I don't get it. Though not widespread, There is a drip-drip reminder that human resources...
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#48
What group has a commitment to making concealed carry universal? Did you just make that up?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#44
And how many people involved in that shootout were legal gun owners?
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2013
#70
That's why I'm less supportive of public funds being used, and why this article
petronius
Jun 2013
#22
The story is questionable. They are going to destroy all of them and not keep any as "drop guns"?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#6
I wonder how anonymous this really is. And when will there be a buy-back in Westwood, Santa Monica?
NYC_SKP
Jun 2013
#47
"A good negro is contaminated by the possession of a weapon.... Disarm the Negro."
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#50
It has been that way since the Lydians invented money in about 700 BCE.
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2013
#80
true but, even more so today as we have really moved away from hunting, farming, gathering,
Tuesday Afternoon
Jun 2013
#81