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In reply to the discussion: Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)29. Again with the carnac...
"You aren't about choice. You're about imposing YOUR choices on everyone else. You have guns, yet you're pissed off that some might willingly turn in their guns in a buyback program. You have the right to concealed carry, but you are angry that other jurisdictions don't want that right, so you will enforce it on them."
No my dear. Just no. I am completely about choice. I am not asking, proposing/lobbying for anyone to buy own or carry a firearm. I simply support that individuals be allowed to choose for themselves.
( I do not carry a gun, and have no desire to, for what its worth)
You and the other bansaloters on the other hand, are pissed off that ANYONE has a choice to carry a gun, and wish to remove the ability for individuals to make that choice.
its just that simple. There is no way you spin this that makes my side of the issue authoritarian, and yours the side of choice. You can wish all you like, but it is what it is. Sorry.
" So the question is why do you insist on imposing a rural exurban world view and policy on places where you don't live."
Oh the hypocrisy. You guys are no different. You wish to impose (what you would characterize as) an urban policy on all of America. Don't even try to pretend otherwise. I've seen your posts about the AWB and magazine laws.
"So the question is why do you insist on imposing a rural exurban world view and policy on places where you don't live."
For the same reason as I insist on imposing laws that allow women to choose whether they can have an abortion or not, rather than having it decided for them. Because its morally right, ethically right, and choice is the hallmark of a free society.
" You quite obviously don't respect the right of urban communities to make those choices."
I wouldn't respect any community that chose to restrict freedome of choice when it comes to abortion, or any community that chose to come down hard with restrictions against freedom of speech either.
Whats your excuse. Oh yeah..."guns bad".
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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