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In reply to the discussion: How do you rank second amendment rights? [View all]We_Have_A_Problem
(2,112 posts)86. And like your attempt at an argument...
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Why should public officials have any better protection than the average Citizen?
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#25
Are you saying that the president should NOT have a better security detail than I should?
digonswine
Dec 2011
#30
I'm saying (admittedly a bit hyperbolically) that the pres has a very large and tight security detal
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#32
Don't forget the North Vietnamese either, they didn't know they couldn;t win. ntxt
DonP
Dec 2011
#43
And yet they tie up 150K troops of the best trained, equiped and led military in history.
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#52
I think the BoR should have been prefaced with "In no particular order..." n/t
DissedByBush
Dec 2011
#37
I rank second amendment rights right down there with state's rights . . . . . to discriminate.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#39
I wish you guys would learn the distinction between Civil Rights and Civil Liberties.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#46
But not a "civil right." So stop trying to hitch your poor pitiful gun plight to that movement.
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#50
Sadly, Civil Rights came much later than the Constitution -- not in the "Bill of Rights."
Hoyt
Dec 2011
#71
Well, I'm glad you came out and flatly denied that 2A was intended to prevent the...
DanTex
Dec 2011
#75
I'll grant that you personally are not prone to hyperbole and extremism on the second amendment.
DanTex
Dec 2011
#97
In order to preserve the well regulated militia, the Second Amendment forbad the government
TPaine7
Dec 2011
#81
Wow, you guys really can't stray even an inch from the gunner talking points, can you!
DanTex
Dec 2011
#89
See post 88. On second thought, your "philosophy" was just too funny to leave alone. Bye now.
TPaine7
Dec 2011
#90
Yeah, I've travelled to Europe and Canada and other countires too. Multiple times.
TPaine7
Dec 2011
#95
No enumerated/protected rights should be given more weight over other enumerated/protected rights.
OneTenthofOnePercent
Dec 2011
#61