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Eko

(7,336 posts)
17. So,
Sat Apr 8, 2017, 03:32 PM
Apr 2017

You don't have a problem with some guns being only available to the rich but you do with other guns only being available to the rich. Doesn't seem like a right at all if you cant afford it.

So the government still uses muskets? angstlessk Apr 2017 #1
"1. So the government still uses muskets?" wincest Apr 2017 #2
Ever hear of DRONES with WEAPONS? angstlessk Apr 2017 #3
Ever hear of snipers? n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2017 #6
So you think citizens can take on the government angstlessk Apr 2017 #7
I think history speaks for itself discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2017 #9
A few rifles is all it takes to defeat the other guys with rifles guarding the big things that Jonny Appleseed Apr 2017 #51
Ever hear of AFGHANISTAN, as of three weeks ago? friendly_iconoclast Apr 2017 #25
And......crickets.. nt pkdu Apr 2017 #53
Arms in the hands of private citizens Buzz cook Apr 2017 #4
don't care wincest Apr 2017 #5
Arms and rights. Straw Man Apr 2017 #12
Jim Crow was inforced by private citizens Buzz cook Apr 2017 #30
Jim Crow was enforced by racist police departments. Straw Man Apr 2017 #35
The right to bear arms is tits on a bore. Buzz cook Apr 2017 #46
Some of your responses are rather ahistorical, and deserve a fisking friendly_iconoclast Apr 2017 #55
Fisking Buzz cook Apr 2017 #60
Specifically, there is no indication that the Framers of the Amendment gejohnston Apr 2017 #61
Yup gun control has a racist aspect and Buzz cook Apr 2017 #74
Perhaps you meant "boar" -- or was that a pun? Straw Man Apr 2017 #56
Hey thanks for implying that I was a racist Buzz cook Apr 2017 #59
You made your bed. Straw Man Apr 2017 #62
You're showing your ignorance. Buzz cook Apr 2017 #73
Of what? Straw Man Apr 2017 #75
Well I guess then you're Buzz cook Apr 2017 #77
Silly. Straw Man Apr 2017 #78
The reek of weekend warrior is in the air. It must be spring. Squinch Apr 2017 #8
"reek" wincest Apr 2017 #11
So, Eko Apr 2017 #10
You are allowed to have M 249s sarisataka Apr 2017 #13
What a travesty Eko Apr 2017 #14
I don't have any issues sarisataka Apr 2017 #15
So, Eko Apr 2017 #17
It says you have the right to bear arms sarisataka Apr 2017 #18
The infantry Eko Apr 2017 #20
I have already said sarisataka Apr 2017 #21
Yes. Eko Apr 2017 #22
"If" sarisataka Apr 2017 #31
Eh, Eko Apr 2017 #36
I would disagree sarisataka Apr 2017 #39
Thanks!! Eko Apr 2017 #41
Not exactly. needledriver Apr 2017 #47
That statistic comes from a survey. Eko Apr 2017 #48
You forgot to quote this paragraph. needledriver Apr 2017 #49
True, Eko Apr 2017 #50
W/regard to Kleck's methodology: pablo_marmol Apr 2017 #57
The CDC that Democrats hold in such high esteem refutes Hemenway pablo_marmol Apr 2017 #58
Uh huh. Eko Apr 2017 #63
Why quote from some WaPo employee gejohnston Apr 2017 #64
Wrong. pablo_marmol Apr 2017 #68
Pablo, he must have missed the 500+ post re: Okie self defense in GD. nt yagotme Apr 2017 #71
* pablo_marmol Apr 2017 #79
Excuse the intrusion discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2017 #23
No one has said "each". Eko Apr 2017 #24
The 2A/RKBA has been acknowledged as an "individual" right discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2017 #26
It just seems quite odd. Eko Apr 2017 #29
re: "Would that really be where voting is a right?" agreed sort of discntnt_irny_srcsm Apr 2017 #33
True. Eko Apr 2017 #37
your god damn right wincest Apr 2017 #16
Why even argue with eko Alea Apr 2017 #19
As a history nerd, I have to say muskets were better weapons for an army. That Guy 888 Apr 2017 #27
Somewhat true. Straw Man Apr 2017 #45
For those of us not in CA, what happens to you HeartachesNhangovers Apr 2017 #28
Do you even have to ask haha Alea Apr 2017 #34
I would, but I don't own any firearms still_one Apr 2017 #32
You could buy one ... Straw Man Apr 2017 #38
hmmmm, Is it required by law that I have to buy a firearm? still_one Apr 2017 #40
Ummmm, ... Straw Man Apr 2017 #42
whew........ Thanks still_one Apr 2017 #43
You're welcome! Straw Man Apr 2017 #44
I continue to wonder why grown men still play 'cowboys & Indians' fantasy. nt fleabiscuit Apr 2017 #52
No need to be sexist. Women play, too. yagotme Apr 2017 #67
Only if we can register A1 Tanks and RPGs too , and maybe Nukes? nt pkdu Apr 2017 #54
You can gejohnston Apr 2017 #65
You can buy all the armored vehicles you can afford. However, if you want to have yagotme Apr 2017 #66
IIRC, gejohnston Apr 2017 #69
If that was the case then, yagotme Apr 2017 #70
Demilling the receivers wasn't what I was thinking of gejohnston Apr 2017 #72
Smaller weapons, cut receivers. yagotme Apr 2017 #76
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