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In reply to the discussion: Point Click, Fire: An Undercover Investigation of Illegal Online Gun Sales [View all]friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)383. Like in Kelo v. New London, where property was taken for corporate enrichment? It feels good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelo_v._City_of_New_London
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ellisonz
Dec 2011
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Gun control advocates honest? Like the "assault rifle" that wasn't an assault rifle?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#2
"Why should firearms be oh so special?" - Uhm, becuase they are SPECIFICALLY mentioned as a Right
cleanhippie
Dec 2011
#94
You can try to argue that nonsense if you want, but you asked a question, and now you know WHY...
cleanhippie
Dec 2011
#165
OMG! You are actually quoting a 1999 article that uses Michael Bellisles as the "expert"!
DonP
Dec 2011
#181
Normally ignorance is a curable condition, but in your case it appears to be hopeless
DonP
Dec 2011
#185
Nobody reasonably expects a criminologist to be an expert on emergency medicine.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#199
Like in Kelo v. New London, where property was taken for corporate enrichment? It feels good.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#383
I wish to view the right to bear arms as connected with *official* militia service.
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#388
So, you bought a gun with no backgorund check then, interesting for a control supporter
DonP
Dec 2011
#24
You do know that violence in the US is at a 35 year low, right? Your friend nonwithstanding.
DonP
Dec 2011
#58
So, based on your approach, as a man I should be able to dictate abortion law, right?
DonP
Dec 2011
#63
In real life, knife robberies are more violent, and produce more injuries.
GreenStormCloud
Dec 2011
#125
"Why are firearms so special?" Because your right to them is a Constitutional right.
SteveW
Dec 2011
#390
And there is your problem-you don't know the actual laws, only what others have told you about them.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#18
You're the one that wants changes- so explain those you deem necessary.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#22
That's interesting, but rifles of all sorts are used in less than 3% of crimes.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#30
I believe you are less concerned with preventing gun crime and more in preventing gun ownership.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#55
"extended magazine clips".... You are parroting fear-mongering buzz words.....
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#80
Under the expired assault weapons ban high capacity magazines were never banned...
spin
Dec 2011
#92
You do realize that if the 1994 AWB had been reauthorized it would not have prevented Loughner...
aikoaiko
Dec 2011
#87
I'm sure you must mean; "In light of the rapidly shrinking violence in this country" right?
DonP
Dec 2011
#111
In other words: There is no evidence that more gun control reduces crime. n/t
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#265
Sure there is and that's why it's such a popular thing for politicians to support
DonP
Dec 2011
#284
And ammonium nitrate has been pretty damn well controlled as of late in this country...
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#43
Really? Then name one of those Texas or Arizona stores that provide
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#360
And using that logic... "Do you know Michael Bloomberg's background?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#49
I will not allow myself to be restricted when I have not commited a crime or harmed anyone.
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#260
What is descriptive and enlightening is the fact that the US has by far the highest gun homicide...
DanTex
Dec 2011
#110
I doubt they were. Bloomberg's "stings" rarely, if ever, result in prosecutable cases.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#154
Which just goes to show current laws aren't effective at stopping many people...
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#39
That's as much as admitting that gun laws don't drive the crime rate.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#50
Now you claim that availability of grenades (illegal) equals availability of guns (legal).
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#85
Trying to shift the blame to someone who had no legal or moral responsibility.
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#140
Those are more than a little vague- care to elaborate about "regular inspection", for instance?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#217
It's not up to you to decide whether a post is germane to a subject.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#277
They'll just notify law enforcement and have the hospital security hold you until then.
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#337
That doesn't answer the question. How would you ensure your "better" laws get enforced?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#222
But the "failed system" has once again had a reduction in violent crime.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#296
"Gun control and and better policing" The first of which you claimed was a "failed system"?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#298
Indeed, it has failed to prevent more people from buying more guns.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#339
I think we'll start seeing a flat line and it certainly won't approach European levels.
ellisonz
Dec 2011
#342
Is there some Department of Scientific Disarmament Instruction where we might find these?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#347
I've yet to quote the NRA or Eugene Volokh in my responses to you...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2011
#361
What do you tell the victims of drunk drivers? Obviously our alcohol licensing laws are inadequate
hack89
Dec 2011
#91
Actually only 51. And that is less than one in a million. That's rare.
GreenStormCloud
Dec 2011
#189
"If they're willing to sell to someone like that they're willing to make an illegal deal."
PavePusher
Dec 2011
#83