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Showing Original Post only (View all)Gun Controllers Unwittingly Support Unsafe Societal Conditions [View all]
I believe the situation in Europe in the 1940s would have been much different if the "undesirables" had the individual RKBA that we enjoy here in the USA.
I believe that further restrictions on the individual RKBA will only lead us down a road that makes authoritarian events that much easier.
When I am armed you cannot use force against me, you MUST reason with me. You have to convince me to come around to your world views, you cannot force them in me at the edge of a sword. This is the core of our civil liberties as Americans.
We must do everything we can to keep firearms available, legal and safe for law abiding the citizens. The criminals and the rest will always get theirs somehow.
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I'm Pro Individual RKBA. | |
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No, the evil is because someone else is trying to actively decide my life choices for me,
Decoy of Fenris
Nov 2012
#81
In his first incarnation he did the same kind of thing...non factual shit stirring
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#94
Handling you is not the problem...your posts are almost always nonsensical and unfactual
ProgressiveProfessor
Nov 2012
#107
Well, since the Canadians have dropped the long arm registration, and New York has dropped their
oneshooter
Nov 2012
#109
track record for success in limiting gun crime in a society with lots of guns
HankyDub
Nov 2012
#113
What would you consider to be a "middle ground" on the Thirteenth Amendment? The Twenty-Fourth?
PavePusher
Nov 2012
#28
"...the use of such weapons in war requires a lot of training in mass infantry maneuvers."
PavePusher
Nov 2012
#40
If you think modern firearms don't require "skill and practice to apply deadly force in warfare"...
PavePusher
Nov 2012
#67
"You are trying to compare firearms with weapons that required skill and practice..."
beevul
Nov 2012
#71
click on About This Group - scroll down - you will see the Hosts and further down you will see
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#19
He was sacrificed to appease the Antis who are raising a Ruckus in Meta.
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#21
I could be wrong but, I think this post also had something to do with it
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#47
I am not the one who alerted. I am the one getting beaten up in that thread for defending the man.
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#49
saw it - would not put it past him to alert on every post - odds being that sooner or later
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#54
sooner or later with the right code words in the Alert ... another one of us will be knocked out
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#58
indeed - it is to the point that I agree with the OP. Hosts are caving into pressure and the place
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#55
Glacier, Tuesday, when we stop fighting for our civil liberties, Democracy dies.
Decoy of Fenris
Nov 2012
#60
of course, what I mean to say is that I will save my energy and use it to fight where it will do the
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#91
You are, of course, entitled to your opinion and it is your right to be offended.
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#80
as a great granddaughter, I am not offended. so, there is that. I also disagree with you
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#79
I don't think he is Using it as much as he is pointing out How it HAS BEEN used historically.
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#85
why not bring it up. History and the Art of War and guns go hand in hand.
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#104
That was not a blanket statement. You are in GC&RKBA. Try to stay on Topic, please.
Tuesday Afternoon
Nov 2012
#99