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2015-10-14 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Pry Those Guns From Our Cold, Dead Fingers

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Posted by badanov 2015-10-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11123 views ] Top

#1 seatbelts save lives, so we pass laws that require car drivers to buckle up, and accident-related deaths go down

Apparent 'focus dementia'.
Why does nobody talk about seat belts on the school bus any more?

Posted by Skidmark 2015-10-14 01:19|| 2015-10-14 01:19|| Front Page Top

#2 The 2nd Amendment says "... shall not be infringed".

Every single "gun control" initiative is purely about "infringing".

Every attempt to "infringe" should be immediately killed off at birth.

The only initiative that should ever be entertained is one to repeal the 2nd Amendment. See 21st Amendment (which repealed the 18th Amendment) as a precedent.

I can just barely conceive of a day in which the 2nd Amendment might be facing repeal - but that is what it should take.

All attempts to "infringe" should be strangled in their crib.

Posted by Lone Ranger 2015-10-14 04:13|| 2015-10-14 04:13|| Front Page Top

#3 My home is my private gun club. The doors are always locked.

Posted by BrerRabbit 2015-10-14 05:52|| 2015-10-14 05:52|| Front Page Top

#4 They surely never imagined a country where an amendment designed to keep the British from invading,
The Constitutional protection of guns is only secondarily about keeping the British from invading: it contains no provision for a standing army, but instead expects the people to come together to resist threats. The reason there was no standing army was the well-founded concern that such an army could be used by the central government to suppress the people. The Second Amendment was and is to protect the people from their 'own' government.

Posted by Glenmore 2015-10-14 08:02|| 2015-10-14 08:02|| Front Page Top

#5 >The Second Amendment was and is to protect the people from their 'own' government.

It failed.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2015-10-14 09:04|| 2015-10-14 09:04|| Front Page Top

#6 They can write 1,000 articles. Each one will say exactly the same thing - someone committed a crime with a gun, so lets take guns away from the people who never have and never will commit a crime.

The answer is no. Yesterday it was 'no,' and tomorrow it will still be 'no.'

Posted by Iblis 2015-10-14 10:36|| 2015-10-14 10:36|| Front Page Top

#7 Skip you will never hear of those killed with seat belts on or die because of the seat belts. When it's the government you can't believe any numbers they come up with anyway.

Posted by Dale 2015-10-14 10:43|| 2015-10-14 10:43|| Front Page Top

#8 They keep pressing it because it only has to be 'yes', 'maybe', or even 'perhaps a tiny bit' ONCE and only ONCE for them to win.

Posted by CrazyFool 2015-10-14 11:32|| 2015-10-14 11:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Yeah, like Ben Franklin couldn't possibly envision advancement in weaponry past a flint-lock with a round ball. Give me a break.

Posted by DepotGuy 2015-10-14 13:19|| 2015-10-14 13:19|| Front Page Top

#10 Bill of Rights - 1791

Girandoni Repeating Air Rifle - 1780
ROF - 22 in 30 seconds, .51 caliber, magazine fed

Nock Gun - 1779
7 rounds per discharge

Blunderbuss, Dragon handgun

People had been figuring out different methods to fire multiple bullets in one shot since before Champlain and three others decimated the center of an enemy Indian line which outnumbered their own war party by at least two to one. Hell, the Byzantiums were defending Constantinople with flamethrowers, which I am sure were wounding/killing numbers of enemy in a short time.

It was really the evolution of the bullet, that is, the self contained cartridge.

Evolved. Love that term. How many species evolved into oblivion. Every time I come across that word from these Confessions of Collectivist Sins, I think Panda.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-10-14 16:19|| 2015-10-14 16:19|| Front Page Top

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