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It is outrageous that eleven states require government permission to exercise a Constitutional right!

The concept that the government could or should only “allow” certain people to buy guns stands the very concept of American jurisprudence on its head. It presumes that the government knows all, controls all, and should be doing so. It is wrong and ineffective. It is the opposite of preventing criminals from possessing guns.

It is crazy to set up a huge expensive bureaucratic system, require everyone to jump though hoops and prove that they are *not* criminals in order to try, ineffectively, to prevent the few individuals who are not responsible, from having legal access to guns. This is a failed paradigm, and it should be abandoned. To accept the idea that the all gun sales should be monitored by the government, and only allowed to those it deems satisfactory is fundamentally wrong.

The entire idea of the enterprise has always been the death of a thousand cuts, where the restrictions on who can buy, and where, and how and what are continually increased until the number of gun owners is reduced to political insignificance.

1 posted on 04/28/2012 11:53:36 AM PDT by marktwain
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To: marktwain

Meaningless drivel. Maybe they should have concentrated on this Mutrie bad guy and how he wasn’t allowed to have weapons in the first place but had them anyway.
Some writer trying to make something out of nothing.


2 posted on 04/28/2012 12:03:36 PM PDT by Past Your Eyes (You knew the job was dangerous when you took it.)
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To: marktwain
Dear Michael,

You need to go back to school and learn how to research your subject before you write. Facts can be a pain in the ass for someone who got by in life by receiving participation trophies into adulthood...Public schools in New England suck! that is why I left when I did.


3 posted on 04/28/2012 12:05:59 PM PDT by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: marktwain

Can anyone list the eleven states that have the gaul to require government permission?


4 posted on 04/28/2012 12:05:59 PM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The TEA Party is my cup of tea.)
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To: marktwain

There is no such thing as an unlicensed dealer.

It’s like saying the reporter is an unlicensed hooker because they had sex at some point in their life.

Because you’ve sold a gun doesn’t mean you’re a dealer.


7 posted on 04/28/2012 1:06:39 PM PDT by Bogey78O (Don't call them jihadis. Call them irhabis. Tick them off, don't entertain their delusion.)
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To: marktwain

In the Leftist Lexicon, a loophole is any freedom they don’t like.


8 posted on 04/28/2012 1:54:19 PM PDT by Colonel Robert Hogan (Once again fighting the National Socialists on the LEFT.)
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DiPrete is also sponsoring gun shows scheduled for September in Concord

Yep, I'll be there.

Schedule: http://www.dipromo.com/index.php?page=gun_shows

10 posted on 04/29/2012 6:42:56 AM PDT by corlorde (NH)
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