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To: mjbarkl
First off, I want the Right to Keep and Bear Arms repealed...

To what authority are you going to appeal to do this?

Rights are such that whether or not they are codified or enshrined in the writings of humans, they exist. The Second Amendment doesn't grant the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, it merely places it off limits to any Government following our Constitution.

We are shooting too many people in this country.

We, who?

I am not actively engaged in the shooting of people in this country, though some criminals may well be. The only other groups of people left "shooting people" (assuming you meant intentionally) are police and persons engaged in self-defense.

One could actually make the argument that if increasing numbers of people are being shot by police and persons defending themselves, perhaps 'we' haven't shot enough for the message to get through, or perhaps the courts haven't dealt with persons with prior offenses harshly enough and released them to commit more crimes.

Aside from a scattering of accidental/negligent discharges, criminal activity would account for the rest of shootings, so maybe it is the criminals who need to be curbed, not the persons defending against them.

There are too many guns, too easy access.

Who says "too many", and by what standard? Who says access is "easy"?

What is next? Your lawn is too large? Your car is too big? Your House? Your Bank account?

New and different forms of gun control are required to cut down the inventory and access problems and those cannot be imposed without first repealing the Right to Keep and Bear Arms

Oh, now I see. You think scratching out a few lines on a piece of parchament is going to get 80,000,000+ people to just willingly surrender their property, their right to self defense and self-determination?

My, you are seriously deluded.

78 posted on 04/22/2011 1:52:23 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Smokin' Joe
I like your 80,000,000 number.. check out Post #80 ;)

Bikk
89 posted on 04/22/2011 2:16:49 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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To: Smokin' Joe
I like your 80,000,000 number.. check out Post #84 ;)

Bikk

sorry.. it's 84.. not 80 X(
91 posted on 04/22/2011 2:18:03 PM PDT by Bikkuri
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