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At Backwoods Engineer Blog today, I break down and refute the Left's latest argument for gun control, articulated this morning by "Plugs" Biden: "Who needs a Ferrari, anyway?"

Full text posted on FR as always for my FRiends. Not "pimping blogs" here, but I do appreciate a click, and give you value for doing so: multiple links to relevant stories and court cases buried in the text, and some nice pictures of Ferraris and AR-15s to look at.

1 posted on 04/11/2013 10:28:56 AM PDT by backwoods-engineer
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So, why did Rosa Parks "need" to sit in the front of the bus?

(And I haven't seen "bus" in the Constitution anywhere.)

2 posted on 04/11/2013 10:30:54 AM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)
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Full text posted on FR as always for my FRiends.


3 posted on 04/11/2013 10:32:17 AM PDT by humblegunner
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Where does it say in the constitution I can’t have a Ferrari?


4 posted on 04/11/2013 10:37:19 AM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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It’s The Bill of RIGHTS, not the bill of needs.


5 posted on 04/11/2013 10:37:56 AM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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It is not a Bill of “Needs” as determined by the government. It is a Bill of Rights to let the individual decide how to implement them.


9 posted on 04/11/2013 10:49:57 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (The founding fathers didn't form this country by compromising.)
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The question “do you really need.... “ automatically puts us on the defensive. The question needs to be thrown back “what is accomplished by giving up one of our fundamental rights?”

That's what needs to be weighed in the balance - rights versus some dubious but no more than tiny increase in safety.

10 posted on 04/11/2013 10:51:12 AM PDT by DManA
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As usual, Joe hasn’t thought it through. “If you can’t prove to me that you need one, you can’t have one,” are the words of a dictator no matter what the object is.


11 posted on 04/11/2013 10:53:06 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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Who needs more than two terms in any government office?


13 posted on 04/11/2013 10:57:44 AM PDT by Trod Upon (Every penny given to film and TV media companies goes right into enemy coffers. Starve them out!)
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I clicked your link BECAUSE you posted full-text


14 posted on 04/11/2013 11:01:10 AM PDT by Lazamataz ("AP" clearly stands for American Pravda. Our news media has become completely and proudly Soviet.)
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Full text posted on FR as always for my FRiends. Not “pimping blogs” here, but I do appreciate a click, and give you value for doing so: multiple links to relevant stories and court cases buried in the text, and some nice pictures of Ferraris and AR-15s to look at.

BTTT


15 posted on 04/11/2013 11:04:58 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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A full auto SAW would be the Ferarri. An AR-15 with 30 rd magazines is just a Lexus, an SUV, or a Caddy. Let’s rephrase this in terms that the LIVs can unnerstan’.


16 posted on 04/11/2013 11:10:10 AM PDT by Bryanw92 (Sic semper tyrannis)
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I think a good refutation to this is to use Biden’s own analogy. That is, not specifically a Ferrari, but “Who needs a car?”

Joe Biden doesn’t think you need a car. You can walk, ride a bicycle for miles every day, or take a public bus seated between a foul smelling wino and a man who keeps trying to show you something he’s carrying in a greasy paper bag.

Joe Biden thinks that cars should only be for those that need them, like politicians and those who work for them.

They *need* cars. Ordinary people don’t.


17 posted on 04/11/2013 11:12:16 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Best WoT news at rantburg.com)
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Watch out, they are going to ban Ferraris next.

I have shot an M-16, it was nothing like driving a Ferrari, or even a Harley. What a doofus.


18 posted on 04/11/2013 11:13:31 AM PDT by DonkeyBonker (Hard to paddle against the flow of sewage coming out of the White House.)
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Silly Billy Biden mixing apples and oranges again.
Focus, Joe Bob!


20 posted on 04/11/2013 11:38:46 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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...self defense or they just like the feel...

And then his plugness proceeds to completely ignore the self defense part of his own statement. This whole administration is stupidly evil.

21 posted on 04/11/2013 11:44:26 AM PDT by MortMan (Disarming the sheep only emboldens the wolves.)
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There is but one consumer product, the ownership of which is protected by the Bill of Rights. It is not health care, birth control, or even necessities like food, shelter or transportation. It is the GUN! If congress decides that it CAN infringe on that right based on need, then the president is easily made to ban other consumer products NOT protected by the Bill of Rights, based on need and death toll of those products. Goodbye swimming pools, sports cars, ATVs, parachutes, speed boats, skis, golf carts, and on and on and on.


22 posted on 04/11/2013 12:30:53 PM PDT by Boiling point (Socialism; Ideas so good they have to be mandatory.)
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I don't own an assault weapon.
Those were tightly restricted by the National Firearms Act of 1934.

I do own a Tyranny Response Rifle and I own it for the same
reason our Founding Fathers preferred rifles over muskets.
It kills tyrants better. Sic semper tyrannis!

MOLON LAVE

25 posted on 04/11/2013 2:51:27 PM PDT by TigersEye (The irresponsible should not be leading the responsible.)
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Joe Biden is a career politician who makes Donald Duck look like Einstein and who never ONCE opened his mouth without sticking his foot in.

He was the only VP candidate hussein could find even stupider than himself.


26 posted on 04/11/2013 3:37:09 PM PDT by Jack Hammer (American)
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