Posted on 02/07/2008 1:27:13 AM PST by P8riot
Pinch me.
Amazing...
I bet they kick him out of the ACLU for this.
Well consider your self lucky that the author is a Virginian. Had he been from say Massachusetts you probably would have had a stroke.
Amen to that.
This is only thing I disagree with the author on.
The only way increased firearms regulation would increase public safety is if there was total confiscation of all firearms followed by a completely draconian rule of law. Both of which I hope the citizens of our country would never tolerate.
Wow. I kept waiting for the “but” that never came. This guy must be the black sheep in the ACLU family. Great article.
Here in Illinois, it’s our downstate democrats who are fighting our gun-grabbing Liberal Establishment led by a Mayor, Governor, two Senators, Attorney General and Cook County officials.
I’ll go one step beyond Pontiac: there is NO WAY increased gun regulation, or even said draconian confiscation measures, would increase public safety. Case in point: Great Britain today.
TC
Tuirban Durbin is one, who is the other??
Barack Hussein “the anointed one” Obama
I guess I should eleaborate a bit on what I meant.
GB does not have the kind of confiscation I was talking about.
What I was referring to was complete confiscation, meaning that door to door searches and confiscation.
After all guns were confiscated the draconian rule of law would be implemented. This means the death penalty, swift and sure for even the most minor infraction of the law. (Break your neighbors window your dead)
If you can not defend yourself and the government will deal out swift justice chances are you will think twice about breaking the law.
Singapore is the only place I can think of that has something close to what I mean.
Only if you accept that being killed by your own government is "safe". For some reason, even if all firearms are confiscated, the government never disarms.
As for me, I don't care if the arm holding the gun that puts a bullet in my brain is wearing a uniform or not.
A scenario that won't occur in a democracy because politicians who are inclined to ban guns are also inclined to be soft on criminals. Gun bans have had no effect on crime here in Canada and have made things worse in the UK.
I forgot he was senator, LOL
I post on a firearms forum and I’m surprised at the number of posters who identify themselves as liberals but stand behind the second. Of course, they wouldn’t be on that forum if they didn’t support RKBA but it’s a little surprising nontheless.
Read my Post # 11 Canada and Britain do not have what I am referring to as a Gun Ban.
Oh I agree with you.
The whole purpose of my post is to suggest that the only way to have a gun ban have a positive effect on security is to have a Totalitarian society that no American would want to live in.
“I’m surprised at the number of posters who identify themselves as liberals”
Doesn’t surprise me. Libs are more paranoid than most people.
Yeah, but Lib paranoia usually manifests itself in calls for ever more government control over actions they don’t approve of, hence my surprise.
“I post on a firearms forum and I’m surprised at the number of posters who identify themselves as liberals but stand behind the second. Of course, they wouldn’t be on that forum if they didn’t support RKBA but it’s a little surprising nontheless.”
It goes to show you that any clear thinking person understands the framer’s intent, whether they or liberal or conservative.
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