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A Reasonable Conversation About Guns?
Townhall.com ^ | December 7, 2015 | D.W. Wilber

Posted on 12/07/2015 5:20:51 AM PST by Kaslin

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1 posted on 12/07/2015 5:20:51 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

This subject is poison to politicians, and that is great.

Keep it up, liberals.


2 posted on 12/07/2015 5:21:39 AM PST by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Kaslin

“Reasonable” - Totally subjective. No thank you.


3 posted on 12/07/2015 5:22:34 AM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Donald Trump = Elmer Gantry (w/o the booze) + Huey Long (w/o the sweat and Southern accent))
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

You said it.


4 posted on 12/07/2015 5:23:00 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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Reasonable gun control: "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arm shall not be infringed."

That is all.

5 posted on 12/07/2015 5:24:48 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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A ‘reasonable’ conversation with a rabid liberal begins with “you have to accept my demands and give up your guns.”


6 posted on 12/07/2015 5:24:49 AM PST by Gaffer
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Which also brings to mind the need for a return to more traditional character and morality building as a means of reducing gun violence in America. When young people are taught to respect other people's property and rights, along with respecting the gift of life itself, the chances of successfully reducing gun violence in America would be much better I think.

Took a lot of blather and drivel for him to get around to this ...

7 posted on 12/07/2015 5:26:12 AM PST by NorthMountain ("The time has come", the Walrus said, "to talk of many things")
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“While I am a proponent of gun rights for Americans I have never been opposed to there being a reasonable conversation between differing sides on this contentious issue. Unfortunately with our extremely polarized nation, not just on gun issues but on just about everything, a reasonable conversation isn’t going to happen very soon.”

The second amendment is “settled law”. How come the left can claim abortion and gay marriage as settled law, but an actual constitutional amendment is up for debate?


8 posted on 12/07/2015 5:27:21 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Jews for Cruz 2016)
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How come the left can claim abortion and gay marriage as settled law, but an actual constitutional amendment is up for debate?

Because it is the self deluded insanity of the liberal mind.

9 posted on 12/07/2015 5:28:47 AM PST by Gaffer
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. . . I have never been opposed to there being a reasonable conversation between differing sides . . .

Stopped reading right there.

10 posted on 12/07/2015 5:32:08 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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Okay, let's get reasonable.

When the Founders said "arms" they meant the best you could afford.

Should be the same today.

Repeal the NFA of 1934. Really.

If someone is going to use one of these firearms in a crime, there will be plenty to charge them with.

As far as full auto goes, why not?

Why should I have to lug a full-length shotgun around the corners in my house to defend my family from a home invasion? The shorter version would help.

Why should I have to pay a tax for something to make my firearm quieter and protect my hearing (and those next to me and cut down on the whining from people who just moved into the new development next to the shooting range?)

Why should I have to pay a tax to fully exercise a Right, and while we are at it, why can the average terrorist in the Middle East get a new AK-47 for three hundred bucks or so and I can't get one here at all?

Because 'daddy' (GHW) Bush signed that thing where I can't buy a NEW fully-automatic capable firearm, that's why, so repeal that crap, too. That ban amounts to a tremendous tax on those who just want to exercise their right more fully.

So be Reasonable for a change and get your judicial grubbies off of my Civil Rights!

11 posted on 12/07/2015 5:33:26 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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12 posted on 12/07/2015 5:35:59 AM PST by DJ MacWoW (The Fed Gov is not one ring to rule them all)
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“the only thing that might reduce the number of deaths as a result of firearms would be a complete and total ban on gun ownership in America”

Governments have killed far more of their own people than criminals have.

Before that happens, the government disarms its citizens.


13 posted on 12/07/2015 5:39:13 AM PST by fruser1
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Because 'daddy' (GHW) Bush signed that thing where I can't buy a NEW fully-automatic capable firearm, that's why, so repeal that crap, too

That was Ronald Reagan not Bush.

14 posted on 12/07/2015 5:45:14 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: Kaslin

I am in favor of major changes in the gun laws.

By that I mean, I am in favor of repealing ALL laws which make it difficult or impossible for citizens to purchase or own firearms on the federal, state and local levels, including the repeal of the Gun Control Act of 1968.


15 posted on 12/07/2015 5:45:52 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Just say NO to muslim "immigrants")
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“the only thing that might reduce the number of deaths as a result of firearms would be a complete and total ban on gun ownership in America”

If one gun is justified, they all are.

Marko


16 posted on 12/07/2015 5:48:19 AM PST by markoman (The man with the rubber glove was....surprisingly gentle.)
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To: Kaslin

A civilized society wouldn’t need a “conversation” on gun control because in a civilized society people don’t murder each other. We’re all Neanderthals now.


17 posted on 12/07/2015 5:50:19 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Who is fact checking the state controlled, leftwing media's fact checkers?)
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To: Gaffer

‘Because it is the self deluded insanity of the liberal mind.”

And we should call them out on it. The only way to stop the madness is to openly call the left mad. When you hit them on the snout with a newspaper, they go back under the porch, whining.

This is what Reagan did to the Soviets. Eventually people see this and go, “wtf?” Ridicule is our greatest weapon. Alinsky even mentioned it.


18 posted on 12/07/2015 5:51:12 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Jews for Cruz 2016)
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To: Gaffer

‘Because it is the self deluded insanity of the liberal mind.”

And we should call them out on it. The only way to stop the madness is to openly call the left mad. When you hit them on the snout with a newspaper, they go back under the porch, whining.

This is what Reagan did to the Soviets. Eventually people see this and go, “wtf?” Ridicule is our greatest weapon. Alinsky even mentioned it.


19 posted on 12/07/2015 5:51:12 AM PST by EQAndyBuzz (Jews for Cruz 2016)
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Removing guns for the hands of law abiding citizens does nothing to stop mass murdering nuts.

There, that is the sole “reasonable” discussion on guns we can have Leftists. Find another rabbit to chase Liberals, this dog won’t hunt.


20 posted on 12/07/2015 5:53:58 AM PST by MNJohnnie ( Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered)
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