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Do Firearms Still Have a Place in American Society?
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| 10/25/2016
| Gilbert Randolph
Posted on 10/31/2016 7:08:21 AM PDT by rktman
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University of Missouri -Kansas City. Benefit of article? Who knows. Some of the comments are interesting. I'll err on the side of Yes, they still have a place. For citizens. Subjects, not so much.
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:08:21 AM PDT
by
rktman
To: rktman
As long as there is a government that we cannot trust, yes!
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:10:15 AM PDT
by
knighthawk
(We will always remember We will always be proud We will always be prepared so we may always be free)
To: rktman
How else can I protect my family. The courts just recycle the criminals, so I have no other choice!
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:10:24 AM PDT
by
refermech
To: rktman
They may have a HUGE place in 9 days.
To: rktman
The far right and the far left are exaggerating and arbitrarily simplifying what is an extremely nuanced and philosophical question. I don't think it's nuanced at all. I have a right to defend myself. That's all that needs to be said.
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:11:16 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
To: rktman
To: rktman
Right on my hip and slung over my shoulder until needed.
That’s their place.
L
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:11:58 AM PDT
by
Lurker
(It takes a village to burn a witch.)
To: rktman
As long as there are criminals who would steal my property and take my life for no reason whatsoever, there’ll always be a need for law abiding citizens to possess firearms.
To: rktman
Sure they do. On my hip or in my gun rack.
Same places they rested for my dad and my grand father. Why change now?
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:12:31 AM PDT
by
KC Burke
(Consider all of my posts as first drafts. (Apologies to L. Niven))
To: rktman
America doesn't need a lesson from a wannabe institution in Jackson County, MO. The same county that spent more money per student than anyone in the nation, and had nothing to show for it.
Racial divide? Troost St. UMKC can go to hell.
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:13:52 AM PDT
by
Salvavida
(The restoration of the U.S.A. starts with filling the pews at every Bible-believing church.)
To: rktman
Quote:
“What place do firearms have in American society?”
To protect me an mine from a two-tier, lawless, criminal government that in 8 days may be given a blessing by a decadent, degenerate voting public.
“The right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed..”
End of “discussion.”
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:14:00 AM PDT
by
TTFlyer
To: rktman
And this is what passes for an academic paper?
No wonder that non-STEM departments are regarded with the same respect as were Chevy Vegas.
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:14:48 AM PDT
by
deoetdoctrinae
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To: rktman
Yet citizens keep and bear arms more now.
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:14:58 AM PDT
by
Biggirl
("One Lord, one faith, one baptism" - Ephesians 4:5)
To: rktman
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:15:37 AM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
To: rktman
Yes. And they always will.
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:18:39 AM PDT
by
proud American in Canada
(May God Bless the U.S.A. (Trump: I will bear the slings and arrows for you, the American people))
To: rktman
Hey,Gilbert,guess which well known American once uttered these words:
Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms. This is not to say that firearms should not be very carefully used, and that definite safety rules of precaution should not be taught and enforced. But the right of citizens to bear arms is just one more guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible."
A hint for all you Freepers...it was Hubert H Humphrey
To: rktman
Inherently complicated? Nope.
To: rktman
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posted on
10/31/2016 7:19:01 AM PDT
by
tomkat
(we are legion .. we are pissed .. and we are coming !)
To: rktman
Do government funded universities still have a place in American society?
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