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The Mouth

(3,292 posts)
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 01:11 PM Oct 2022

And another attempt at suppressing RKBA gets slapped down

https://www.cnn.com/2022/10/06/politics/new-york-gun-law-restraining-order/index.html

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/65364032/antonyuk-v-hochul/?filed_after=&filed_before=&entry_gte=&entry_lte=&order_by=desc

Are you listening Gavin?

You can't make it harder to own and carry a gun than you make it to vote, protest, or write a letter to the editor. Rights are rights, and the fact that some assholes don't like other people exercising their rights means exactly zero. In fact, I take a lot of glee at watching people who would restrict my rights - be that who I marry, what I carry, what I write, or if I protest - being made miserable.

And the emergency appeal is GOING to get slapped down, as it should. The only thing any attempts to restrict *any* rights should result in are horrific legal bills for those trying to impinge upon them. The fact someone might be bothered by me carrying a firearm means exactly as little to me as the fact they may be bothered that I have a husband of the same sex as myself, in other words LESS than zero, a feature not a bug.
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Gore1FL

(21,931 posts)
4. I hope we can one day do so.
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 01:26 PM
Oct 2022

I am told by my NRA-loving "friends" that that is what it will take to have the much needed gun control in this country to keep bullets out of, among other things, school children.

jimfields33

(19,137 posts)
5. The time to do it was during FDR's presidency.
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 01:49 PM
Oct 2022

The Democratic Party had practically everything and super majorities. A lot of states were democratic supporters as well. The entire south was a Democratic. It’s a shame nobody thought to do it then. It’ll probably take decades to do it now if ever.

Gore1FL

(21,931 posts)
12. A lot of kids in school with clear bullet-proof backpacks might want something better.
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 02:43 PM
Oct 2022

When they grow up, they will likely have a different view on what freedom is, and what "freedoms" they want for their own kids.
I may not live to see it, but I think it is closer than it appears now.

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,894 posts)
3. Gun love trumps human life for gun lovers. Makes sense for a country
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 01:19 PM
Oct 2022

that started by invaders stealing the land from the indigenous people and enslaving them and other people they consider inferior to them in order to encrich themselves. Of course gun love is greater than love for human life, human life is nothing compared to being able to strap an obscene weapon on yourself and show it off to that mindset.

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AndyS

(14,559 posts)
9. According to FBI stats
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 02:26 PM
Oct 2022

the good guy with a gun assumes room temperature 5x more often then not.

Science and facts make no difference to gun nutz unless they can be massaged to fit NRA talking points.

AndyS

(14,559 posts)
18. There is not ambivalence to the stats.
Sat Oct 8, 2022, 12:26 PM
Oct 2022

Armed resistance to a 'bad guy' is 5x more likely to result in the one resisting being injured or killed.

pwb

(12,202 posts)
6. The brave people are the unarmed people.
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 01:59 PM
Oct 2022

What do open carry people do when they are home? Hide under the bed?

The Mouth

(3,292 posts)
8. I think open carry is utterly stupid
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 02:06 PM
Oct 2022

But tell you what, try to break into my home when I'm there; I can rather assure you I'm not hiding under the bed, LOL. As with abortions or same sex marriages, if you don't like 'em, don't have one.

Scrivener7

(52,891 posts)
13. Ever notice that gun-humpers always feel entitled to eloquence and reasoning after they
Thu Oct 6, 2022, 02:44 PM
Oct 2022

spew moronic crap?

It's an interesting view into their distorted thinking, don't you think?

Response to Scrivener7 (Reply #13)

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