Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

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46. It would be nice if the gun-ban fundamentalists would acknowledge this fact from time to time...

Fri Mar 10, 2017, 07:28 PM

Mar 2017

....over thirty thousand gun deaths a year, they say, mostly either suicides or murders with small-caliber handguns by already-prohibited criminals, and the fundamentalists are tied up in knots obsessing about the size/shape of rifle handgrips and magazines, and how to prevent the peaceable and nonviolent from owning them.

Rifle Homicides, 2005-2015
2005: 442
2006: 436
2007: 450
2008: 375
2009: 348
2010: 358
2011: 323
2012: 302
2013: 285
2014: 248
2015: 252
(Source: FBI Uniform Crime Reports 2005-2015, Table 20, Collated)

Massachusetts has averaged less than one rifle murder per year for the last decade or so, and yet the fundies *still* pushed through a middle-of-the-night ban on the most popular rifles. That is irrational, and absolutely counterproductive.

If you are willing to throw away election after election because you are obsessed with rifle and magazine bans, you have totally lost sight of your goals, unless your goal is simply to screw people who live their lives differently than you do.

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Maryland's assault weapons ban upheld by US appeals court [View all] needledriver Feb 2017 OP

And all guns are weapons of war so this bans all guns scscholar Feb 2017 #1

Silly me discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2017 #3

I do not agree with what you say, Sir, needledriver Feb 2017 #4

But if the Second Amendment is about the militia, sarisataka Feb 2017 #5

Yes. Wasn't that the gov'ts case in Miller? yagotme Feb 2017 #9

I am sure trump would agree. Doing so would give his authoritative forces so much more power. jmg257 Feb 2017 #7

It's astonishing that so many Controllers have yet to figure out...... pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #11

I rather think it was written AGAINST that sort of menace n/t discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2017 #15

I think that you think that he thought you would think that. yagotme Feb 2017 #18

"Guangzhou is a chemical weapons plant masquerading as a fertilizer plant. discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2017 #19

Thank you. I think. pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #20

Of course better way of stating the point would have been....... pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #21

Yeah, I hate it when I type something, yagotme Feb 2017 #23

Agree. MarvinGardens Feb 2017 #2

"Put simply, we have no power to extend Second Amendment protections to weapons of war" WTF?? jmg257 Feb 2017 #6

How about these weapons of war? benEzra Mar 2017 #44

What's next, a ban on "assault speech"? N77VG Feb 2017 #8

It's called "hate" speech. yagotme Feb 2017 #10

I'm hugely offended when the 'christian right' (which is neither) pushes for hate against ME N77VG Feb 2017 #16

Yes, it's human nature to want to shut someone down yagotme Feb 2017 #17

I got yer "assault weapon" right here. pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #12

My SKS will pass too. Hangingon Feb 2017 #13

As will my M1 Garands oneshooter Feb 2017 #14

thats not a battle rifle wincest Feb 2017 #25

You might want to ask oneshooter Mar 2017 #43

my apoligies wincest Mar 2017 #51

I was once like you, young and on a budget. oneshooter Mar 2017 #54

"Why is it that Liberals will twist themselves into emotional knots......." pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #22

If a person you talk to keeps spouting obvious lies, yagotme Feb 2017 #24

GOOD!!! 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2017 #26

may i ask wincest Feb 2017 #27

All guns are assault weapons. I'm totally anti-gun. 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2017 #28

Then don't own one. benEzra Mar 2017 #45

Good that we're turning over the nation to the GOP to no good end? pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #29

Guns BAD. 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2017 #30

Well now THERE'S intelligent discourse!! NT pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #31

Wanted you to understand it. 50 Shades Of Blue Feb 2017 #32

More like cowardice. NT pablo_marmol Feb 2017 #33

A common misconception. ManiacJoe Mar 2017 #37

And The Controllers refer to us as knuckle-draggers, while they.......... pablo_marmol Mar 2017 #40

Better round them up, then. yagotme Mar 2017 #49

rubbish jimmy the one Feb 2017 #34

Your header, at least, was accurate- much of what you posted *was* rubbish friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #35

Thank you for your reply needledriver Mar 2017 #36

OOOOOOOOOK, lahoma jimmy the one Mar 2017 #38

Still no evidence of these purported "conversion kits"- smells like Trump's 'wiretaps' to me. friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #39

"Reread what I wrote". I did- and the parts you bolded are *also* incorrect: friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #41

iconic nut jimmy the one Mar 2017 #42

This message was self-deleted by its author friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #48

"Off our streets". yagotme Mar 2017 #50

Prepare yourself for a verbose word-salad that doesn't really answer your question friendly_iconoclast Mar 2017 #53

I know. yagotme Mar 2017 #57

Oh, that's rich. So very rich. Straw Man Mar 2017 #55

I'd like to see a citation of even one Senate/House "assault weapons ban" bill in the last ten years benEzra Mar 2017 #56

It would be nice if the gun-ban fundamentalists would acknowledge this fact from time to time... benEzra Mar 2017 #46

I hate to think of instances of the words... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2017 #47

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