Gun Control & RKBA

friendly_iconoclast

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11. How does this sound?: "I'm an advocate of the 1st Amendment"

Wed Feb 28, 2018, 01:04 PM

Feb 2018

"with the understood means of 'speech': Quill pens, and hand-cranked printing presses. The Industrial Revolution brought us the high-speed offset press, telegraph, and radio"

It makes little logical sense to declare that the Second Amendment only applies to what was applicable in
the 18th Century, when all the rest of the Constitution is generally held to apply in the current day.

Ban the AR-15 and any similar weapon adapted from warfare weapons.

You do realize that all weapons were 'adapted from warfare weapons', don't you?

That includes *all* of those that you intimated were suitable for public ownership in your post.

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IMHO, it would be darn near impossible to completely ban the AR-15 [View all] Kaleva Feb 2018 OP

Then we just get to shrug our shoulders PoindexterOglethorpe Feb 2018 #1

Which of those would be safe to fire into a room full of six year olds? nt Atticus Feb 2018 #2

According to some people, the ones not "assault weapons". krispos42 Feb 2018 #5

All of them, why. yagotme Mar 2018 #16

You obviously have WAY too much time on your hands. nt Atticus Mar 2018 #17

I'm here, aren' I??? yagotme Mar 2018 #18

"IMHO, it would be darn near impossible to completely ban the AR-15" Comatose Sphagetti Feb 2018 #3

Yes. They tried it in Australia, and look where that got them. We should just give up. Squinch Feb 2018 #4

Let's look at what it got them. krispos42 Feb 2018 #6

I'm not sure why you are giving me those statistics. You know my post was sarcastic, right? Squinch Feb 2018 #12

Are we going to apply the 'dozens of lives' standard equally to all human-death related issues? AtheistCrusader Mar 2018 #19

I am pretty sure that the restrictions GaryCnf Feb 2018 #7

I'm an advocate of the 2nd Amendment leanforward Feb 2018 #8

The AR generally uses gejohnston Feb 2018 #9

How does this sound?: "I'm an advocate of the 1st Amendment" friendly_iconoclast Feb 2018 #11

A "pump action AR15" flotsam Feb 2018 #10

Did I say it was? Kaleva Feb 2018 #13

This message was self-deleted by its author sl8 Mar 2018 #14

There are bolt action rifles made on the AR platform, yagotme Mar 2018 #15