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Also reported as a duplicate, how many of these threads do we need? Let's keep the conversation in the other thread. What next a poll on buying guns on a Mon.? Is America safer with barettas or glocks?
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Hey we agree jsb!
Also reported as a duplicate, how many of these threads do we need? Let's keep the conversation in the other thread. What next a poll on buying guns on a Mon.? Is America safer with barettas or glocks?
Actually, I don't think they are loud enough, I think there should be an even bigger bang when you fire it. On second thought, I don't like the color of them either, I think they should be glow-in-the-dark too.
We all are taught many things wrong from birth; except that we are only human*,,, guns are just an extension of our stupidities and evolution... let's hope!
'Wrong. It is not a 'right' for someone mentally unstable to be able to get one, so don't split hairs. You are ALLOWED to have one if you pass a background check, just like you're ALLOWED to drive a car, if you can pass a driving test. Like you're ALLOWED to walk around, if you don't break laws. That's what it is...a privilege that can be taken away. You are either a troll or just dimwitted.'
Every sentence there is bending the truth.This person has had practice.Lots of it!
Oh? since you're an expert, tell me what's bending the truth?
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That is what the average American is up against. While they are busy working and raising families these types work on ways to deceive them. This person could write deceptive ballot measures that sound like they mean one thing and actually do the other. The insane person killing people has nothing to do with average people keeping firearms in there home or owning them period.Constitutional right to bear arms.
So why don't you tell us (instead of whining) how exactly you can tell the insane person wanting a gun from someone who ISN'T?? Remember: you don't want any sort of regulations, background checks, etc., right?? Tell us how you do it.
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This person has a invalid and empty argument.It is just 'take firearms' blather.
Except for the parts where I specifically say that banning is NOT an option, nor should it be? Or that I have many? Right.
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'Far better to take guns away from idiots and nuts.' I agree with him on that.That person just wrote that sloppily.What the person wants is to rewrite the Constitution and take away the RIGHT to bear arms.
Very typical reaction from someone like you. Pushed on your point, you rant about how *THEY* want to ban things, twist words, etc., without actually addressing any of what was said. Misdirection, and it's typical from someone who has entered into an argument without being informed, and then won't admit it.
Looks like this is more about the topic then the subject matter itself. How strange, it went from "right to bear arms" to the "right to have freedom of speech". and didn't someone else already talk about right to bear arms before. Which has and will always be talked about, therefore repeated repeatedly.
If someone leaves in a house that they actually need a gun firearm to protect it and its possessions and habitat in this day and age. I'd suggest looking for a different place to live.
As far as owning a gun or firearm for the sake of having one. Yeah. why not? Guns are cool. Nothing wrong with taking pot shots at a small tree branch to see if you can shoot it off the tree at 500 or more yards, target shooting, skeet shooting and just killing for something to eat.
“I have all the guns and the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within,” Brown told the party,
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Hoover created a secret agency to destroy the party with a mission to “expose, disrupt, misdirect, discredit or otherwise neutralize” party members, according to FBI records.
Black Panther party had all that and a bag of chips.
Cops would shoot 1st. Proven in court already. Cops did not like them using scanners and protecting the neighborhood from police brutality.
Your mention of cops only being minutes away as a argument.
Location, location, location. Attitude , attitude, attitude.
Cop protection, for Americans vary from color of skin, religious preferences,
income status, as well as how that officer looks at you one day. If he is having a bad day. Guess what? You might be drawn into his day.
Having had a officers gun pulled and drawn and cocked in my direction. Because the officer was insecure and afeared. Well. Ride with me and see the real world.
Not experience from some airy fairy online assumptions from a laptop,desktop, phone, or what ever.
Ambiguous at best. My take. It is execution by cop. Not unheard of when they are out to get you.
Just another reason I like living in the boonies.
@ the OP. You need to smell the roses.
Not the air freshener.
Blanket statements like safer never cover details.
Details count alot when it comes to gun play.
Like the Waco shooting. Most deaths were induced by ATF. The po po.
No harm no foul, I guess. They had protection < Waco residents >. But when they wanna get ya. They got ya. I guess after Waco. Things cooled down abit in TX.
I'd be more afeared of the Zika Virus or Lyme disease effecting my life than guns. But it is nice to know. If the world get any crazier as I get older.
I got options.Because when it comes to survival. Mobility is a good survival tool to have. If they decide I am important enough to put down. I can re-locate on a motorcycle. If a helicopter is in their budget with a infa red unit .
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“He’s southbound on Carter Lake Shore Drive, coming up on Locust,” said Officer Jason Messerschmidt, who was maneuvering the new camera to follow the blue motorcycle. “And he’s still doing wheelies, that’s cool.”
Guess what. I'm screwed.
Safer is state of mind for me. Feel safe by my dogs. At home. On the street.
Only armament on my immediate person is a flashlight and multi tool.
In a no win situation. I lose.
So far. I've avoided no win situations. MacGyver , I aint.
The right to bear arms IS A RIGHT. Guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the constitution.
Americans can say what they want and this American is saying it.
And this Englishman is saying "who cares about your constitution?" This is an international forum and the rest of the world is simply bored by stuff like this. Save it for Twitter.
And also this non-american citizen is saying "who cares about your constitution?" This is an international forum and the rest of the world is simply bored by stuff like this. Save it for reddit.
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Looks like this is more about the topic then the subject matter itself. How strange, it went from "right to bear arms" to the "right to have freedom of speech". and didn't someone else already talk about right to bear arms before. Which has and will always be talked about, therefore repeated repeatedly.
If someone leaves in a house that they actually need a gun firearm to protect it and its possessions and habitat in this day and age. I'd suggest looking for a different place to live.
As far as owning a gun or firearm for the sake of having one. Yeah. why not? Guns are cool. Nothing wrong with taking pot shots at a small tree branch to see if you can shoot it off the tree at 500 or more yards, target shooting, skeet shooting and just killing for something to eat.
Well, without the right to bear arms, you cannot have free speech, or without the 2nd Amendment, the 1st amendment is meaningless.
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And this Englishman is saying "who cares about your constitution?" This is an international forum and the rest of the world is simply bored by stuff like this. Save it for Twitter.
Noone is making you read the thread or respond to it: Nothing to see here carry on.
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