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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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2. According to NRA apologists

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #1)

Fri Aug 12, 2016, 04:30 PM

Aug 2016

and Second Amendment absolutists, the study of gun safety issues is only illegal if the results determine that guns are a major cause of gun violence. Results of this nature are not allowed by the Second Amendment.

If the study concludes that guns are completely safe and lead to a more polite society, then it's legal.

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