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billh58

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1. "The Democrats are comin' to take your guns"
Sun Jul 23, 2017, 04:20 PM
Jul 2017

is the message the NRA/ILA/GOA/KKK has been shouting for years, and gullible people believe it. They take the banning of a single firearm (assault rifle) and make it a national rallying cry against reason and sanity.

These are the same people who actually believe that the Second Amendment is meant to legitimize the overthrow of the elected government of the United States because Billy Bob thinks he's being forced to live under political tyranny. To Billy Bob and other Second Amendment absolutists, "tyranny" is defined as women's rights, Obama Care, a minimum wage, school lunch programs, and other Democratic social values.

Then there are the "gun rights" apologists who jump on the right-wing gun lobby's bandwagon because they actually believe the "coming for your guns" claptrap.

The message? Keep your guns at home when you're not going hunting or to the range, and respect the rights of non-gun owners to go about their business in gun-free public spaces. What's that? Only the criminals will have guns in public? Enforce existing laws relating to possession of guns in public, and make new laws to address the gun violence epidemic with very stiff penalties.

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