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Gun Control Reform Activism

Timewas

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15. yes

Reply to Marcuse (Reply #9)

Tue Mar 27, 2018, 04:58 PM

Mar 2018

It was quite different then ...but owning a weapon was at that time almost a life and death necessity...Needed to protect from wild animals and some wild people... But mainly was needed just to eat in many cases...

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A well regulated militia, the gunner's myth exploded in two parts. [View all] flamin lib Mar 2018 OP

Now you've done it. billh58 Mar 2018 #1

yet ironically the gunners complain of activist courts HopeAgain Mar 2018 #2

But Timewas Mar 2018 #3

The phrasing is 'right of the people'. flamin lib Mar 2018 #5

I agree Timewas Mar 2018 #14

Also the 18th century militias were B. Y. O. B. Marcuse Mar 2018 #9

yes Timewas Mar 2018 #15

Because the militia of the day was made up of individual citizens louis c Mar 2018 #11

Time for Review of the 2nd Amendment and make Clarity Civic Justice Mar 2018 #4

Thank you! Duppers Mar 2018 #13

U.S. Constitution - Article 2 Section 2 SHRED Mar 2018 #6

One thing I am quite sure of is that the current prevailing interpretation is perverted bullshit world wide wally Mar 2018 #7

When a revolutionary government also adds in.. yallerdawg Mar 2018 #8

yeeppp....comin for your guns...everything they do and say is a lie mentalslavery Mar 2018 #10

Permanently bookmarking this Beauty. byronius Mar 2018 #12

On the frontier in the late 1700s nitpicker Mar 2018 #16

I have tried to tell people jarhead69 Jun 2018 #17