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Gun Control Reform Activism

BrotherIvan

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8. Gunners will argue they need to be armed at all times in public

Reply to Hoyt (Reply #7)

Mon Feb 16, 2015, 03:16 AM

Feb 2015

But the standard should not be overwhelming fear and paranoia. Any person with a gun is a threat in compared to an unarmed person. Because that gun can discharge at any time. Or that person can be a little bit angry and an argument turns deadly. And they are putting innocent peoople at risk because they live in some cowboy fantasy.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] billh58 Feb 2015 OP

please keep it going guillaumeb Feb 2015 #1

Yes shenmue Feb 2015 #2

Seems sensible to me.... daleanime Feb 2015 #5

The gist: with proper regulation, there shouldn't be ANY need to "confiscate yer guns." K&R Beartracks Feb 2015 #3

At the core of the gun rights movement is absolutism. flamin lib Feb 2015 #4

The argument always is "the right to defend oneself" BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #6

+1. A gun or two AT HOME doesn't really concern me. A bunch of guns and/or public toting, does. Hoyt Feb 2015 #7

Gunners will argue they need to be armed at all times in public BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #8

As Justice Stevens noted in his dissent in Heller: billh58 Feb 2015 #9

on the mark again guillaumeb Feb 2015 #10

Most excellent BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #11

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