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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: YES, THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)17. Your comment #15 is representative of extreme prohibitionism...
        Because of this Widely-shared prohibitionist sentiment, it is next to impossible for Any talk (let alone proposals) which might reach concensus.
You really don't want to face your bald contradiction:  You speak of "discussion" and "possible solutions," yet you lay out your position in #15.  This is EXACTLY the phenomenon explained in the OP!
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        You know, I don't fear confiscation because the controllers don't have the juice...
        Eleanors38
        Nov 2015
        #4
      
        
        So your support of something in the Constitution is not extreme but my support is?
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #20
      
        
        You're essentially saying incrementalism is worse than thousands of needless deaths each year.
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #25
      
        
        We may disagree on the need to repeal the 2A but I do respect your overall Constitution support
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #30
      
        
        Whose approach is in question? Was this meant to be satirical or do you actually believe this?
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #12
      
        
        Tens of millions may feel that right is important but tens of millions also vote Republican.
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #18
      
        
        If you want to talk objectively, then people obviously don't need guns - they simply want them.
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #27
      
        
        I suppose you have a Scarlet Letter system to identify that alleged .1%, right?
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #31
      
        
        You said to focus on the .1% but you never said how to do it. How are we to identify them?
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #33
      
        
        When multiple people are murdered regularly with a knife or billy club or other object
        LonePirate
        Nov 2015
        #40
      
        
        Gun lovers, like most lovers, will do anything to protect the beloved....that is clear enough.
        Fred Sanders
        Nov 2015
        #62
      
        
        .....snip....snip...sniping logic from the debate is of course all the gun lovers have to work with.
        Fred Sanders
        Nov 2015
        #8
      
        
        Makes sense - the only way to drastically reduce levels of gun-related crime/violence is to
        jmg257
        Nov 2015
        #10
      
        
        Reduce the number of guns is indeed the only solution now....control the guns by not having them!
        Fred Sanders
        Nov 2015
        #47
      
        
        How do you propose to get the 20-25% of the population that own guns to acquiesce?
        friendly_iconoclast
        Nov 2015
        #57
      
        
        Gun love is unquenchable...you have to take away the object of the love.....the gun.
        Fred Sanders
        Nov 2015
        #56