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billh58

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Sat Feb 14, 2015, 10:56 AM Feb 2015

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What frustrates me so much is why do we need a court to tell us that the positive of guns randys1 Feb 2015 #1
If I had to venture a guess, billh58 Feb 2015 #2
Watching an old VICE on HBO about vets killing themselves with heroin overdose randys1 Feb 2015 #3
Thanks for this, I/we needed it, elleng Feb 2015 #4
The contortions and tortured exercises billh58 Feb 2015 #5
It is indeed. elleng Feb 2015 #6
The gunners hate Stevens' dissent. Hoyt Feb 2015 #7
Most right-wingers billh58 Feb 2015 #8

randys1

(16,286 posts)
1. What frustrates me so much is why do we need a court to tell us that the positive of guns
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 10:59 AM
Feb 2015

is outweighed by a measure of ten million to one by the negative.

Why would a mature adult population need to be forced not to buy and use guns to the point where nobody is safe?

billh58

(6,641 posts)
2. If I had to venture a guess,
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:07 AM
Feb 2015

I would say the main factors are: right-wing greed (gun and ammo profits), right-wing induced paranoia of "grabbers" (to sell guns and ammo), and the right-wing mentality concerning religion, race, and sex (need for a radical militia for the coming revolution against Liberalism).

randys1

(16,286 posts)
3. Watching an old VICE on HBO about vets killing themselves with heroin overdose
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:11 AM
Feb 2015

I wonder if those go down as suicides.

I wonder how many dead soldiers W and Cheney could be asked to answer for.

Could we take every penny the Bush dynasty has, the Cheney family, Halliburton, etal?

Give it all to vets?

I would - you rightwing war criminals are lucky someone like me isnt in charge

elleng

(136,185 posts)
4. Thanks for this, I/we needed it,
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:12 AM
Feb 2015

and of course you, Justice Stevens, and many more are correct.

billh58

(6,641 posts)
5. The contortions and tortured exercises
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:19 AM
Feb 2015

in logic that the right-wing gun lobby exhibits in attempting to hold Heller up as the definitive interpretation of the fairly plain language of the Second Amendment, and reinvent its actual meaning, is a wonder to behold.

elleng

(136,185 posts)
6. It is indeed.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:26 AM
Feb 2015

I still can't believe a 'majority' went for it.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
7. The gunners hate Stevens' dissent.
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:55 AM
Feb 2015

billh58

(6,641 posts)
8. Most right-wingers
Sat Feb 14, 2015, 11:56 AM
Feb 2015

hate Stevens' dissent, but in my estimation, that is a good thing...

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