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Gun Control & RKBA

Straw Man

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5. What's a "justifiable need"?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue Apr 26, 2016, 10:58 AM

Apr 2016

Currently one must show a “justifiable need” to carry a gun because of a specific threat to one’s life.

Somebody shot at you and missed? Somebody stabbed you but you survived? Somebody threatened to kill you and you have it in writing or on an audio recording? You're testifying against organized crime figures?

Why don't we just wait until the applicants are actually killed? Then we'll be sure that the need was justifiable.

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