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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Questions on gun-control/rights [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)46. No. Its YOU who are confused.
There are endless exemptions to your rights:
Did someone say there wasn't?
Those rights don't belong to you as much as you might think they do.
Yes, they do.
You can't walk around nude.
People do it all the time in San Francisco, I can do it here on my property, and where I can't, it is because my rights were interfered with via due process, just like I said.
You can't buy certain plants.
Interfered with via due process.
You have substantially fewer right than you think.
I don't have to show I.D. to buy plastic dinner utensils, maybe your perception is wrong.
I'm suggesting taking away another, to protect society as a whole.
Of course you are. Its just a complete freak coincidence that you hate guns.
It's not an uncommon practice in fact.
When it comes to constitutionally protected civil rights, its far more uncommon than you would ever be happy with.
And if guns were as hard to get as anthrax or say the black death - legal but almost impossible to get - that would also be fine.
Comparing guns which are inanimate, to disease which is alive and acts completely on its own, is a great way to move any discussion forward, its worked so well for your anti-gun brothers and sisters over the years. Its made the anti-gun movement the legislative 800 pound gorilla we know it as today.
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On your statement about Jefferson: I think you've been somewhat misled about him.
Decoy of Fenris
Jun 2016
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