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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Banning guns versus banning alcohol. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)49. With the repeal of prohibition, the people ceded that regulation to...
...the states. The feds got out of the prohibition bidness.
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heck, you can be a full blown alcoholic and buy alcohol while high on drugs
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#4
how do you know he didn't drink a fifth of vodka before he walked into that club
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#19
"you can obtain one if you obtain a FFL (not hard to do) and can afford to pay for the weapon"... or
Ghost in the Machine
Jun 2016
#45
It amazes me that Roberts, Scalia et al. didn't try to roll that one back too. NT
Jerry442
Jun 2016
#6
I'm quite clear on the difference between auto and semi-auto. I also know that...
Jerry442
Jun 2016
#12
I encourage all reading this to research this issue on their own and form their own conclusions.
Jerry442
Jun 2016
#16
Your reply to your interlocutor has a whopping strawman argument at the center of it
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#27
outside of the movies and the ones stolen from cops and national guard armories
gejohnston
Jun 2016
#11
Because full autos were never common in civilian hands, and semiautos work well for civilian use.
benEzra
Jun 2016
#55
The gun prohibitionists have taken a gradualist approach, hence the calls for...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#28
"Next time" someone kills over a hundred with fertilizer and fuel oil. I've been told.
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#51
you know how silly it is to assume coke and heroin dealers go to the local gun store?
gejohnston
Jun 2016
#41