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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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14. Oh, I quite agree with you on that.

Reply to yagotme (Reply #12)

Sat Dec 17, 2016, 01:53 PM

Dec 2016

As a practical matter, if a gun confiscation roundup were to occur, the government would be prepared by a few algorithms which would i.d. most gun-owners. Then the question would be: How many/what type do you keep "off book." By that time, civilian governance would be off book.

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With all of the talk [View all] sarisataka Dec 2016 OP

Yeah, hats off to the pro-gun movement, for preventing a fascist takeover of this country. Paladin Dec 2016 #1

No one has prevented anything yet sarisataka Dec 2016 #2

Sooner or later we may find that our government has been taken over ... spin Dec 2016 #3

Face it, the three branches of government are actually: Throck Dec 2016 #4

Good point! (n/t) spin Dec 2016 #5

C. Wright Mill rides again! Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #7

Trump with a list of gun owners? samir.g Dec 2016 #6

Donors? yagotme Dec 2016 #8

And there are millions gun-owners which didn't support him.... Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #9

Which is something to worry about, yagotme Dec 2016 #10

For many reasons, a heavily-armed civilian population is not what I worry about... Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #11

Perhaps you misunderstood my post, yagotme Dec 2016 #12

Oh, I quite agree with you on that. Eleanors38 Dec 2016 #14

And it would quickly go downhill from there. n/t yagotme Dec 2016 #15

Well, my guns are safe gejohnston Dec 2016 #13