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Written by :Lurch
My freedom is more important to me than my safety. If you can't understand that then you won't understand me.
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I choose to possess my legally unconcealed firearm and enjoy my U.S. Second Amendment rights to keep and bear arms. Walsh [the author] chooses not to do so, and instead to enjoy her U.S. First Amendment rights to free speech. The differences between us don't end there, however.
I enjoy my rights freely and because I choose to do so, but she enjoys hers for cash payments and professional enhancement.
I encourage her to enjoy hers with integrity, but she opposes mine despite my integrity.
My enjoyment of rights helps guarantee that she can continue enjoying hers, but her enjoyment advocates the abolition of mine.
I agree that others who abuse their rights to arms must lose them, but she has never agreed that others who abuse their rights to speech must lose them.
I like knowing that there are groups which defend her rights to speech, but she castigates groups which defend my rights to arms.
I agree that others who enjoy their rights to speech aren't tainted by those who abuse them, but she blames others who enjoy their rights to arms for the abuse of a relative few.
I like that all her rights are guaranteed by the U.S. Bill of Rights, but she would like to pick and choose mine.
I accept that there are others who oppose my rights to arms, but she seems unable to abide others who oppose her rights to speech.
And finally, I understand the gravity of my rights to arms and act accordingly to avoid even the slightest mistake, but she seems nonplussed when she gets her facts dead wrong.
Now, who's the bigger threat to our nation?
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Written by :Lurch
You don't have the "right to be free of guns" At least not in the sense that you can restrict my right to have them.
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I hope and pray there is never another 'World War' with similar consiquences as the holocaust, but I know it will probably happen, and worse, at some point. As much as we would like otherwise history does repeat itself.
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Civilian guns may not play much of a role if you try and take a hippie suburb in California, but you start invading "hick" towns in the Mid/NorthWest and shits gonna hit the fan, and you'll see pissed off American's like you've never seen before.
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But that doesn't change the fact that you're restricting the rights of the people, and to make it worse, you don't care because A: it made you uneasy to begin with, and B: You don't exercise that right in your personal life so it doesn't effect you. Neither of those seem like particularly good reasons to me..
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THE MEEK WILL INHERIT THE EARTH!
If that's okay with you?
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There's a lot more restrictions about owning/driving a car than owning a gun- on the grounds that they're dangerous when misused. Is this a restriction of people's rights? Why/why not? Is it just because cars weren't invented when the US bill of rights was drawn up?
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There's a lot of different weaponry in existance, from pocket knives up to nukes- where exactly do you draw the line between 'reasonable for a private person to possess' and 'only suitable for the (US) military'? And why?
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Personally, I draw the line around the point a potential weapon can *only* be used as a weapon- it annoys me a bit that the UK govenment bans me from taking my pocket knife (mainly used for sharpening pencils) around with me on the grounds that it locks open, but I support the gun restrictions on the grounds that allowing everyone to own a gun can start what is basically a small-scale arms race between criminals and non-criminals. I don't believe that allowing the general public to carry a gun will deter armed muggers/robbers, it seems to me it'll just ensure they carry a gun in case their victims have one too, and increase the chances of someone- on either side- firing. I also can't imagine a situation where the US gets invaded despite the military, and a bunch of armed cilvilians repel the invasion- though I can see it making a popular film script..
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Guns are just too easy to make a mistake with- it only takes a second to shoot the teenage intruder climbing over your back fence; if you grabbed the kitchen knife to defend yourself, you might spot the football he just kicked over.. I know that's an extreme and hypothetical situation, but it's not entirely unrealistic. I wholeheartedly support my government (a pretty unusual thing for me ) in trying to reduce the odds of me getting shot, intentionally or by accident, even if it does mean when The Bad Guys invade I'll have to fight back with the kitchen knife or a pitchfork.
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Written by :Lurch
Me carrying a gun does nothing to threaten, or harm you.
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You cite Fark as your example of people you don't want to have guns?
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But idiots will carry guns regardless of whether it's legal for them to or not.
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As a side note, hooray for the supreme court ruling in favor of the private citizen in terms of the 2nd Amendment!
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You having a gun means others have the right to a gun, other people like these. Unless they've started demanding IQ tests and a teetotal pledge with the gun license, that means a lot of drunken idiots with guns.
Idiots+guns=/=saftey
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So let me ask you this, if you put yourself in the criminals mind, as a mugger. Would you rather arm yourself with a gun, and go after another person with a gun, who has gone through the training and jumped the hoops to make sure its legal, and would probably be perfectly willing to fight for their life. Or would you rather go after someone who is unarmed and scared?
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As a side note, hooray for the supreme court ruling in favor of the private citizen in terms of the 2nd Amendment!
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Writing for the majority, Justice Antonin Scalia said that an individual right to bear arms is supported by "the historical narrative" both before and after the Second Amendment was adopted.
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DC had an extremely unreasonable ban on all handguns, and rifles/shotguns had to be disassembled unloaded and locked. Making them useless for a defensive situation, and the law wasn't even clear if they *could* be used in defense of a person. But the criminals still had their guns, and used them openly because no one could oppose them legally.
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Lurch, you have told me before that it is difficult to detect a concealed weapon, so how would a criminal know you had a concealed weapon?
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So I take umbrage at the suggestion that someone who is unarmed is scared or a coward.
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I thought the lower court ruling was a face, and I still cannot fathom how an amendment reading: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" can somehow be interpreted as giving the right to individuals to bear arms.
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That’s funny, the Mayor of Washington DC fears more handgun violence. And from what you say, it seems like this ruling could be the start of an 'arms race' between civilians and criminals. Not to mention that the ruling against “trigger guards” and other safety measures could see an escalation in accidents and violence in the home.
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Lurch, you have told me before that it is difficult to detect a concealed weapon, so how would a criminal know you had a concealed weapon?
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So I take umbrage at the suggestion that someone who is unarmed is scared or a coward.
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I thought the lower court ruling was a face, and I still cannot fathom how an amendment reading: "A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed" can somehow be interpreted as giving the right to individuals to bear arms.
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That’s funny, the Mayor of Washington DC fears more handgun violence. And from what you say, it seems like this ruling could be the start of an 'arms race' between civilians and criminals. Not to mention that the ruling against “trigger guards” and other safety measures could see an escalation in accidents and violence in the home.
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Do you think it's pure coincidence that the major cities that have insanely strict gun laws also have the highest murder rates and gun violence?
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Faith
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Then doesn't it stand the guns don't make the violence anyways. So what's the problem
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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If we as members of the human race practice meditation, we can transcend our fear, despair, and forgetfulness. Meditation is not an escape. It is the courage to look at reality with mindfulness and concentration. Thich Nhat Hanh
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