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6. Sure you can (the NRA building, at least). They have a public shooting range.

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 04:17 PM

Dec 2012

Now with free WiFi, apparently.

The Capitol is a gun-free zone for non-LEO's. Unlike most gun-free zones, they have armed guards and a metal detector.

The most recent mass shooting in the US Capitol was 1998.

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Can Extreme Gun Control Coexist with Equality Under the Law? [View all] TPaine7 Dec 2012 OP

It *can*, it just hasn't yet Recursion Dec 2012 #1

You can't walk into the NRA building or Congress with your gun! MightyMopar Dec 2012 #4

Sure you can (the NRA building, at least). They have a public shooting range. Recursion Dec 2012 #6

+1 HiPointDem Dec 2012 #24

Please define extreme gun control. n/t Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #2

Gun control that is transparently hypocritical, that violates the Second Amendment TPaine7 Dec 2012 #66

So you don't think there should be any gun control? Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #75

How does much of Europe, Oceania, Canada live in freedom without the 2nd amendment? MightyMopar Dec 2012 #3

This reads a lot like the Turner Diaries and loads of other paranoid Libertarian drivel. bettyellen Dec 2012 #5

It's true, but it has the wrong tone, so you hope it's ignored and truth is overridden? Ok. nt TPaine7 Dec 2012 #10

It isn't true. JDPriestly Dec 2012 #33

You read the 2nd Amendment the way Scalia reads the rest of the Constitution Bake Dec 2012 #64

Where is this talk of magazines coming from? The antecedent of "it" is clearly the statements TPaine7 Dec 2012 #68

Nice way to call the gun worshipper a racist... realgreen Dec 2012 #29

Maybe, it's an imortant question not just to gun owners but the mentally ill HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #7

So you wrote Obama a letter with links to WorldNetDaily and reason.com and David Kopel? DanTex Dec 2012 #8

Point out the factual errors (like I pointed out your bald-faced personal lie about me) and we can TPaine7 Dec 2012 #9

You haven't even attempted to make a factual argument. DanTex Dec 2012 #11

It's an opinion piece that quotes statements of fact. Look up "fact" then get back to me. TPaine7 Dec 2012 #16

An opinion piece that selectively reports facts and omits others to arrive at right-wing conclusions DanTex Dec 2012 #21

Thanks for your tacit admission that everything I said was true, despite your sourcing diversion nt TPaine7 Dec 2012 #23

LOL. Nice one. DanTex Dec 2012 #27

I love a dose of right wing libertarian none sense in the morning. nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #12

I would say I love tripe from people who substitute labels for reasoning while dodging substance, TPaine7 Dec 2012 #14

Word net daily nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #15

The link is gone, the source is gone, the truth is still there. nt TPaine7 Dec 2012 #20

Your paranoid truth that is nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #22

Why is it that when the subject has anything to do with guns so many people can't seem to TPaine7 Dec 2012 #47

Have fun...the reception nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #48

There is a kernal of truth in this though Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #59

A total ban would only pass after a civil war nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #61

I don't think you comprehended what I was saying Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #62

And those of us living in reality, not the OP incidentally, nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #63

It was part of MY discussion within the thread. I am totally understanding it. Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #65

Why won't you answer any of my questions? Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #45

Because I went to a Christmas event. Is that OK? TPaine7 Dec 2012 #69

Yes! Have a wonderful Christmas. Sekhmets Daughter Dec 2012 #76

Just curious...do you think the mentally ill can preserve their rights HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #18

Just curious nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #25

You could have answered first. But I'll ante up HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #30

You sure realize nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #35

No I don't think you are the NRA. But the mentally ill have a stake, they have rights, too. HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #36

You are talking of the universe nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #39

NO. I AM TRYING TO DRAW ATTENTION to the rights of the vast majority of the mentally ill HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #40

So let me get this straight nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #42

I think you are avoiding, you still haven't answered my question HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #44

I have told you who is not currently allowed nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #46

You seem to disbelieve what the actuarial data about mental illness HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #49

And the numbers who are in the database nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #50

Jeebus...The issue is the push to ADD people to NCIS based on searching med records HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #53

Yes, to add those who rightfully should be nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #55

And you think ANY one with an SSRI script in their records should be added HereSince1628 Dec 2012 #56

That is not what serious people are talking about nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #58

Just because you let fear completely rule your life doesn't mean you have the right DisgustipatedinCA Dec 2012 #13

You have no idea what you're talking about. TPaine7 Dec 2012 #17

Yep, he shits all over DU with this RW Libertarian govt hating extremism. Repulsive. bettyellen Dec 2012 #34

Huh? ibegurpard Dec 2012 #19

yes samsingh Dec 2012 #26

Please read this and then consider more gun control riverbendviewgal Dec 2012 #28

I am interested how this will play out int he midterms Mojorabbit Dec 2012 #60

Wrong question, IMHO. OldEurope Dec 2012 #31

x2. Detailed OP and cited sources are worth reading. AnotherMcIntosh Dec 2012 #32

No, they are not. Ikonoklast Dec 2012 #57

Tl;dr exists for a reason. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #77

This is nonsensical drivel Spider Jerusalem Dec 2012 #37

I agree. Post 37 was nonsensical drivel. TPaine7 Dec 2012 #70

Wrong and wrong Spider Jerusalem Dec 2012 #71

Yes, your post 71 is wrong. And wrong. TPaine7 Dec 2012 #73

Still wrong Spider Jerusalem Dec 2012 #74

First of all your thread title and whole premise for this thread is bullshit, as has been pointed madinmaryland Dec 2012 #38

Yes. This has been another edition of simple answers for simpleton questions. nt Pholus Dec 2012 #41

What a monstrosity of special pleading, straw men and false equivalence intaglio Dec 2012 #43

Oh wait, you were serious. Let me laugh even harder. Prometheus_unbound Dec 2012 #51

Can mass slaughter coexist KT2000 Dec 2012 #52

OMG -- are you serious?! Guns have seriously warped you - please get help. MotherPetrie Dec 2012 #54

Was this your thesis at Glenn Beck U.? WinkyDink Dec 2012 #67

Oh goody. 99Forever Dec 2012 #72