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In reply to the discussion: OK, ban the AR-15, by shape and color. I'm on board. [View all]Indydem
(2,642 posts)54. You've missed the point.
You do not have the right to judge what I do or do not need.
I have a right, as a legal citizen who has never been convicted of a crime or had a mental illness, to purchase whatever legal firearm I so choose.
There is no restriction on whether or not I need it, nor should there be.
There is no such restriction on anything else in society, yet you feel you have a right to construct such a restriction out of whole cloth.
If society chooses to put in place a new paradigm, and such paradigm is ruled constitutional, then that is another issue.
However, I have a firm belief in law and providence that such a thing will never take place.
Your opinions on the matter not withstanding.
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So? Why can't we be on them like flypaper? Why can't we be dogging their every step?
calimary
Dec 2012
#69
Well, we don't have 800,000 cops on the street to subsidize the doughnut industry.
rrneck
Dec 2012
#16
Help me out. In what way "don't [you] support much of what NRA leadership does or says?"
morningfog
Dec 2012
#50
I have a multitude of reasons to have a firearms that are not related to self defense.
Indydem
Dec 2012
#30
I'm not concerned with the appearance of the gun. I'm concerned with what comes out of the barrel.
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#12
The only thing that makes an "assault weapon" effective as an assault weapon is
OneTenthofOnePercent
Dec 2012
#66