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In reply to the discussion: OK, ban the AR-15, by shape and color. I'm on board. [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)55. No, you've missed the point
a) society through the institution of representative government can and does enforce restrictions on all sorts of other things.
b) guns are not "anything else in society", they are specifically weapons designed for killing (try buying C4 plastic explosive sometime and see how far you get with that).
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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