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oldhippie

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30. If you get a law passed limiting all guns to one round per chamber .....

Reply to rgbecker (Reply #28)

Sat Jan 19, 2013, 11:53 AM

Jan 2013

.... absolutely nothing will change. You have to use the right terminology or your law is useless, or worse, worthy of mockery. If you don't know what you are talking about, be prepare to be corrected. We're all here to learn, right?

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No Sane Govt Allows Its Citizenry to Own Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMDs) [View all] Yavin4 Jan 2013 OP

This will never work because Jenoch Jan 2013 #1

My thoughts exactly. Travis_0004 Jan 2013 #26

I love you guys keeping everybody up to speed about the terminology. rgbecker Jan 2013 #28

When writing legislation or proposing action... bobclark86 Jan 2013 #29

If you get a law passed limiting all guns to one round per chamber ..... oldhippie Jan 2013 #30

Any herbalist knows how to make WMDs tama Jan 2013 #2

It must be that 2naSalit Jan 2013 #3

Food for thought sarisataka Jan 2013 #4

No matter what the great Lake Superior State University has to say... Yavin4 Jan 2013 #6

I find it is easier to win arguments sarisataka Jan 2013 #7

Whar weapon kills more people en masse at one time Yavin4 Jan 2013 #8

A dirty bomb by a large amount ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #13

No need to look it up sarisataka Jan 2013 #16

No sane government twice signs legislation allowing for the indefinite detention of its citizens Fire Walk With Me Jan 2013 #5

Bravo Fire Walk With Me! Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #9

What you are calling the norm is not ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #10

Okay. Guns should be restricted to 7 or 8 rounds. No one needs more than the minimum. Yavin4 Jan 2013 #11

Words have meaning, and they matter ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #14

The Sarin Gas Attack in the Subways of Japan Killed 13 People. The Newtown school shooter killed 26 Yavin4 Jan 2013 #15

Well said! hrmjustin Jan 2013 #17

The term has real meaning, feel free to continue to embarrass yourself and hurt your cause ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #18

You Do Whatever You Have To Do Yavin4 Jan 2013 #19

By your definition Jarhead1775 Jan 2013 #20

This message was self-deleted by its author seabeyond Jan 2013 #21

We found some degraded pre-Gulf war munitions, and some precursors Recursion Jan 2013 #24

The point was that by the OPs definition every AK-47 ..... oldhippie Jan 2013 #31

*facepalm* thanks Recursion Jan 2013 #33

Good catch... ProgressiveProfessor Jan 2013 #32

Nonsense. beevul Jan 2013 #25

Is a bolt action rifle a WMD? Travis_0004 Jan 2013 #27

"6 bullets in its chamber" guardian Jan 2013 #12

Are you Bashar al-Assad? friendly_iconoclast Jan 2013 #22

Seriously? Heimer Jan 2013 #23