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In reply to the discussion: Let's do this one, too: subsistence hunting. [View all]Marrah_G
(28,581 posts)34. I don't believe there should be any means testing
Conventional hunting weapons are not the problem.
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Men have the right to make medical decisions for themselves with their health care providers.
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#22
The right protected by Roe is doctors practicing medicine without state interference, absent..
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#29
Some Constantly-Repeated Gun Militant Talking Points Going Around, As Well. (nt)
Paladin
Feb 2013
#23
Care to actually join the conversation rather than lobbing non-sequiturs from the sideline?
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#46
so is shooting on public AND private land.so all these poor peeps have their own ranches to hunt on?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#42
So you agree.. you don't have to justify exercising a right. Glad we got that out of the way.
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#61
Thanks for agreeing that means testing / demonstrating a 'need' to exercise a right is bad.
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#72
no, i'm insulting your non-logical morass of 'statements', not you personally.
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#71
*snort* I'm the one who's on topic.. despite you trying to drag it off course. n/t
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#73
You'll find that's about all that poster has - besides the use of "*snort*" as a reply.
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#77
involve as a necessary condition of consequence; "solving a problem is predicated on understanding"
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#59
how about just giving up instead? you look more foolish with every post!
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#70
did you also have a hunting license? or was that before they were required? you ate fox?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#86
what kinda gun did you hunt with? not everyone has 45 acres, for one thing
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#95
Depending on the season and game, anything from a Winchester Model 290 (squirrel, ground hog)..
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#97
so one holds 4 rounds, one holds 5, and the plinker holds 15? and you say 30 is the limit?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#98
well, there's your problem, right there! why not just make ammo free? like matches?
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#100
they also don't give a crap so much when shot, yet 6 to 10 rounds seeems to be reasonable
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#107
nope.James Paris Lee patented a box magazine, which held rounds stacked vertically,in 1879 and 1882
farminator3000
Feb 2013
#113
An AR-15 in 5.56 is underpowered for most deer, but great for feral hogs. Other AR-* designs, or
X_Digger
Feb 2013
#115
With the price of a hunting license, "subsistence hunters" are generally poachers.
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2013
#6
Thanks. In Washington, it's $67 for the license and $35 for the "discover (parking) pass" n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2013
#12
$25 in Texas. Figuring in costs, my deer goes for <$2lb. No more store-bought beef!
Eleanors38
Feb 2013
#106
I've never known anyone who shot 6 deer in one year. In Wa, you're limited to one. n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Feb 2013
#84
I ask b/c you said "exempting subsistence hunters from gun control legislation"
aikoaiko
Feb 2013
#90
I say I would rather limit the type of arms then try to distinguish between people*
jmg257
Feb 2013
#32
It's a tiresome NRA meme, at that: *I* own a 20 gauge shotgun, for crying out loud.
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#76
This seems to be a follow-up to the poll asking whether "Grandpa's duck gun" is part of the problem
slackmaster
Feb 2013
#88