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In reply to the discussion: Mother Jones: "The NRA Surge: 99 Laws Rolling Back Gun Restrictions" [View all]Starboard Tack
(11,181 posts)53. Of course they can. It's about balance.
An individual has rights until the exercise of those rights is detrimental to society as a whole. That's what happened when we climbed down from the trees and gathered together. The group's rights must trump any individual rights, or the group ceases to exist.
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Mother Jones: "The NRA Surge: 99 Laws Rolling Back Gun Restrictions" [View all]
friendly_iconoclast
Oct 2012
OP
Not humor- fact. Violent crime and murder rates are down, per the FBI.
friendly_iconoclast
Oct 2012
#2
*crime rates* are falling, generally, which is of course, good. But the episodes of gun violence
villager
Oct 2012
#15
Substitute a quantitative argument, which you will lose, for a qualitative argument
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#23
Regardless of the cause, you do agree that there are fewer shootings, injuries and deaths, right?
hack89
Oct 2012
#10
some citizens are more equal than others. tell that to Tom Tomorrow and while you are it
Tuesday Afternoon
Oct 2012
#30
why do you care what delicate flowers do? trust me - we are just blowing in the wind.
Tuesday Afternoon
Oct 2012
#63
Congratulations, BongBong, you're down to 18 hidden posts in the last 90 dats.
aikoaiko
Oct 2012
#77
This was during the midterms , too bad some Democrats can't get over this
former-republican
Oct 2012
#22
" Liberalism is about expanding the rights of the people, not constricting them. "
Starboard Tack
Oct 2012
#44
If you study history, suffrage was considered detrimental at the time of the constitution.
Starboard Tack
Oct 2012
#67
Liberalism is always on firm footing when it seeks to EXPAND the rights of the individual.
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#52
There is no right that can be exercised by a collective that cannot also be exercised by an individu
Atypical Liberal
Oct 2012
#71
I'd take these articles more seriously if they weren't all predicated on: the NRA wants X,
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#24
Will someone PLEASE, in the name of all that is Holy, tell MJ to unfuck their site....
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#25
HA! Maybe they got too much objection to the article and put out a World-wide Hoo-Doo!nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#35