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Gun Control & RKBA

Comatose Sphagetti

(836 posts)

3. "For the second point, no one will ever take America's guns away."

Reply to TexasPaganDem (Original post)

Mon Dec 24, 2012, 12:22 PM

Dec 2012

With all respect, I grow weary of the "it'll never happen" crowd because it shuts down any rational discourse for or against before it is even started.

It can be done. It wouldn't be liked and there would be tons of kicking and screaming, but it can be done. Other democracies have done it.

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Discussion between me and my conservative, gun collecting father [View all] TexasPaganDem Dec 2012 OP

I don't think you will find much support for that. clffrdjk Dec 2012 #1

Responses: GreenStormCloud Dec 2012 #2

Responses: discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2012 #4

"For the second point, no one will ever take America's guns away." Comatose Sphagetti Dec 2012 #3

good one! discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2012 #5

Other democracies do not have our gun culture or the 2nd Amendment. ... spin Dec 2012 #6

It's already fractious. Comatose Sphagetti Dec 2012 #7

So what you wish is that honest citizens to have single shot firearms ... spin Dec 2012 #8

single shot firearms only Comatose Sphagetti Dec 2012 #10

a .25 is a WMD? gejohnston Dec 2012 #11

I honk he's already comatose rl6214 Dec 2012 #14

With all respect Comatose Sphagetti Dec 2012 #17

I never have gejohnston Dec 2012 #19

Now "Everyone reading these words is a criminal." ... spin Dec 2012 #12

Thank you, my friend. Comatose Sphagetti Dec 2012 #18

And only being allowed to own/print one kind of book... beevul Dec 2012 #9

How's that printing Press working? Eleanors38 Dec 2012 #24

Mexico, Haiti, and Guatemala all enshrine the right to bear arms in their constitutions. Tuesday Afternoon Dec 2012 #15

It is my opinion that a lot of the firearms smuggled from our nation into Mexico ... spin Dec 2012 #16

Every one of those ideas is just nucking futs and would never be agreed to rl6214 Dec 2012 #13

So, what would your recommendation be? TexasPaganDem Dec 2012 #20

dealing with the root problems gejohnston Dec 2012 #21

Nothing. HALO141 Dec 2012 #22

I agree DookieMonster Dec 2012 #23