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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:16 PM Original message |
Objecting to open carry: Equating 'moral harm' with intimidation |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:25 PM Response to Original message |
1. Robert Bork is an ignorant RW republican asshole who perpetrated the Saturday Night Massacre |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:28 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. That was the point (n/t) |
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TheWraith (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 01:59 AM Response to Reply #2 |
26. Bingo. And jpak doesn't get that he is on Bork's side. |
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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. So the open carriage of handguns isn't "morally harmful", then? |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. No - it is physically harmful - handguns are meant to kill humans |
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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:39 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. By that metric, it's physically harmful to drive a car or serve fatty foods. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:42 PM Response to Reply #7 |
9. No it is not - cars are transportation - fats are essential nutrients |
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NewMoonTherian (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 06:43 PM Response to Reply #9 |
22. And yet carrying them does not physically harm anyone. |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 07:11 PM Response to Reply #9 |
24. I've been carrying one for 15 years ... |
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DonP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 09:32 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. Bork agrees with you on this - again with the reading comprehension? |
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X_Digger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 09:41 PM Response to Reply #1 |
17. RIF - reading is fundamental..n/t |
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rl6214 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 02:29 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. Is this an illness |
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Callisto32 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 11:42 PM Response to Reply #1 |
25. WOOOOSH. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:29 PM Response to Original message |
3. "but if we aren’t adversely affected by it" - provoking fear is not a Constitutional right |
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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:36 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. Do you fear cars? They kill more Americans each year than guns do. |
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jpak (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
8. No - cars are transportation - not weapons designed specifically to kill humans |
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friendly_iconoclast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:45 PM Response to Reply #8 |
11. Cars are still deadlier than guns in the US, and there are more guns than cars here. |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:54 PM Response to Reply #8 |
14. A car is a two-ton plus bludgeon traveling at a couple of dozen miles per hour (or more) |
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PavePusher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 10:01 PM Response to Reply #8 |
18. I am still in far more danger from your car.... |
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speltwon (699 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 03:07 AM Response to Reply #6 |
19. Cars can be harmful even when operated properly |
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petronius (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
10. "Provoking fear" is an inaccurate description. If Person A is going about his lawful, |
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Katya Mullethov (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 09:19 PM Response to Reply #10 |
15. But .........they're sitting at ----MY---- lunch counter ! |
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YllwFvr (757 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:43 AM Response to Reply #15 |
27. got some balls dont they? |
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NewMoonTherian (512 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 06:46 PM Response to Reply #3 |
23. Certainly not. |
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YllwFvr (757 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:45 AM Response to Reply #23 |
28. antis seem to think |
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rrneck (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:47 PM Response to Original message |
12. If we could write legislation |
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Euromutt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Feb-19-11 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
13. As I noted earlier, there are TWO kinds of open carriers |
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YllwFvr (757 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-21-11 08:57 AM Response to Reply #13 |
29. Thank you |
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Bold Lib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-20-11 02:12 PM Response to Original message |
20. Wow, what a GREAT post! KandR n/t |
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