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global1

(25,328 posts) Tue May 3, 2022, 03:35 PM May 2022

I Wonder What The Reaction Would Be Like If The Leaked Document Was About Guns.....

and gun owners right to own guns?

Just think of the furor over a leaked SCOTUS document about the rights to own guns instead of abortion rights.

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I Wonder What The Reaction Would Be Like If The Leaked Document Was About Guns..... (Original Post) global1 May 2022 OP

Depends on what the opinion was MiniMe May 2022 #1

What I Was Eluding To Is That It Would Be About Taking Rights Away From Gun Owners.... global1 May 2022 #2

If SC can use their current logic to overturn Roe then surely they need to revisit Second Amendment groundloop May 2022 #3

MiniMe

(21,731 posts)

1. Depends on what the opinion was

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2022, 03:39 PM

May 2022

If it was to support rednecks carrying guns, they say no problem. If it curtails the right to open carry or own guns, that's a problem. Not a problem for me, but it is to "them"

global1

(25,328 posts)

2. What I Was Eluding To Is That It Would Be About Taking Rights Away From Gun Owners....

Reply to MiniMe (Reply #1)

Tue May 3, 2022, 03:43 PM

May 2022

In the autocratic government - sans democracy - the government can't have the people own guns.

Think Putin Russia.

groundloop

(11,552 posts)

3. If SC can use their current logic to overturn Roe then surely they need to revisit Second Amendment

Reply to global1 (Original post)

Tue May 3, 2022, 03:45 PM

May 2022

.... and what the framers of it meant by "well regulated militia".

And yeah, right wingers would be rioting.

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