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Xithras

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21. Lol. It's not a prepared text.

Reply to upaloopa (Reply #15)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 09:08 PM

Dec 2012

I wrote that off the top of my head. I'd heard of the case years ago, and the only thing I had to look up was the actual name of the case and the year it went down (and my only source for that was Wikipedia). You know, some of us are sufficiently educated to do such things

And where the hell do you get off calling me a "tea party bozo" you effing newbie? I've been on DU almost as long as there has been a DU, and that bullshit comment was completely uncalled for.

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I get that many here want all guns registered, but please understand that it's constitutionally moot [View all] Xithras Dec 2012 OP

and if you are on the road with an unregistered car? or flying an unregestered small plane? n/t IllinoisBirdWatcher Dec 2012 #1

If you had it since before registration was required.. grandfathered.. X_Digger Dec 2012 #2

Neither car or aircraft registration is required in any state in the United States that I'm aware of Xithras Dec 2012 #5

It's hard to fit the car in your nightstand. nt Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #22

laws can be changed. spanone Dec 2012 #3

You're going to change the 5th Amendment? Xithras Dec 2012 #7

You'd avoid firearms registration rather than preventing the slaughter of innocent people? Squinch Dec 2012 #12

Will firearm registration prevent the slaughter RantinRavin Dec 2012 #16

You didn't answer my question. And nice straw man. Xithras Dec 2012 #17

And that's a pretty stupid law. I would imagine that revisiting it now, in the era of DNA testing, Squinch Dec 2012 #10

Well, I'd oppose that too Xithras Dec 2012 #20

It doesn't necessarily mean you'd have to register everyone's DNA. If you have committed a crime Squinch Dec 2012 #23

Are you a constitutional lawyer? MotherPetrie Dec 2012 #4

Don't need to be. The 7-1 decision was reached by constitutional lawyers Xithras Dec 2012 #8

By the same token, why could you be made to give DNA? The decision was an interpretation. Squinch Dec 2012 #11

Yeah? So what? I don't care. The right never lets shit like a Supreme Court showdown stop JanMichael Dec 2012 #6

Exactly! When Bowers v Hardwick was decided in 1986, ... ehrenfeucht games Dec 2012 #18

How is it that any idea that comes up you can upaloopa Dec 2012 #9

Spend a couple of years in the gungeon and you learn it. GreenStormCloud Dec 2012 #13

Common now no one just wrote that off the top upaloopa Dec 2012 #15

Whenever someone makes a good argument I save the references. GreenStormCloud Dec 2012 #19

Lol. It's not a prepared text. Xithras Dec 2012 #21

Me? Xithras Dec 2012 #14

Can we all agree that gasoline promotes and empowers DUI? libdem4life Dec 2012 #24