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In reply to the discussion: OK, ban the AR-15, by shape and color. I'm on board. [View all]Indydem
(2,642 posts)49. If it is balanced with civil liberties in mind, sure.
It's no worse than a national registry on gun owners.
We already restrict gun ownership based on mental illness, so expanding it to include non-judgmental mental illness seems a logical step.
However, I don't want such a list being used as a club on the mentally ill.
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So? Why can't we be on them like flypaper? Why can't we be dogging their every step?
calimary
Dec 2012
#69
Well, we don't have 800,000 cops on the street to subsidize the doughnut industry.
rrneck
Dec 2012
#16
Help me out. In what way "don't [you] support much of what NRA leadership does or says?"
morningfog
Dec 2012
#50
I have a multitude of reasons to have a firearms that are not related to self defense.
Indydem
Dec 2012
#30
I'm not concerned with the appearance of the gun. I'm concerned with what comes out of the barrel.
backscatter712
Dec 2012
#12
The only thing that makes an "assault weapon" effective as an assault weapon is
OneTenthofOnePercent
Dec 2012
#66