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In reply to the discussion: Gun bans and abortion bans - a remarkable Puritanical similarity [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)80. guns are WMDs and should be treated as such. Anything goes as Cole Porter wrote
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Gun bans and abortion bans - a remarkable Puritanical similarity [View all]
banned from Kos
Jan 2013
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the two don't equate at all. A woman's right is 1st amend. A gun takes that away
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#3
Please cite the words from the 1st supporting "A woman's right is 1st amend." Thanks
jody
Jan 2013
#5
ask Dr. Tiller who would love to respond to your question ...also ask the following ...
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#48
they can't speak for themselves as a gun took their 1st amendment away enmasse
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#65
Obviously not. And your fiction that firearms are "WMDs" is obviously a fiction.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#81
I thought you were off base there, but see you are looking at the intent and effects. Good.
freshwest
Jan 2013
#52
Thomas Jefferson said all men are created equal. What about Blacks and Women?
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#13
Never take more than three words to say "I don't know" and that was your correct answer to my
jody
Jan 2013
#21
I stand by what I said. Ask a person in Kansas about Dr. Tiller, a wonderful patriot who was
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#25
wrongo. Dr. Tiller's being silenced has everything to do with the 1st amendment
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#29
did you think this up all on your own, or is it the faxed talking point du jour?
DisgustipatedinCA
Jan 2013
#6
Guns are weapons of mass destruction. Anything is acceptable imho to rid the streets of WMDs
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#50
"WMDs"? Are you one of those, after the 9/11 attack by Saudis, thought that there were WMDs in Iraq
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#74
See. Even you get it. Just because someone says that there are "WMDs" to further their
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#79
guns are WMDs and should be treated as such. Anything goes as Cole Porter wrote
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#80
If honesty matters, it is wrong to say "anything goes." Firearms are not "WMDs."
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#94
yes they are, no matter how much you deny it. WMD=weapons, destruction, en masse=akaGuns
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#109
Actually, they got it from *me*; see these posts from April & May, 2012:
friendly_iconoclast
Jan 2013
#61
Both are constitutionally protected rights... so the Supreme Court seems them the same way.
davidn3600
Jan 2013
#12
"no one needs to hunt anymore with a grocery store within walking distance of anyone."
beevul
Jan 2013
#103
It's really too bad for gun enthusiasts that they have not more strongly stood up for other rights
Fumesucker
Jan 2013
#24
Funny, some have - and been yelling for years about lack of choices/freedoms
The Straight Story
Jan 2013
#34
Fumesucker you mix lots of things. I personally know thousands of pro-RKBA folks and all of them
jody
Jan 2013
#37
I speak & vote for myself. I help Democratic candidates campaign and I've had many LTTE published
jody
Jan 2013
#66
"Gun enthusiasts as a whole are now represented in the public mind by the NRA, ..." 1) No.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jan 2013
#78
bill outlawing guns in the street, it should named in Mr.Trayvon Martin's memory
graham4anything
Jan 2013
#110
Senator Feinstein said “If I could’ve gotten 51 votes in the Senate of the United States for an
jody
Jan 2013
#44
"We have banned civilian ownership of all fully automatic weapons" - No, we haven't.
beevul
Jan 2013
#105
Just bullfuckingshit. For you to equate the right of a woman to control her body,
MotherPetrie
Jan 2013
#35
conflating a medical procedure with a consumer decision is rather convenient
LanternWaste
Jan 2013
#82
"I am equating a woman who makes a private decision with a citizen who decides to own a gun"
MotherPetrie
Jan 2013
#88
Last time I checked, abortion was 100% legal in most countries with strict gun control,
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#72
Stunning...and this goes after all the false equivalence s we have seen
nadinbrzezinski
Jan 2013
#86