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In reply to the discussion: Gun bans and abortion bans - a remarkable Puritanical similarity [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)84. There are many similarities, to be sure.
I'll add to your list that both anti groups invent their own facts and language (since facts and language don't support their case), both groups claim a majority (which polls say they're not), and both groups employ bullying tactics to silence opposition, there is no interest in serious discussion.
If Dems lose in '14 or '16, I'm laying that loss entirely at the feet of the anti-gun zealots. Just like the "legitimate rape" GOPers, they just couldn't keep their mouths shut.
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Gun bans and abortion bans - a remarkable Puritanical similarity [View all]
banned from Kos
Jan 2013
OP
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