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In reply to the discussion: Guns are the mortal enemies of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and if that is not [View all]Response to The Straight Story (Reply #40)
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Guns are the mortal enemies of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, and if that is not [View all]
Fred Sanders
May 2014
OP
Silly deflection. Emotion makes us human. Most of us. Play the video, then re-comment.
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#2
Cause and effect are not a gunlover's strong suits. I blame lead poisoning and the poison
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#10
I got a whole lot more than that, sir/madame, as you can see from the thread.
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#87
So, you agree with Joe the Plumber that our dead kids don't trump your right to play with your toys?
baldguy
May 2014
#7
So, the misdeeds of a tiny minority should be the basis for denying civil rights to millions...
badtoworse
May 2014
#14
Yes, so you do agree the tree of liberty needs regular watering....with innocent blood.
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#18
People retain their rights until it's demonstrated they should not have them.
badtoworse
May 2014
#89
Will citizens then be required to paper thier bodies with signs they are not responsible gun owners?
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#97
i didn't make any specific proposals and i don't see how that burden is on me.
unblock
May 2014
#128
Terms like "sensible" gun laws get thrown around all the time on DU and elsewhere.
badtoworse
May 2014
#129
You know exactly what they are, and if you do not then you do not belong in this
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#130
Seriously? I see a broad spectrum of opinion on what is sensible gun control
badtoworse
May 2014
#131
That makes perfect sense unless you consider movements like the French Resistance.
Gravitycollapse
May 2014
#9
The French Revolution took 70 years to play out, there WAS a tyranny, not a democratic government...
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#100
I'm going to give you a minute to go research the French Resistance and then get back to me.
Gravitycollapse
May 2014
#115
So being certified insane is the only restriction on purchase? Good to know......
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#12
He was seeing a mental health professional for counseling. If anyone was going to commit him
stevenleser
May 2014
#95
For real? Now you want to compare actual numbers of dead innocents, the thousands a year as
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#16
More guns in America than people, at some point saturation is reached and comparisons
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#120
"Why wasn't something done? It's outrageous" It is, and everytime a gunner shithead says
alcibiades_mystery
May 2014
#19
Let's have a party, everyone! Gunners are perhaps maybe amenable to discussing UBC! Well, maybe.
alcibiades_mystery
May 2014
#82
To describe it, no; but to make progress in dealing with the issue, it would help a lot.
badtoworse
May 2014
#63
Like racists and other delusional extremists, gun nut shitheads will never give an inch
alcibiades_mystery
May 2014
#66
As deserving as it was, I didn't alert on your post. I just thought it was infantile.
badtoworse
May 2014
#70
I'm not understanding how an inanimate object can be the enemy of anything.
Llewlladdwr
May 2014
#25
So guns should be allowed to proliferate unopposed because doing so is bigotry?
Major Nikon
May 2014
#41
The simple folk who love these weapons also think atomic bombs are inaminate and therefore harmless,
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#85
What evidence did this guy provide to anybody reguarding using these guns for hunting? (nt)
stone space
May 2014
#32
If guns are the mortal enemies of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness...
Dr. Strange
May 2014
#64
The thread has plenty of answers to that question, police have always had guns, they are registered
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#98
Why does anyone need a Kalashnikv assault rifle for in America? Not because of
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#111
Some people just can't accept that not everyone is in lockstep with their view
NutmegYankee
May 2014
#108
For far too many, not all, firearms have become a fetish, the dictionary defintion. And they know it
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#88
You forgot the fourth type, the type that understand using 300 year old wording that ignores the
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#107
Too bad for you that *all* of the Supremes think there's an individual right
friendly_iconoclast
May 2014
#122
This keyboard warrior seems to draw a lot of flak....and individual rights is a general concept not
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#123
It's *not* a "special right", it's part and parcel of the Bill of Rights
friendly_iconoclast
May 2014
#124
My point is that there are a lot of Constitution protected individual rights, the dissents in
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#125
America "exploited" 9/11 using emotional arguements to launch 2 wars, so that type of emotion
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#106
The parallel is that there is no parallel. The emotions clearly exploited by America and the media
Fred Sanders
May 2014
#112
We're on the same side on this issue, but I dont think anything will happen in the next 5 yrs or so.
stevenleser
May 2014
#94