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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]badtoworse
(5,957 posts)129. Terms like "sensible" gun laws get thrown around all the time on DU and elsewhere.
I'm just curious what's sensible to you. If don't want to suggest anything, that's fine.
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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