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In reply to the discussion: Republicans Allow Potential Terrorist Buy Guns Legally?!?! [View all]CajunBlazer
(5,648 posts)15. I didn't know the NRA is a civil rights organization.
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Can't argue with 'em on this point. It's in the NRA book of answers for Good Guys w/Guns
Photographer
Dec 2015
#28
I am not willing to give up our right to be safe in our environments provided.....
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#14
You're right, it can't stop terrorists who legally buy their AR-15 and high capacity magazines...
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#44
I find it interesting that very progessives Senators voted for the bill and....
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#5
Again, the argument from authority. This is wrong, and it remains wrong *whoever* approves of it
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#22
Was FDR's approval of the internment of Americans of Japanese descent also acceptable to you?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#23
Due process: ever hear of it? If these people are dangerous, then why are they not in jail?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#63
The NRA are protectors of one interperation of the 2nd Ammendment to the Constitution...
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#49
You can adopt any personal interpretation of the 2A (or anything else) that you wish.
branford
Dec 2015
#50
The Supreme Court has already ruled that the people, through their government,....
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#10
Don't display your ignorance - The law banning assault weapons expired in 2004
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#25
Politicians from both political parties are hypocrites and pander to their constituencies.
branford
Dec 2015
#32
When I posted the OP, I thought it would be fairly non controversial. I forgot about the gun lobby
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#45
I also support the positions of President Obama, Mazie Hirono, Al Franken, Elizabeth Warren,......
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#65
Still arguing personalities rather than the merits of the issue. Also, you're *still* not...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#72
Congratulations-combining the 'argument from authority' and associational fallacies is a rare feat.
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#70
Nope, you're basically telling us "*These* people support this, therefore you're wrong"...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#73
Repeatedly telling us who likes this and who doesn't as if it mattered is a diversion...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#78
Most of us learned about the difference between 'plagarism' and 'citation' in high school
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#83
Sorry, my appoligies, I didn't see the link you provide the first time - my bad.
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#88
*cough,cough*...compurgation...ahem. Sometimes, otherwise good people are wrong
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#95
"(Y)ou had to go find someone else's thoughts to..." What if those thoughts are also *my* thoughts?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#94
And you're still siding with those that would deny due process because............GUNS!!!!
GGJohn
Dec 2015
#74
It was brilliant political tactic - it made those Republicans Senators look like fools
CajunBlazer
Dec 2015
#89
I don't care about Republican hypocrisy. I already expect it, and don't vote Republican.
branford
Dec 2015
#93