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delrem

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5. The problem is Billy the Kid, not his six-gun.

Reply to Old Crow (Reply #4)

Mon Aug 31, 2015, 03:40 AM

Aug 2015

This isn't to say that in a culture that reveres Billy the Kid for the violence that he exemplifies, an absolutely unregulated free market in guns isn't part of the problem!

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CNN: Ban guns, end shootings? How evidence stacks up around the world [View all] villager Aug 2015 OP

Justmoreofthesamestupidfeignedincredulity... pipoman Aug 2015 #1

Guns are just the weapon used. delrem Aug 2015 #2

Not sure if you're suggesting that guns aren't the problem or not. Old Crow Aug 2015 #4

The problem is Billy the Kid, not his six-gun. delrem Aug 2015 #5

I would rather be confronted U of M Dem Sep 2015 #17

The problem is that Billy the kid can get a gun Doctor_J Sep 2015 #19

Almost unregulated gun market is obviously *part* of the culture of violence. delrem Sep 2015 #23

Exactly. Though guns have their own "Climate Deniers," who -- like their weather-borne brethren villager Sep 2015 #25

Handguns and assault weapons are not guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment. Live and Learn Aug 2015 #3

Actually, the RKBA IS guaranteed by the Second Amendment... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #8

Militias are no longer needed awoke_in_2003 Sep 2015 #13

Whether or not they are needed doesn't impact the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #14

The 2A protects an individual right hack89 Sep 2015 #15

Handguns are. Assault weapons are not. hack89 Aug 2015 #12

Per Wiki, you cited the wrong case: Live and Learn Sep 2015 #18

Heller specifically states you have a right to own a handgun for self defense hack89 Sep 2015 #21

How is that moveable Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #29

Heller was rendered by the same court that gave us citizens United. If you think Doctor_J Sep 2015 #20

That court also gave us marriage equality hack89 Sep 2015 #22

This begs the question of whether the US is an "advanced" country Recursion Aug 2015 #6

Fuck the NRA blood letters and the politicians that ride with them. Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #7

...And the horse you rode in on! Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #9

It is a gift. And a useful gift, far more than any gun. Jealous? Fred Sanders Aug 2015 #10

Of the horse? No. Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #11

well worth the read. Gun policy like everything else is not settled by argument and evidence but by yurbud Sep 2015 #16

K&R TexasTowelie Sep 2015 #24

The money quote: truebluegreen Sep 2015 #26

But again, you can't trouble Climate Deniers with facts villager Sep 2015 #27

^^This^^ salib Sep 2015 #28