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In reply to the discussion: Probably the best 2nd Amendment speech ever. [View all]upaloopa
(11,417 posts)26. It is about me. When people say they fought for your rights
they help perpetuate the myth that lets us go on and on fighting useless wars and killing our kids.
Many of us who were in the Vietnam war thought that we could teach people what these wars were really about but we learned that people like you want to hold on to you myths about glory and honor and fighting for rights. Yea it's about me and all the other vets whose lives are screwed up so you can have you myths.
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this macho shit about guns and wars is a mental problem and just maybe it is one of the mental issues that should be brought up when someone wznts to buy a new assult rifle.
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Allow me to provide some context in the form of a more complete presentation by him:
NYC_SKP
Jul 2013
#2
Your argument could be applied to the other nine amendments, it's not 1776 any more.
NYC_SKP
Jul 2013
#7
As a Vietnam Era vet and son of a combat wounded WWw2 Vet I would tell Aaron he is a delusional
Vietnameravet
Jul 2013
#59
"No war in your life time was fought for your rights. It's fought for to grow the wealth of the 1%."
KansDem
Jul 2013
#6
This isn't about you (and you are not the only one who fought in Viet Nam). He said HE fought for
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#23
The truth of the matter is that his inconvenience outweighs dead children.
Bonhomme Richard
Jul 2013
#20
Blithely ignoring that gun control works in England, Australia, Japan, etc. ... eom
Kolesar
Jul 2013
#54
Although you did not ask me, I think that the governmental policy of shipping jobs to foreign
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#28
DU is big on racism accusations, it's like a drug to juice up your "liberalism,"
Eleanors38
Jul 2013
#42
Sergeant Voice Crackle doesn't know that prosecutors and law enforcement want regulations on guns
Kolesar
Jul 2013
#52
Obivously I was using the figurative sense. Your literal sense post indicates you're the who's not.
MotherPetrie
Jul 2013
#81
good stuff, well laid out arguments supported by facts, and to the point. n/t
hansberrym
Jul 2013
#109