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In reply to the discussion: What a novel idea! [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)153. and you believe everything
VPC makes up? Funny that you mention them.
Why would you believe someone with a license to sell guns?
http://fflgundealers.net/sugarmann-joshua-alan.html
That is VPC's address.
Don't believe it? Ask a local gun dealer to look up this FFL number.
1-54-000-01-8C-00725
This is my favorite quote of his
"One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year. We are."
-Josh Sugarmann, "The NRA is Right: But We Still Need to Ban Handguns," The Washington Monthly, June 1987.
"One tenet of the National Rifle Association's faith has always been that handgun controls do little to stop criminals from obtaining handguns. For once, the NRA is right and America's leading handgun control organization is wrong. Criminals don't buy guns in gun stores. That's why they're criminals. But it isn't criminals who are killing most of the 20,000 to 22,000 people who die from handguns each year. We are."
-Josh Sugarmann, "The NRA is Right: But We Still Need to Ban Handguns," The Washington Monthly, June 1987.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josh_Sugarmann
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This is very serious....never volunteer to give up a right because it feels good.
ileus
Aug 2014
#62
I think a good start might be civil dialog between gun owners and those who want gun control
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#3
You can think I'm "pro-control" if that makes you feel better, but you are wrong.
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#47
Rights cannot be given up. They exist in in the absence of written law. nt
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2014
#125
But you're OK when people defending their inherent rights are compared to ISIS and the Taliban.
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2014
#130
You've been given suggestions, but you didn't like them, and/or ignored them. N/T
beevul
Sep 2014
#143
"The NRA and white privilege helps ensure you keep those penitentiaries well stocked."
beevul
Sep 2014
#144
If you think I am a "gun control activist" then you have some serious problems ahead
Starboard Tack
Sep 2014
#135
I think you're someone who claims to want a discussion, then dodges inconvenient questions.
beevul
Sep 2014
#138
You claim you want a civil dialogue but then you immediately applaud a guy who calls others
Nuclear Unicorn
Sep 2014
#124
I think you are definitely right on 2A needing an updated interpretation.
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#15
"Lift 'er up!!! Git er done!!!!" Having nothing to do with your reply or the OP....
NYC_SKP
Aug 2014
#50
Seems to me it's been moving completely the opposite way to what you describe.
Starboard Tack
Sep 2014
#96
Most states simply went and adopted objective criteria and implemented the ONLY legal way for
shedevil69taz
Sep 2014
#105
I'm very familiar with product placement having worked in that industry for several years.
Starboard Tack
Sep 2014
#89
Good, because I never thought movies or games were the cause of violence
Starboard Tack
Sep 2014
#107
Many actors talk out of both sides of their mouths when it come to gun violence
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2014
#93
Try Renner's "Bourne Legacy" for glorification of guns and violence
friendly_iconoclast
Sep 2014
#101