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In reply to the discussion: (DC) Mayor Gray protests a billboard advertising gun-safety classes [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)44. Oh but they are
Look up the bill of rights.
It doesn't say "all these rights are sacrosanct except the 2nd which really doesn't count, we put it there on a goof".
All our rights are equally valid.
So gun rights are a part of civil rights.
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Well today a paper target, tomorrow a human...all target shooting is death spewer practice.
ileus
Aug 2012
#2
You know eventually they will look upon it as they do swaztikas and smoking in public
rl6214
Aug 2012
#32
I understand how ads from gun lobbying associations that represents manufacturers and others who
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#5
Of course safety is beneficial especially if they emphasize results of poor handling, toting,
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#9
I'm assuming you have never been to a NRA gun safety class, so how do you know what they are like?
Travis_0004
Aug 2012
#14
Ask someone who has worked with an organization with a PAC. They are separate on paper only.
Hoyt
Aug 2012
#21
When my stepson and nephew attended a hunter safety course, the instructor was a NRA member
Kaleva
Aug 2012
#27
Perhaps gun owners would be less anti-democrat if gun bans weren't mostly proposed by democrats
4th law of robotics
Aug 2012
#26
If an uber-religious town bans sex-ed, planned parenthood, all forms of contraception and the like,
4th law of robotics
Aug 2012
#16
It's no surprise to see a DC mayor reacting negatively to something that might
petronius
Aug 2012
#20
Mayor Vincent Gray hates guns so much he'd rather not support gun safety classes.
aikoaiko
Aug 2012
#39
Funny how "Abstinence-only" gets supported when guns are involved...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2012
#48