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2016 Postmortem

TheLibertarianMind

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3. I would like to contribute to the discussion.

Reply to Tom Rinaldo (Original post)

Fri Jan 11, 2013, 12:24 AM

Jan 2013

If one chooses voluntarily to be a conscientious objector to keeping arms, or the militia/standing army, one has that right.

If one chooses voluntarily to be a conscientious objector to the militia, and still keep and bear arms, one has that right as well.

If objection is made to the type of arms the militia uses, one may exhaust every means of persuasion. If one uses coercion(threat of violence) to limit the arms of the militia that is an infringement.

I would love to disscuss means to curb violence. That being said I will hold firm to the non-agression principle.

FWIW Please no ad-hominem attacks, I'm not Alex Jones, or some Billy Badass.

-TheLibertarianMind

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I posted this nearly a month ago, is America ready to discuss the paranoid Right & their guns yet? [View all] Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 OP

I didn't see this one earlier, but have tried to get this conversation going. It leads back to the freshwest Jan 2013 #1

I was glad to see Jon Stewart comment directly on this. Alex Jones is the tip of the iceberg. Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #2

I would like to contribute to the discussion. TheLibertarianMind Jan 2013 #3

Bullets are also an infringement when aimed at ones body. Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #6

I don't know about Anerica...but hopefully America is. Drunken Irishman Jan 2013 #4

Details, details. No flying cars yet - but personal jet packs are rumored for Jan 2014! lol. n/t Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #5

Case in point - from a DU LBN Forum thread: Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #7

America's ability to absorb substantial levels of violence is astonishingly high. grantcart Jan 2013 #8

I know the gun industry has an obvious vested interest Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #9

well a strange set of circumstances have swung our way: grantcart Jan 2013 #10

I agree. Republicans in the North East and Mid West become more vulnerable Tom Rinaldo Jan 2013 #11