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Friday, October 6. 2017

Tucker on guns

Reason has little to do with the firearms issue. I'm sorry, cutie, but The Second Amendment isn't about hunting and shooting sports. It's about freedom.


Can we please make murder illegal? It might help, or do the guns kill people? Can't we just Do Something?!?!?



Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects at 13:44 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Scott Adams on Gun control

http://blog.dilbert.com/post/166112920486/the-worst-gun-control-arguments
#1 Jake on 2017-10-06 15:47 (Reply)
Shorter: guns are wicked scary and there is no legitimate reason for anyone anywhere to have one.
#2 steve walsh on 2017-10-06 16:58 (Reply)
Like virtually every other "well-meaning" gun-grabber/gun-(i.e., people-)"control" essentially-rabid-advocacy entity or group or, even, inDUHvidual in America (and, mostly, the rest of the World as well), the Brady Prog-Tards keep right on trying to sing that same, old, long-discredited tune: We need more laws/more restrictions/more INFRINGEMENTS on the law-abiding folks' inherent rights to firearms possession and usage...Sure, they talk about how they just want to help everyone; about how they don't wanna take away the "just-plain-folks'" guns - but, that's all it is...it's bullsh**; what they really want to do is just that, take 'em all away, whether "legally-owned" or not...
Sorry, that ain't gonna git it done..."expanded background-checks" are just more of the same old unworkable, ineffective, lying bullsh**...
Remember: When you insist upon always doing what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always gotten.
#3 J. S. Bridges on 2017-10-06 17:27 (Reply)
What the hype about expanding background checks is really about is a national gun registry. Almost every oppressive regime in history forced gun registration followed by gun confiscation. The best way to do this is to require registration in a way that doesn't alert the citizens/serfs that you intend to follow it with mandatory gun confiscation. Today, in theory anyway, once your background check is completed the personal and gun data is deleted for the specific reason that the law is not supposed to facilitate a gun registry. The alt-left doesn't like this and would love to get this law rewritten behind closed doors to create a permanent registry.
#3.1 OneGuy on 2017-10-07 10:51 (Reply)
Quite right. How do you confiscate them if you don't know who has them?
#3.1.1 steve walsh on 2017-10-07 18:32 (Reply)
Obama Administration study:

Citizens carrying guns for self-defense important crime deterrent

https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bannister/obama-study-concluded-firearms-used-self-defense-important-crime-deterrent
#4 Jim on 2017-10-06 20:02 (Reply)
After "You're smart...." I stopped listening.

That woman is a moron. Lies her a$$ off too.
#5 R Daneel on 2017-10-06 21:47 (Reply)
"Lies her a$$ off too."

She declared up front that she was a lawyer by training. But her use is apparently as a pretty face of gun control and not in the application of reason and thought on the subject at hand.
#5.1 JK Brown on 2017-10-07 09:19 (Reply)
Do not for one hot second think that TPTB are not keeping the NICS " background check" data permanently. Guess how they know where and when the LV murderer got all his, pretty much instantly?
#6 jesse bogan on 2017-10-08 17:54 (Reply)

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