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Background Checks Will Lead to an Authoritarian Hellscape? (Original Post)
rdubwiley
May 2013
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zebonaut
(3,688 posts)1. "Law Abiders" should _welcome new laws to "Abide by".....
Because they are "law abiders"....
snappyturtle
(14,656 posts)2. I made it to 39 sec. that was all I could stomach. nt
jjewell
(618 posts)3. But, but...
Obama is for universal background checks, therefore I am bound by my constituency, and Constitutionally bound, to be against them...
Diclotican
(5,095 posts)4. rdubwiley
rdubwiley
Funny - other nations tend to have a background check when you buy a gun - without it end up in a dictatorship..... This is just stupid talk, from stupid people who know better - but who incite fear on a public who is fearfully and believing what they are been told...
Diclotican
I agree. Background checks are an obvious part of the solution.