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when I was eight years old. No one bought them, sold them, and most didn't know they were legal until the IRS (before the ATF was created) announced that you could pick up the registration forms at the local post office to register them and any previously unregistered NFA firearms (a short amnesty period after the Gun Control Act was passed).
IIRC, some people in my town misread the newspaper and brought their deer rifles to register them at the PO.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Firearms_Act
body in order for her to receive medical care she needs. 
That has got to be one of the most offensive analogies I've ever seen posted down here, and given the pro-NRA right-wing tenor of the joint that's saying something. 
Sig line nails it again:
her body invaded in order to receive the medical care she needs and sitting in a classroom for two hours listening to someone talk about anger management so they can keep feeding bullets into their precious little popgun: that won't fly for long on a progressive discussion board, sport. But you keep at it.
Bobo who likes to play with popguns being made to sit in a class for two hours to listen to someone talk about anger management. It's an offensive, sexist analogy, and the fact that you've got away with it for so long on DU - largely by flying under the radar down here in the Gungeon where such right-wing bilge is openly tolerated - doesn't make it any less offensive or sexist.
But you keep right on with it: such things tend to come around full circle in the end, as your pals "Jody" and "rDigital" could no doubt tell you. 
"While you're doing that, I'll be learning Linear B..."
Laughable stuff.
Funny stuff.
stating that you think an unnecessary invasive procedure in a woman's body is the exact same thing as requiring some trigger-happy Gump to sit in a class for two hours of anger management because he likes to stockpile ammunition for his PRD? 
In other words, why don't you try that phony, sexist analogy between anti-choicers in the abortion debate and folks who believe that sensible gun legislation and regulation needs to come to America out up in General Discussion? Or in the feminists group?
Well, we know why, don't we? 
Wait for it...wait for it...
that offensive, sexist analogy up in GD or the feminists forum, just as I predicted above.
In other words, you don't have the courage of your convictions, knowing full well how such an OP would be received by the vast majority of DU.
Quod erat demonstrandum
Curious, that. But uniquely your credibility problem, not mine. Which why this thread is *Bookmarked* for future reference.
sexist analogies "for years" - something he's obviously proud of - two are to the same thread and the other one is to a DU2 OP he authored in 2011. Further, all were posted in the Gungeon, not up in GD or any of the other big forums where the replier knows such offensive, sexist analogies and comparisons - invading a woman's body with an unnecessary invasive procedure in order to receive medical care she needs is the exact same thing as an anger management class for folks who like to stockpile ammunition - would receive a rather chillier reception than they do down here in this NRA-smitten joint.
Contemptible stuff. 
or the feminists group making the offensive analogy that says an invasive procedure compelled unnecessarily on a woman's body in order to get the medical care she needs is the exact same thing as some Bobo with a popgun being made to sit in a two hour anger management class because he wants to stockpile ammo in his parent's basement.
Until then, all the rest of this jazz is just meaningless huff n' puff.
Go ahead: Stand. Behind. Your. Stated. Convictions.
Such episodes of shrinking from standing up for one's supposed beliefs as you have conceded to here hurts your credibility, not mine.
But, then, you are well aware that the vast majority of DU'ers don't care for NRA talking points and gun lobby "blather" in which you are well versed - as you are quite aware.
Such episodes of shrinking from standing up for one's supposed beliefs as you have conceded to here hurts your credibility, not mine.
But, then, you are well aware that the vast majority of DU'ers don't care for NRA talking points and gun lobby "blather" in which you are well versed - as you are quite aware.
Sorry: attempting to change the subject by posting some non-responsive silliness simply isn't gonna work.
as it applies just as much to you as it did to the person to whom I responded:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=104730
'protecting' society from those sketchy gun nuts...
For that matter, so does a response further down that thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1172&pid=104733
shells when a guy ambles up to the counter and says "got anything in today?" or words to that effect. The counter guy tells him they'd just unloaded a case of .223 and the guy says "I'll take it all." This lead to an argument by another guy ahead of me in line that said he'd like a shot (no pun intended) at some of that caliber of ammo, and he was there first.
They sorted it out but when I got up there I asked the employee helping me about it, and he said the first guy comes in every single day and asks if they got anything "in," and will usually buy all of it if it is either (1) handgun ammunition, (2) ammunition in calibers that loads "assault weapons," i.e., .223, .308, 7.62, etc, or (3) .22 ammo. On that third the management of the joint had had to limit him because he'd literally buy every single brick of the stuff if they'd let him and no other customers would then be able to get any. But they didn't want to limit him on the other stuff because he'd been a customer there for decades (this is a mom 'n pop gun store, not a chain or Wal Mart).
And then he proceeded to tell me they didn't have the shells I was looking for, #3 buckshot, totally sold out. Never in my life have I been told a place was out of shotgun shells. Unreal.
In any event, my question is two-fold: #1. Where are all these gumps getting the money to literally buy gun shops out of ammo? That stuff isn't cheap, and the rank n' file of the "RKBA enthusiast" movement are usually poorly-educated folks with marginal employment potential/skills, the folks profiled in Thomas Frank's "What's the Matter with Kansas?" and #2. what in the world do these panic-buyers of ammunition think is going to happen in the future? The government's going to shut down Federal, Winchester, Hornady, and the like? Or nationalize them and turn them to military/LEO production only?
The irony is, this panic-buying by our "RKBA enthusiasts" - besides being idiotic and irrational - is only hurting genuine law-abiding gun owners who can't get varmint hunting or .22 plinking rounds, or even 20 gauge shotgun shells, for crying out loud, because they're in the grip of right-wing paranoia. It irritates the hell out of the rest of us legitimate gun owners who own them and use them, but haven't made a fetish out of a piece of metal and polymer like the NRA talking points brigade mentioned in my sig line have. What gives?
or suggested as sensible gun legislation, policy, or codes would affect hunters, sports shooters, or even the guy who likes to wander through the woods plinking around at any small game that moves or any stray soup can that doesn't all that much - you simply prove my point: the group of "enthusiasts" such legislation would affect are probably most in need of having their dubious little hobby more closely monitored and regulated by public policy.
The group my proposals would affect would be those who like to strut about town with a pistol perched in their pants; those who like to fantasize they're free-lance Special Ops agents and thus feel the (bogus) need to own/stockpile military-grade weaponry like the AR-15 all the while yearning and dreaming of a Red Dawn-style scenario unfolding around them; the stalker or abusive spouse or SO; the white supremacists longing for a return to the days of Jim Crow; the alienated loners with buried rage against a society they perceive as having done them "wrong" by not giving them the public attention they think is their due; that loner's philosophical twin, the Angry White Male suburbanite who wakes up every day determined to do everything he can to keep "them" out of his neighborhoods and the children of "them" out of his kid's schools (aka George Zimmerman); the homophobic religious right crowd that is praying for an apocalypse so they can go on shooting sprees against "sinners" and "degenerates" and everyone else who doesn't fit their fanatical definition of the holy and godly; and the seriously mentally ill who need help, not more firepower.**
That group is what makes up the bulk of our "RKBA enthusiasts," and it is their lobbying for almost non-existent and extremely weak gun laws in the United States coupled with mass support of the NRA that has directly led to such horrors as occurred at Sandy Hook, to Gabby Giffords, at Aurora, I could go on and on and on and on with the all-too-long list of massacres and shootings that have long plagued this country.
It is not "Big-time pushback": it is irrational, paranoid nuttery plain and simple to hoard ammunition, stockpile weapons, and flock to gun shows like groupies to a rock concert.
So in the end, your reply above only confirms the need for a nationwide law modeled on New York's SAFE Act, or just an out-and-out adoption of the Canadian/Australian/Western European model of gun regulation.
I know, I know: you're going to take a good chunk of your next reply to squawk about how "it's never gonna happen!!!!11" But oddly enough, for a group supposedly so confident that no progressive/liberal legislation on guns is going to pass, our "pro gun progressives"* sure do spend a good deal of time on this Democratic discussion board gnashing their teeth over even the possibilities of it. Which is very telling.
In any event, I answered in good faith a question you posed, and, like so many of your pals are wont to do, you merely used it as a platform to further pimp for NRA propaganda. It's good to be reminded that about all we got down here is one-note wonders among our "RKBA enthusiasts." And the tune sung is uniformly the one whistled by Wayne LaPierre and the rest of the right-wing gun lobby.
*( ; "Sic"; & etc. )
**(That's quite a crowd our "RKBA enthusiasts" roam around in the same ideological playpen with, ain't it my folks? See sig line.)
what Martin Luther King Jr. called the "arc of history" that "bends toward justice," while yours is the agenda of the NRA, the gun lobby, and the reactionary right-wing.
My "war" is the war of the Freedom Marchers who helped liberate the Jim Crow South, and stood for equality; your "war" is the war of Richard Nixon's "southern strategy," re-packaged and re-cloaked in the phony, hateful NRA garb of "RKBA" and "pro gun" when what it really is is the same old racist blather based on fear of "the other."
My "war" is the war of JFK's New Frontier and LBJ's Great Society, always expanding rights and working to improve the "general welfare" of all of America's citizens; your "war" is George Wallace's "standing in the schoolhouse door," and Lester Maddox's handing out ax handles for "self defense" and "RKBA" against African Americans who wanted to patronize his restaurant (Maddox used the same bogus rhetoric of the modern NRA in his rants: no surprise there! )
But most of all, my "war" is the war of tens of millions of genuine progressives and liberals who share my mainstream beliefs on the need for sensible gun legislation and policy, the same majority that put President Obama in the White House TWICE, much to the anger and hatred of your NRA pals; your "war" is conducted in the same voice and with the same talking points as Wayne LaPierre, George Zimmerman, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Sarah Palin, and all the other gun lobby, pro-NRA shills & sycophants.
And here's the real kicker, sport: my side is winning; yours is losing. America is turning Blue. Better get used to it.
"could you in the future please condense your writing? Thanx"
If your attention span is that short and/or your reading abilities that strained by a thoughtful reply on DU, perhaps you should find another online diversion to amuse and entertain you. This one seems to be too much heavy lifting for the 'ole brain cells you got kicking around up there. 
when they encounter said truth and facts. And extremely limited attention span problems to boot. Funny stuff, as always.
See 'yah.
sycophants: that's what drives the rage, the defensiveness, the rank false analogies, the personal attacks, the dishonest debating tactics & techniques, the endless logical fallacies, and the sputtering regurgitation of Wayne LaPierre rants and NRA propaganda.
The vast majority of DU'ers agree with my position on sensible gun legislation, not yours; the vast majority of Democrats agree with the vast majority of DU'ers position regarding same; and the majority of Americans as a whole agree with us, not you, and not the tiny coterie of "pro gun progressives"* who routinely spew NRA talking points all over this discussion board.
The future is with our side, not yours: America is turning Blue. Better get used to it.
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sycophants: that's what drives the rage, the defensiveness, the rank false analogies, the personal attacks, the dishonest debating tactics & techniques, the endless logical fallacies, and the sputtering regurgitation of Wayne LaPierre rants and NRA propaganda.
The vast majority of DU'ers agree with my position on sensible gun legislation, not yours; the vast majority of Democrats agree with the vast majority of DU'ers position regarding same; and the majority of Americans as a whole agree with us, not you, and not the tiny coterie of "pro gun progressives"* who routinely spew NRA talking points all over this discussion board.
The future is with our side, not yours: America is turning Blue. Better get used to it.
*( )
Since the replier obvious didn't read it the first go round: another crack at it. I'm generous like that.
Read slower, friendly! Or better, friendly! Or both! 
on DU, yet?
Get back with me when you're willing to stand behind your convictions and post an OP in GD
or the feminists group making the offensive analogy that says an invasive procedure compelled unnecessarily on a woman's body in order to get the medical care she needs is the exact same thing as some Bobo with a popgun being made to sit in a two hour anger management class because he wants to stockpile ammo in his parent's basement.
Until then, all the rest of this jazz is just meaningless huff n' puff.
Go ahead: Stand. Behind. Your. Stated. Convictions.
Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/1172113546#post32
How about it? 
Or is it a matter of...
Inquiring minds want to know! 
to a sufficient level to post a pro-NRA talking point in General Discussion or the Feminists forum equating a male gun owner sitting in a two hour anger management class with a woman being vaginally probed against her will in order to get the health care she needs.
Scarcely surprised, as you already know the (justified) anger such a ridiculous analogy would stir in the actual progressive and liberal parts of DU, as opposed to this right-wing pro-NRA talking points pit you and your pro-NRA pals have going on down here.
Looks like I was correct above: you're
Laughable stuff.
a pro-NRA talking point in General Discussion or the Feminists forum equating a male gun owner sitting in a two hour anger management class with a woman being vaginally probed against her will in order to get the health care she needs.
As that phony, offensive claim (that you have posted down here in the Gungeon repeatedly) would be seen as the sexist, misogynistic, pro-gun lobby crap it is and likely be hidden, you have not yet worked up the bravado to stand behind your own stated convictions. That's all I or anyone else examining the matter "sees," and you well know it.
Textbook stuff.
But nice ploy at continuing to try to change the subject and evade the issue of your unwillingness to post your offensive pro-NRA talking points regarding this matter up in GD or over in the Feminists forum.
