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In reply to the discussion: At Least Four People Killed in Shooting at Kansas Factory, Police Said [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)72. Follow the train of thought in the thread.
You are the one who said it wasn't right to take any constitutional rights away. And then you go on to say owning a gun is constitutionally protected while living is not.
OK, you did say "Nor do I"...but your comments have left me confused...as you seem to be protecting the constitutional right to own a gun over the humans lives lost by guns.
How does that sound to someone who is not defending guns?
Except when it doesn't, like in the case of constitutionally protected rights.
so before it was constitutionally prohibited, it was a "right" to own a slave. Did that make it OK for society to have slaves...just because the constitution didn't prohibit it?
It would be in your interest to find a way to fix this, so the rest of society would quit trying to find a way for you. But you think gun owners should leave it to people who want fewer guns to fix it? That really doesn't even make any sense at all. This is kind of like trying to prove a negative. We all know that few guns will and does result in fewer gun deaths. The statistics show that. So I think maybe it's time gun owners got involved in trying to help society fix it's problem, instead of fighting tooth and nail against any gun laws.You and your gun control pushing colleagues have a long ways to go to prove that reducing gun deaths cannot be done any other way.
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At Least Four People Killed in Shooting at Kansas Factory, Police Said [View all]
tabasco
Feb 2016
OP
If we will just keep cutting social services - shrinking government - all this...
SoLeftIAmRight
Feb 2016
#1
And your reasonable approach should be rewarded by us anti gun folks, not attacked.
randys1
Feb 2016
#53
I have an AR-10 chambered in .308 for deer hunting, and I can convert it to .223 by changing the
GGJohn
Feb 2016
#57
Neither you nor society are harmed by someone *legally* carrying a gun in your vicinity. Period.
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2016
#88
Me and my society are harmed by people legally carring guns who still should not have one every day.
Cavallo
Mar 2016
#92
My good friend Kim Layfield died in the Racer Cafe Shooting in Seattle 3 years ago.
Cavallo
Mar 2016
#101
Your opinion is no more valid than those of Suzanna Hupp or John D. Green's:
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2016
#102
No more and no less weird than glamorized swimsuits photo spreads issues in a sports magazine
LanternWaste
Feb 2016
#35
Why the dodge? It's the obvious question resulting from you apparent assertion...
Marengo
Feb 2016
#61
Which means you DO have a problem with some guns. That's a deal breaker.
passiveporcupine
Mar 2016
#82
Please show me where the anti gun supporters have ever gotten everything
passiveporcupine
Mar 2016
#90
there is really no point in continuing this because on this one issue we disagree
passiveporcupine
Mar 2016
#95
Look how long it took for the anti-cig thinking to take hold. This too will take hold.
riversedge
Feb 2016
#27