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global1

(25,272 posts)
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 02:55 AM Dec 2012

Remember When Bush & The Repugs Pushed Through The Patriot Act - They Told Us If You're Not A .....

terrorist - then you have nothing to worry about.

So why don't we use the same tact when discussing gun registration and background checks. If you are not a criminal - if you don't have a mental illness - you have nothing to worry about.

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Remember When Bush & The Repugs Pushed Through The Patriot Act - They Told Us If You're Not A ..... (Original Post) global1 Dec 2012 OP
Ban all guns as an item of terror and use the patriot act to do as wanted. Guns ARE WMDS! graham4anything Dec 2012 #1
You've got to be kidding... Gordonfan24 Dec 2012 #3
as i have said the same thing about 100 times now in the last month, no I am NOT kidding. graham4anything Dec 2012 #5
Guns aren't going to go away and the government won't try to take them either. Gordonfan24 Dec 2012 #7
You can take them out of the street though. They don't need to be taken away. graham4anything Dec 2012 #8
Sorry, Gordonfan24 Jan 2013 #9
That is brilliant!! We People Dec 2012 #2
I don't like it. Live and Learn Dec 2012 #4
if they don't want a diagnosis Lordquinton Dec 2012 #6
 

graham4anything

(11,464 posts)
5. as i have said the same thing about 100 times now in the last month, no I am NOT kidding.
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:07 AM
Dec 2012

19 kids died Oklahoma City
19 kids plus 1 died CT

and the old NRA stale lines are bullcrap
their "if only the first victim had a gun, this would have been avoided"

well, the first victim was a teacher, how prey tell, would it have been avoided here?

Guns stop my first amendment rights

time to get 100% out of the street.

keep your stinkin' filthy guns in your clammy fingers in your private home
but only federal,state,local law enforcement can have them in the street

once all guns are out of the street, then zero tolerance like teenage drinking.
everything and anyhting on the table

and as nobody but NRA junkies knows the difference between guns, no ban on just one type will stop this, so all have to be included

there is no reason, but the stockpiling of guns to overthrow the government, or someother loony conspiracy theory in people that think they are in mortal danger 24/7/365 by a boogie man out there, and those are the very Zimmerman like people that never should be within any distance of any gun whatsoever.

guns kill. They are WMD and guns have killed more every single year, than any terror act

And the racism in the NRA with to whom one needs to be afraid of
yeah, the shooters in these incidents almost always look the same.
And that says it all. It isn't the boogieman the NRA wants people to be paranoid about

and those NRA people are the scary people

the NRA needs to be reclassified as a terror org, and have their assets frozen

and Mike Bloomberg for Homeland Security director though if that interferes with his being able to give each candidate more money than the NRA gives their candidates, then no to that idea,
as I want him financing any/all who speak against guns in 2014, especially a primary pitting the pro-nra democrat vs. the anti-nra democrat, then we can sweep congress and get rid of these barbaric made to kill items that have no reason in either civilized society, or a liberal political board.

And i am fine with an eye in the sky protecting us.
Fluck libertarians, as they are rightwing extremists anyhow.

and don't spew the constitution at me-
Thomas Jefferson was a vile hypocrite-writing all men are created equal, excepting for blacks of course, and forgetting about 51% of the population, the woman.
While jefferson himself owned slaves and abused the female ones.

I prefer to idolize LBJ, who did what others only dreamed of, signing the historic civil, and voting and 50 other acts. Taking 100 years after Lincoln got the slaves freed.

If nothing else, make guns like cigarettes and change society.
The wild wild west of the 1850s is thank God and President Obama, gone.

 

Gordonfan24

(17 posts)
9. Sorry,
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 05:04 PM
Jan 2013

but I live in the real world. That of which you speak will NEVER happen. Do you have any idea how many cops would lose their jobs due to the lack of crime? LOL!

Live and Learn

(12,769 posts)
4. I don't like it.
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:49 AM
Dec 2012

I get what you were trying to say but equating criminal and mental illness is not a good idea at all. Even criminal is rather subjective based on our rather large prison population these days.

If you are going to arm the rest of the population and exclude that population aren't you keeping them from protecting themselves?

What about personality disorders? Should we exclude all of them too? Wouldn't that make some people not want to ascertain a diagnosis?


Lordquinton

(7,886 posts)
6. if they don't want a diagnosis
Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:30 AM
Dec 2012

then they can't have a gun. Of course that leads to doctors giving people passes on mental checks for a nice fee.

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