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I think this one made me sicker than most of the ones I've seen
NMDemDist2
(49,313 posts)you'll be called a troll and worse. or do you just like stirring the pot?
RockaFowler
(7,429 posts)I'm not stirring the pot. This is what some people on Facebook and elsewhere actually believe. They want to equate Civil Rights and guns. Not understanding the thinking there . . .
zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)The call themselves something like "The oldest Civil Rights Organization". Technically it's "true". That is if you accept that gun ownership in some form is a "right". And strangely, they are connected to a time when various states were attempting to disarm black people (but not white people. Lynching is no fun if they shoot back). But not only are those times a distant past, but the expression "civil rights" isn't about EVERY amendment to the consitution. In any current meaning it is about the particulars like the 1st, 5th, etc. It is VERY debateable whether the 2nd is a "civil" right, even if one accepts that there is some individual right buried in there.
But their logic is even more flawed. Because the analogy would be about whether there should be buses at all, not whether certain people should be allowed to ride on them in the front.
barbiegeek
(1,140 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)It's been done right here.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)What's the point?