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Another Winner Facebook Picture (Original Post) RockaFowler Feb 2013 OP
why even bother to post that here? NMDemDist2 Feb 2013 #1
This is disturbing RockaFowler Feb 2013 #3
That's the NRA line zipplewrath Feb 2013 #7
I thought his title was sarcasm barbiegeek Feb 2013 #6
Gun culture loves to compare its "plight" to THE Civil Rights Movement. Hoyt Feb 2013 #2
At one point, the constitution gave us the right to call a human being 3/5ths of a person. Tommy_Carcetti Feb 2013 #4
I'm sure some FReeper has posted this, too. Loup Garou Feb 2013 #5

NMDemDist2

(49,313 posts)
1. why even bother to post that here?
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:39 PM
Feb 2013

you'll be called a troll and worse. or do you just like stirring the pot?

RockaFowler

(7,429 posts)
3. This is disturbing
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:41 PM
Feb 2013

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)
7. That's the NRA line
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:56 PM
Feb 2013

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.

Tommy_Carcetti

(43,182 posts)
4. At one point, the constitution gave us the right to call a human being 3/5ths of a person.
Thu Feb 7, 2013, 05:42 PM
Feb 2013

What's the point?

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