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View Poll Results: How do you feel about gun control laws?
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Current laws infringe on our rights and should be weakened
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Current laws are just fine, thanks. We don't need anything more
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Current laws are not satisfactory, there are "common sense" adjustments that should be made
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02-18-2018, 09:17 PM
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Resurrectionist
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Originally Posted by steveb
Wanker, literally "one who wanks (masturbates)", is a general insult. It is a pejorative term of English origin common in Britain and other parts of the English-speaking world (mainly commonwealth nations), including Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
now what about you!!
i would bet you would leave me for dead in the wanking department!!!
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I am sure after a 12-pack even you would seem attractive 
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02-18-2018, 09:25 PM
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#137
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PA Steward
Join Date: Mar 2001
Location: Del Boca Vista
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You two could use a time-out from this thread.
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02-18-2018, 09:31 PM
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#138
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Resurrectionist
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Quote:
Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
You two could use a time-out from this thread.
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Timing myself out on the naughty mat. 
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02-18-2018, 09:34 PM
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#139
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: Melbourne Australia
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Originally Posted by PaceAdvantage
You two could use a time-out from this thread.
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i was simply reading it, and if he did not refer to me, then i would not have said anything.
but he did and so i did.
at least he now knows what a wanker is.
a look in the mirror would be self confirmation too!!
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02-18-2018, 10:25 PM
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#140
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gelding
Join Date: Oct 2008
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A long, disturbing accounting of how the intention of the 2nd amendment has been methodically twisted by the NRA:
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02-18-2018, 11:35 PM
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Join Date: Jul 2013
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FantasticDan
A long, disturbing accounting of how the intention of the 2nd amendment has been methodically twisted by the NRA:
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Oops, hints of the truth about the liberal agenda are starting to bubble to the top of the swamp. The left doesn't really want "common sense adjustments" to gun control laws, they want to abolish the 2nd Amendment. Just as they don't really want a good deal on DACA, they want amnesty for 12 million illegals.
Ironic that the go-to researcher for the liberal history of the 2nd Amendment is named Carl T. Bogus. 
And the Bogus story is a long and, for a lot of reasons disturbing, account. But it is not worth discussing because it is not relevant.
Laws with long histories are shaped by the original intent and by common usage and by changing norms and technology and by the courts. Whether or not it was the intent of the founders (I think it was), the 2nd Amendment today protects an individual right, and that is not going to be seriously challenged, let alone changed, for some time.
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02-19-2018, 12:27 AM
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gelding
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clocker
Oops, hints of the truth about the liberal agenda are starting to bubble to the top of the swamp. The left doesn't really want "common sense adjustments" to gun control laws, they want to abolish the 2nd Amendment.
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 That's what you get from that article, huh?
Well, I guess if you weren't as well stocked with paranoia as you are with ammunition, you wouldn't be a gun nut 
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02-19-2018, 12:31 AM
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Resurrectionist
Join Date: Jan 2017
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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
That's what you get from that article, huh?
Well, I guess if you weren't as well stocked with paranoia as you are with ammunition, you wouldn't be a gun nut |
Takes one to know one
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02-19-2018, 12:53 AM
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gelding
Join Date: Oct 2008
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jocko699
Takes one to know one
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I appreciate you making an effort to improve the quality of your typical responses
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02-19-2018, 01:00 AM
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#145
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Quote:
Originally Posted by FantasticDan
That's what you get from that article, huh?
Well, I guess if you weren't as well stocked with paranoia as you are with ammunition, you wouldn't be a gun nut |
No, I got some good stuff there. Like I found out that the NRA was dormant through the 1960s because Lee Harvey Oswald bought his sniper rifle (I'm sure it would be called an assault weapon today) through an ad in the NRA magazine. 
Actually, there was nothing in the article that I had not seen before. Just one more futile shot at trying to chip away at the 2nd Amendment.
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02-19-2018, 01:55 AM
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Originally Posted by FantasticDan
Well, I guess if you weren't as well stocked with paranoia as you are with ammunition, you wouldn't be a gun nut |
Paranoia is defined as delusions of persecution, imagining that people are out to get you. Gun owners have no delusions about it, they know that in reality there are people who want to abolish the 2nd Amendment and to take away their guns.
It is people that fear legal gun owners that are paranoid.
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02-19-2018, 07:50 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Clocker
Paranoia is defined as delusions of persecution, imagining that people are out to get you. Gun owners have no delusions about it, they know that in reality there are people who want to abolish the 2nd Amendment and to take away their guns.
It is people that fear legal gun owners that are paranoid.
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The above is why it's so hard to have meaningful discussions about gun control FD.
The mere fact we even talk about "assault weapons" instead of hand guns is proof the logic isn't nearly as important as emotion to gun control advocates.
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02-19-2018, 07:59 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2009
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Meaningful discussion is what we need, what we want is some new tweets from people no one knows.
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02-19-2018, 08:10 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2015
Location: Beaverdam Virginia
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Quote:
Originally Posted by elysiantraveller
The above is why it's so hard to have meaningful discussions about gun control FD.
The mere fact we even talk about "assault weapons" instead of hand guns is proof the logic isn't nearly as important as emotion to gun control advocates.
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More people are killed by knives than all rifles combined.
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02-19-2018, 09:39 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2010
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Inner Dirt
More people are killed by knives than all rifles combined.
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Not even close if you include all firearms vs. knife murders per the fbi's database. Looking at five years from 2009-2013, total firearm deaths(murders) were 64.8k in US. vs. 8.3k for knives. I didn't find the last five years, but would venture a guess that it's probably worse.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s..._2009-2013.xls
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