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I am a gun owner and hunter. I have no issue with background checks or closing the alleged loopholes. I wonder tho. How many mass shootings were the result of not having back ground checks and the alleged loopholes?
Idk, nothing can prevent the really crazy mass shootings in my opinion. However, gun violence in inner cities has gone down in all states that have enacted their own restrictions.
A lot of us have been saying for a long time that either the gun fetishists are going to participate in a national dialogue on what to do about the murder rate and mass shootings in the U.S., or they are going to get steamrolled by the tidal wave of popular support for measures to address the issue.
Looks like President Obama is getting ready to pounce on it, since the GOP is incapable of voting unless the NRA tells them how. His proposals won't solve the problems entirely, but every little bit helps. Doing nothing is not an option.
This is Absolutely, Positively the BEST news I've heard in a Year.
Nothing is better than the "I WON" guy and all his Minions (including Hillary Clinton and EVERY Democrat running for election) to jump on the "Executive Action" Bandwagon to "change" the 2nd Amendment in an Election Year.
Go Obama GO. Valerie is giving you the same great advise she has given you through 7 years of Disaster. It couldn't happen at a better time than an Election Year.
I am a gun owner and hunter. I have no issue with background checks or closing the alleged loopholes. I wonder tho. How many mass shootings were the result of not having back ground checks and the alleged loopholes?
None. But the anti gun nut fanatics won't acknowledge reality.
I reload my own. With my gear I can crank out several thousand rounds a day.
But keep dreaming, and the 2A is absolute. Shall not be infringed means exactly that. At best your idiot in the WH can have my Title III license pulled and that wouldn't break my heart. Still a lot of legally owned machine guns and cannons out there. Good luck seizing those.
Why do you take such offense at what he said? Gun rights are not absolute, that has been demonstrated several times by SCOTUS refusing to hear gun cases:
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