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Er...conservatives/knee jerks re: ...patriot act, iraq invasion, domestic spying, Guantanamo bay, water boarding, homeland security...just to name a few.
Hyperbole much?
All voted for by Democrats too. Good thing we have a Democrat for a president and for years had a Congress controlled by Democrats so they could get rid of all that...Oh that's right, THEY DIDN'T. All they did was expand on all of it. Hypocrisy much?
So when the National Guard/ Marines turn up to grab your self loading rifle do you take them on ?
Nothing like the sound of rounds going through a M2 50 cal, hey you did not think it would be a fair fight did you ?
Do you support Obama signing an executive order to ban assault weapons, even though it means we will not have a say?
Certainly, since the federal legislature is clearly incapable of acting for, and the judiciary positively acting against, the safety of the people, it is an incumbent duty of the chief magistrate to do so. By authority of the executive, an immediate prohibition on the sale of such weapons should be promulgated, and all citizens currently in possession should be required under pain of forfeiture to register and license them.
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I think this is an important question.
Clearly, you don't, except as a rhetorical stratagem.
To those who vote no, you all have blood on your hands.
What if it was your child in Newtown?
I'd still vote NO. We don't enact laws in this country based just on raw emotion or just because it makes you "feel good"
My father died of alcoholism. He drank until his body shut completely down and blood started seeping through the pores of his skin. Maybe I think the POTUS should sign an executive order halting all sales of alcoholic beverages. You have blood on your hands if you don't support it, what if it was your father?
Do you see the idiocy of this line of thinking? I doubt it......
To those who vote no, you all have blood on your hands.
What if it was your child in Newtown?
You, sir, are reacting without any real knowledge.
You see, there were 12,996 murders committed in 2010. At absolute MOST, 358 of these were done with so-called "assault weapons". I say at most, because that is the total number of people killed with rifles of any kind, assault or otherwise, and they don't differentiate.
So, even if you assume that every rifle murder victim was killed by an "assault weapon", which is an unreasonable assumption, it still amounts to only 2.75% of ALL murders.
To further make my point, in the same time period:
1,704 people were killed with knives. 4x the total amount from ALL rifles.
540 were killed with blunt objects, more than ALL rifles.
And finally, 742 people were killed with NO implements whatsoever, meeting their maker from JUST fists and feet.
So, 2 times as many people are killed from fists that even the hypothetical maximum from "assault weapons" (which is probably 2-3x the actual "assault weapon" rate).
So, unless you're calling for us to ban fists and feet, calling to ban so-called "assault weapons" is an emotional reaction to a non-existent threat. React as you will.
So why the heck does anyone need a flippin' assault rifle anyway, except to take out a crowd of people... you know, single-handedly stage an assault? Or has Bambi started wearing Kevlar these days?
This demonstrates how little some people know about guns and different calibers. The average "assault rifle" is a .223 caliber round which is actually a quite small bullet. Its considerably smaller than both my handgun rounds AND .308 hunting rifle rounds. Yes my bolt action rifle does more damage in one shot than the .223. Also...hunting isn't even the main reason the 2nd amendment exists.
BTW I voted in the poll before I read that it was for lefties only, as probably happened many times.
So when the National Guard/ Marines turn up to grab your self loading rifle do you take them on ?
Nothing like the sound of rounds going through a M2 50 cal, hey you did not think it would be a fair fight did you ?
But, it will be popcorn time.
our military has taken a pledge to protect and defend this country and the constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. understand however that they are, by law and the constitution, from doing exactly what you suggest. they are also allowed by military law to disobey illegal orders, and going around and grabbing the legally owned firearms of US citizens on the orders of the president, except under the right legal conditions, would be an illegal order.
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