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A WELL REGULATED MILITIA, BEING NECESSARY TO THE SECURITY OF A FREE STATE, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
I don't see anything about individual gun owners. I DO see an amendment about regulated militias, and about how militias are vital to the security of a free state, and need guns.
"...the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
In other words, a gun owner shooting a criminal intending to do him/his family harm is in fact protected by the 2nd Amendment allowing people to keep and bear arms...and through State laws that give people legal rights to defend themselves with those arms.
What part of that do you not understand? Should I even ask?
(I'm a bit skittish of liberal logic these days. I don't like being nauseated)
LaPierre is funded by the gun manufacturers. The majority of NRA owners don't even agree with the NRA's stand on not supporting universal background checks. If he was representing gun owners he would lobby according to their principles, but he is not. He is lobbying for the gun manufacturers.
A lobbyist is a lobbyist. There's no flavors of good lobbyists vs bad or are you trying to say that Gifford's super PAC is a good lobby ?
Lobbyists are jobs. Someone pays them and they dance to that agenda.
Giffords runs her super-PAC just like LaPierre runs his NRA lobbying group.
I see no difference. Both have backers with $$$ that are pushing agendas.
Whether you support or oppose gun-control the way you people talk about Gabby is pretty sh*tty. You can espouse a political opinion without being a d*ckhead which some of you have a little difficulty comprehending.
I prefer to be a ****head. Gabby Giffords' opinion is no more important than mine or yours. But that sure didn't stop your side from trotting her out like circus clown seeking political gain did it?
Gabby Giffords is a victim of gun violence--it's completely changed her life and she may never fully recover--but she's just supposed to "put up and shut up," right? If anyone has the right to speak out on this issue, she's earned it. The rest of you are completely full of crap.
You know--the mean, just NASTINESS that you people spout is hurting your cause more than anything else. You're turning off CONSERVATIVES with common sense--it's getting to the point where sane people won't come near some factions of the R party, and the party as a whole is branded as a bunch of meanspirited nuts. Do you get that? If you don't care, that's great, but don't whine when you keep losing elections.
^^^This!
I'd rep you a million times if I could. This painful truth is something the Repubs refuse to admit.
If anything, Blabby Giffords should be an advocate of the healthcare system that treated her injury and recovery. I think she went to the wrong hearing.
Seriously? "Blabby Giffords"??? Do you point at Down's Syndrome kids on the street and called them "retards" too? What kind of soul-less neanderthal thinks it's ever okay to call a victim names?
Who raised you to be an adult? They should be ashamed of themselves.
Go kick a puppy, it's just as noble as what you're doing.
Enjoy your self-deemed victories in city-data world...which FYI...doesn't mean sh*t.
Thats another thing you and the Chiefs have in common....perpetual losing and perpetual nastiness.
I'm noticing a theme.
Haha. Ah, don't mind them. Like I said, they're classless & tasteless. To take a tragedy like this & turn it into something ugly is truly only what a sorry sort of being would do.
LaPierre is funded by the gun manufacturers. The majority of NRA owners don't even agree with the NRA's stand on not supporting universal background checks. If he was representing gun owners he would lobby according to their principles, but he is not. He is lobbying for the gun manufacturers.
So you are quite informed about the NRA and who funds it.
How's about Gifford's super-PAC ? Are you just as informed ?
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I think she went to the wrong hearing.