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Old 10-02-2015, 10:46 AM
 
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There should be a total ban on guns. The only people who should be authorized to have them, are law enforcement. All the gun nuts need to be stripped of their weapons, and immediately sent to a mental health professional to try to rid them of their severe affliction.

Huckabee is laughable as a presidential candidate because he always takes the wrong positions, and what he represents on this subject, is repulsive to the well-being of this country...obviously.
They aren't the problem. Criminals and the mentally ill are. Do you advocate removing weapons from their hands or just those you deem "gun nuts"? And if we're sending folks for mental health help, let's put the poor souls who believe anyone with a letter D after their name is all good and anyone with a letter R is all bad and visa versa at the front of the line. What a delusional view of the political system. Maybe there's a pill for that.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:47 AM
 
Location: DFW
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There should be a total ban on guns. .
Let's just outlaw all Blacks from owning guns. That would stop 90% of the murders in most large cities, right?

What would you do about all the current criminals who kill who are in possession of a gun?

Prohibition has done such a great job in stopping alcohol and drugs.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:47 AM
 
Location: A great city, by a Great Lake!
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Hopefully you are being cynical here. If not, can you please explain how we would remove the 300 million+ guns out there, and furthermore, how would you get criminals to give up their guns, and even further, how would you prevent acquisition of guns via the black market?

Nevermind the fact it will leave those of us who don't do anything wrong more vulnerable to the dregs of society.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:50 AM
 
Location: Southern Oregon
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There should be a total ban on guns. The only people who should be authorized to have them, are law enforcement. All the gun nuts need to be stripped of their weapons, and immediately sent to a mental health professional to try to rid them of their severe affliction.

Huckabee is laughable as a presidential candidate because he always takes the wrong positions, and what he represents on this subject, is repulsive to the well-being of this country...obviously.
Why stop at stripping the 2nd amendment from the Constitution, we could do away with the pesky 1st amendment, you know, the one allow the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press oh, lets not forget the freedom of religion. Hell, lets just do away with all the bill of rights, then we be like China or like most of the banana republics, the worst thing we can is to give people rights. I do think that your Totalitarian view would be welcome in some countries but not in the United States.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:50 AM
 
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There should be a total ban on guns. The only people who should be authorized to have them, are law enforcement. All the gun nuts need to be stripped of their weapons, and immediately sent to a mental health professional to try to rid them of their severe affliction.

Huckabee is laughable as a presidential candidate because he always takes the wrong positions, and what he represents on this subject, is repulsive to the well-being of this country...obviously.

People like you need to be rounded up, stripped of your US citizenship and shipped off to Australia.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:50 AM
 
Location: San Diego
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There should be a total ban on guns. The only people who should be authorized to have them, are law enforcement. All the gun nuts need to be stripped of their weapons, and immediately sent to a mental health professional to try to rid them of their severe affliction.

Huckabee is laughable as a presidential candidate because he always takes the wrong positions, and what he represents on this subject, is repulsive to the well-being of this country...obviously.
hahahahaha

You couldn't pay anyone crazy enough to sign up for that gig. Even if you could gather a few foolish enough to try it after the very first attack on a gun owner you'd have a full fledge civil war.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:51 AM
 
Location: On the Chesapeake
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There should be a total ban on guns. The only people who should be authorized to have them, are law enforcement. All the gun nuts need to be stripped of their weapons, and immediately sent to a mental health professional to try to rid them of their severe affliction.

Huckabee is laughable as a presidential candidate because he always takes the wrong positions, and what he represents on this subject, is repulsive to the well-being of this country...obviously.
I think Gov. Huckabee has his answer, which is the ultimate aim. One small "common sense" step at a time.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:52 AM
 
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and therein lies the problem. everyone clamors for more gun control, and the first thing they start with is ban "assault weapons" and high capacity magazines, neither of which will do anything to stop these mass shootings.

until we get to the root cause of the violent tendencies, we will never stop these types of events.

but lets say that we eliminate guns from the picture completely, with a chemistry book i can create either a large enough explosive, or i can create a large enough chemical weapon to kill large numbers of people and in short period of time, and i can do it with innocuous chemicals and other items that wouldnt raise any red flags anywhere. so then what do we do, start banning the innocuous chemicals?
Abundant automatic weapons (at least one gun per person in the USA) and a gun culture leads to the mass shooting we see see every few weeks.

All other countries in the world have folks with psych problems, but they do not have the mass shootings. The only difference is that these countries do not have a gun culture.

All automatic weapons should be banned. The only legal firearms should be non-automatic. Any automatic forearm should be immediately impounded by the government.
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:52 AM
 
Location: Eastern Tennessee
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While we are banning, let's ban cars so nobody gets run over and electricity so nobody gets electrocuted and natural gas so one dies in explosion and hammers so....oops, I left out knives
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Old 10-02-2015, 10:53 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Nevermind the fact it will leave those of us who don't do anything wrong more vulnerable to the dregs of society.
Rights grabbers are not programmed to compute facts. They call everyone who does not agree with them a nut, crazy, radical, and they are uber-reactionaries... not realizing it is actually they who are the nuts, crazy, and radical.



His useful idiots.
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