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Ummm no, we all share the same rights. Legally speaking, how you feel about guns is irrelevant. They are protected as a right of the people. Your free to leave if you dont like rights.
The lawmakers may have intended for the right to keep and bear arms to be nothing more than the common law right to keep the arms the King said you could keep.
I am a very serious gun owner. In my lifetime, I have spent several hundred thousand dollars on guns and hunting the most dangerous game. However, when it comes to dangerous criminals, I leave that to the police authorities.
OK - your point is?????
Think about this though: If that "dangerous" criminal is in my home - threatening my (or your) family - what good are the police at that moment?
Maybe we should work on controlling dangerous people.
The thing is that you cannot control people, only try to prevent incidents.
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Firearms really are the “great equalizer” and owning and carrying a firearm should be encouraged.
No they make unstable people even more dangerous.
BTW if everyone truly has a gun, the gun stops being an equalizer.
In this case the one who is the most paranoid (draws his gun the quickest) will be the top dog.
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Remember disarming everybody does not protect anybody except the security forces that really do not want to face an armed population when they start enforcing political correctness or religious zealotry.
LoL are you claiming that only gun owners reason rational?
People who are motivated by fear rarely act rational, simply because they are stricken by their emotion (fear).
I would use what means to defend myself as is permitted by law. That does not necessarily mean that I have the right to use deadly force in every circumstance, as many who have been convicted of manslaughter have learned to their detriment.
The lawmakers may have intended for the right to keep and bear arms to be nothing more than the common law right to keep the arms the King said you could keep.
How would change the fact that the Constitution grants the government no power to legislate regarding firearms?
Earth to Flash. The government's been legislating restrictions on "arms" since the earliest days of the country. You saying it doesn't will not make a difference.
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