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Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

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7. What 'well regulated militia" would that be...

Reply to eridani (Original post)

Wed Oct 28, 2015, 02:41 PM

Oct 2015

What 'well regulated militia" would that be, and what relationship does it have to the 80+ million people in possession of 250+ million firearms, who do not and will not commit gun violence?

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Yet more soldiers in our "well-regulated militias"--- [View all] eridani Oct 2015 OP

US = United Stupidity! n/t RKP5637 Oct 2015 #1

Always a proper holster, my DW has a nice holster for her 642. ileus Oct 2015 #2

Guns doing what guns want to do....kill and maim...300 million of them lying around... get bored. Fred Sanders Oct 2015 #3

Anthropomorphizing, just like tribes in the Amazon basin do. DonP Oct 2015 #4

I just flashed on thst Disney film with an animated kitchen, tootin' away.... nt Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #5

News flash: people do dumb stuff Silicosys4 Oct 2015 #6

The purpose of cars is to get you from point a to point b eridani Oct 2015 #8

We are talking about results of possession, not the purpose of possession friendly_iconoclast Oct 2015 #9

What 'well regulated militia" would that be... beevul Oct 2015 #7