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Gun Control Reform Activism

guillaumeb

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1. please keep it going

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Sun Feb 15, 2015, 10:20 PM

Feb 2015

an excellent how-to for debating the issue.

Thomm Hartmann has also suggested that gun owners be required to purchase insurance. Why not? I am required to insure my car.

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please keep it going guillaumeb Feb 2015 #1

Yes shenmue Feb 2015 #2

Seems sensible to me.... daleanime Feb 2015 #5

The gist: with proper regulation, there shouldn't be ANY need to "confiscate yer guns." K&R Beartracks Feb 2015 #3

At the core of the gun rights movement is absolutism. flamin lib Feb 2015 #4

The argument always is "the right to defend oneself" BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #6

+1. A gun or two AT HOME doesn't really concern me. A bunch of guns and/or public toting, does. Hoyt Feb 2015 #7

Gunners will argue they need to be armed at all times in public BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #8

As Justice Stevens noted in his dissent in Heller: billh58 Feb 2015 #9

on the mark again guillaumeb Feb 2015 #10

Most excellent BrotherIvan Feb 2015 #11