With the same swiftness that views re gay marriage changed, same happening re gun reform.

conorlarkin 23186 posts Original UHND Member

Posted 1:21 pm on Aug 11, 2019

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Link: https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/09/how-americans-are-supporting-gun-control-wake-mass-shootings-like-el-paso/?noredirect=on

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With the same swiftness that views re gay marriage changed, same happening re gun reform.NTLink conorlarkin 1:21pm · 8/11/19
- All civilizations decay.,, it isn't actually "progressive" at all.. Curly1918 5:46pm · 8/11/19
  - Let’s see pederasty, infanticide, mass murder, and restrictions on guns. Which doesn’t go with the Frank L 5:49pm · 8/11/19
    - None! They are all interconnected deep in the human unconscious. Curly1918 5:57pm · 8/11/19
      - If you say so.NT Frank L 11:55am · 8/12/19
- Rights aren't subject to vote. Glad we have a civil rights organization like the NRA protecting us.NT NedoftheHill 1:25pm · 8/11/19
  - Be honest... the NRA suffer from serious castration anxiety... and are terrified of threats... Curly1918 5:49pm · 8/11/19
    - That is a little dramatic. It is more simple than that. NedoftheHill 8:13pm · 8/11/19
  - “civil rights organization.” You understand its purpose, alright.NT Chris94 3:09pm · 8/11/19
    - I always thought a combination of the ACLU & NRA would make the perfrect civil rights organization. NedoftheHill 3:19pm · 8/11/19
      - Dont worry ACLU absolutism is also alive and well. Take Charlottesville. Frank L 9:58pm · 8/11/19
      - The NRA was not established to protect rights, Ned. Chris94 3:40pm · 8/11/19
        
        I don't want to embarrass you, Chris, but you are outside your area of expertise on this. NedoftheHill 4:10pm · 8/11/19
        
        You’re simply wrong Chris94 6:02pm · 8/11/19
        
        I respect that you recognize your earlier post is wrong, so you changed. But, you're still wrong. NedoftheHill 8:16pm · 8/11/19
        
        Membership is irrelevant. It is a lobbying org for gun manufacturers.NT Chris94 8:34am · 8/12/19
        
        Membership, especially of that magnitude, makes all the difference. You are wrong, Chris.NT NedoftheHill 11:38am · 8/12/19
        
        It was initially a sportsman’s group. No lobbying and they didn’t give two shits about handguns. Frank L 5:47pm · 8/11/19
        
        And supported several kinds of gun control they oppose today.NT MAS 7:16pm · 8/11/19
        
        Yep. Now it’s essentially a group run by lawyers and lobbyists who take the most extreme positions. Frank L 7:27pm · 8/11/19
        
        Call it what you will. They do necessary work that many people don't appreciate. Like ACLU of old. NedoftheHill 8:19pm · 8/11/19
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        Yep, my father had been a member since his childhood. iairishcheeks 6:14pm · 8/11/19
        
        AR's are the types of guns most protected by the 2nd Amendment. Others are secondary.NT NedoftheHill 8:25pm · 8/11/19
        
        So, he became a communist gun-grabber?NT MAS 7:17pm · 8/11/19
        
        Still have my grand dad’s card from the late 30’s.NT Frank L 6:53pm · 8/11/19
  - Since when is the Second Amendment an unlimited right?NT conorlarkin 2:31pm · 8/11/19
    - You think constitutional rights can be limited based on popularity at any one point in time?!NT BaronVonZemo 7:22pm · 8/11/19
      - “Popularity” is the wrong term. The Supreme Court has relied on evolving social science. conorlarkin 8:00pm · 8/11/19
        
        Surely you wouldn't use the limit on shouting fire in a theater to limit political speech? NedoftheHill 8:21pm · 8/11/19
        
        Are you seriously equating mass shootings via high capacity firearms with political speech? conorlarkin 8:27pm · 8/11/19
        
        Actually, that is what your side does: equate speech with violence. I'm not doing that. NedoftheHill 9:32pm · 8/11/19
        
        The US Supreme Court decides the boundaries of constitutional rights. conorlarkin 9:50pm · 8/11/19
        
        You miss my point. Intentionally I assume. But, you understand it, since you stopped arguing yours.NT NedoftheHill 10:48pm · 8/11/19
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    - Hmm. Perhaps since free speech was an unlimited right...and freedom of religion. Why ask me that?NT NedoftheHill 3:17pm · 8/11/19
  - Exception being a woman's right to choose, eh Ned.NT ND521 2:22pm · 8/11/19
    - Conor is curious: Since when has any person's right to choose to act been an unlimited right? NedoftheHill 3:20pm · 8/11/19
  - They are subject to regulation though and the mood in the nation is shifting. There will be more of Frank L 1:56pm · 8/11/19
    - I agree: The nature of gov't is to limit rights, & the gov't has almost infinite attempts to do so. NedoftheHill 2:03pm · 8/11/19

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