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If people really cared about gun homicides they would be more concerned with handguns. rifles and other long guns account ~3% of annual gun homicides. Literally a drop in the bucket.

Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

Try to limit magazine sizes, it's useless since they are now very easily 3D printed. Also good luck trying to ban AR-15s when we can now mill them in a garage or basement and actually find it cheaper than buying new by the time we get to the 3rd or 4th weapon.


The Bundys are snowflakes who should be in jail.

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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

are guns are the only way to overthrow tyrannical governments?

You can also call the president "Drumpf"

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I do not completely get this idea that mental health care is being gutted. I know some of the older guys like RR reference the Reagan years of closing down many psych wards and other benefits but that was some time ago. Clearly today's youth are not of that era.

There is the issue of healthcare in general which I suppose included mental health coverage. I think though that many people do have good insurance and accessibility. I also know that there are counselors of all sorts seemingly everywhere especially in schools.

Mental health and more specifically people that go "off" has to have more of a complex explanation than some system is "gutted".


I can attest to the poor state of mental health care in this country. I get shit on a lot around here, there has to be more than just me who is in some for of care or treatment but it is totally fucked up. Where I live there are no psychiatrists who will see me based on my insurance, I make too much for public health care. So when I need adjustments to my medication I go to my primary and we sit and talk and try to figure out what to do. I make too much for group therapy or any other type of help. When It is time to get my medications filled ,every three months, even with my discounts and using generics,I have to skimp on food for that month.

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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

are guns are the only way to overthrow tyrannical governments?

You can also call the president "Drumpf"

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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

are guns are the only way to overthrow tyrannical governments?

You can't do it without guns. See Catalonia where they have no guns and pretty much are at the mercy of the national police.

Ditto for Venezuela where the regime disarmed the population.

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If you wanted to do something serious about gun deaths you'd criminalize handguns, which are definitely much more dangerous and claim many times over the amount of lives than the spooky AR-15. I could actually get behind that, but its really all about image and glocks aren't really that scary looking so I'm probably not going to find much support.

Also, the reason the pro-guns refuse to cede any ground is they are acutely aware that the long-term goal is to just repeal the 2A and ban all guns. Granting any incremental progress or momentum towards that goal brings the day it happens that much closer. They are 100% correct too, you dont have to look very hard to see that the ideological core of the left wants to ban guns as part of their great culture war.

The biggest reason to repeal the 2A is if these continue to be an unsolvable problem with extreme resistance to any new legislation about it. If the gun lobby wants to fight any small incremental change then they set themselves up for enough people getting tired of it and changing the "living document" of the Constitution.

What do you mean "these"? Look if you want to put a big dent in gun deaths in the USA you're barking up the wrong tree trying to ban rifles. It's pretty obvious your agenda here isn't saving lives.


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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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There are hundreds of thousands of people who fit the same profile as this guy. Should we lock them up today?
There is no way that there are "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers who have been expelled from school, and have posted messages online about being a 'professional killer,' and shooting up schools and killing law enforcement officers as this guy did.
Go read just about any popular youtube video and you'll see tons of comments that would indicate the person is "dangerous". Social media networks are hiring hundreds or thousands of people to just read these comments and either delete them and/or report them.

Now, maybe the expelled part isn't always there but many of these school shootings don't have that either. It's loner kids who like guns. There are hundreds of thousands of those kids around.

However, even if it's one thousand kids who have been expelled from school, and have posted violent messages online, should we lock them all up?

YouTube reportedly reported the kid's comments to the FBI yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. The FBI screwed up here.

The school put a notice out he was not allowed on campus with a backpack, yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. Why didn't the school report him to the Feds?

The kid had 200 followers on his social media page. Kids were not surprised that he would shoot up the school. Yet, no one reported him.

Seems like many people allowed this kid to slip through the cracks and now 17 kids are dead.


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Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

are guns are the only way to overthrow tyrannical governments?

You can't do it without guns. See Catalonia where they have no guns and pretty much are at the mercy of the national police.

Ditto for Venezuela where the regime disarmed the population.

The modern Spanish government is tyrannical? Jesus...


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Boilermaker Rick wrote:
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There are hundreds of thousands of people who fit the same profile as this guy. Should we lock them up today?
There is no way that there are "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers who have been expelled from school, and have posted messages online about being a 'professional killer,' and shooting up schools and killing law enforcement officers as this guy did.
Go read just about any popular youtube video and you'll see tons of comments that would indicate the person is "dangerous".
I'm not talking "dangerous." I am talking about a gun owning teen who was expelled from school and made multiple comments across multiple social media sites (according to what is being reported) that involved posts about mass shootings and murder. That is a very specific profile that "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers do not fit.

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Peter Puck wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Frank Coztansa wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
There are hundreds of thousands of people who fit the same profile as this guy. Should we lock them up today?
There is no way that there are "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers who have been expelled from school, and have posted messages online about being a 'professional killer,' and shooting up schools and killing law enforcement officers as this guy did.
Go read just about any popular youtube video and you'll see tons of comments that would indicate the person is "dangerous". Social media networks are hiring hundreds or thousands of people to just read these comments and either delete them and/or report them.

Now, maybe the expelled part isn't always there but many of these school shootings don't have that either. It's loner kids who like guns. There are hundreds of thousands of those kids around.

However, even if it's one thousand kids who have been expelled from school, and have posted violent messages online, should we lock them all up?

YouTube reportedly reported the kid's comments to the FBI yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. The FBI screwed up here.

The school put a notice out he was not allowed on campus with a backpack, yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. Why didn't the school report him to the Feds?

The kid had 200 followers on his social media page. Kids were not surprised that he would shoot up the school. Yet, no one reported him.

Seems like many people allowed this kid to slip through the cracks and now 17 kids are dead.


Let's see, that totals YouTube, school administrators, and social media followers as all people who you think should have the effective ability to stop someone from buying a firearm by their reports causing a failed background check, is that right?


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Juice's Lecture Notes wrote:
Peter Puck wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Frank Coztansa wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
There are hundreds of thousands of people who fit the same profile as this guy. Should we lock them up today?
There is no way that there are "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers who have been expelled from school, and have posted messages online about being a 'professional killer,' and shooting up schools and killing law enforcement officers as this guy did.
Go read just about any popular youtube video and you'll see tons of comments that would indicate the person is "dangerous". Social media networks are hiring hundreds or thousands of people to just read these comments and either delete them and/or report them.

Now, maybe the expelled part isn't always there but many of these school shootings don't have that either. It's loner kids who like guns. There are hundreds of thousands of those kids around.

However, even if it's one thousand kids who have been expelled from school, and have posted violent messages online, should we lock them all up?

YouTube reportedly reported the kid's comments to the FBI yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. The FBI screwed up here.

The school put a notice out he was not allowed on campus with a backpack, yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. Why didn't the school report him to the Feds?

The kid had 200 followers on his social media page. Kids were not surprised that he would shoot up the school. Yet, no one reported him.

Seems like many people allowed this kid to slip through the cracks and now 17 kids are dead.


Let's see, that totals YouTube, school administrators, and social media followers as all people who you think should have the effective ability to stop someone from buying a firearm by their reports causing a failed background check, is that right?

Unless you are a completely inept lawyer, you know more goes into it once a report is made. There was more than enough here and that is what the b/g check is for.


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Frank Coztansa wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Frank Coztansa wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
There are hundreds of thousands of people who fit the same profile as this guy. Should we lock them up today?
There is no way that there are "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers who have been expelled from school, and have posted messages online about being a 'professional killer,' and shooting up schools and killing law enforcement officers as this guy did.
Go read just about any popular youtube video and you'll see tons of comments that would indicate the person is "dangerous".
I'm not talking "dangerous." I am talking about a gun owning teen who was expelled from school and made multiple comments across multiple social media sites (according to what is being reported) that involved posts about mass shootings and murder. That is a very specific profile that "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers do not fit.

Well I was so I'm not sure your reason for responding as you are.

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Look just simplify it with another killing method and ask yourself the same question. Is the reason a mad man drives a semi truck into a mall full of people because there was a truck or because he was deranged?.

By that logic, I assume you are ok with citizens possessing any and all weapons used by the military.

It's just a tool. The person is the issue.

A gun is a machine for killing. Denying that is ridiculous.


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Identify and somehow deal with people with that propensity beforehand. I already mentioned limit total capacity of magazines.

That seems like an attainable goal to you?


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Peter Puck wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Frank Coztansa wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
There are hundreds of thousands of people who fit the same profile as this guy. Should we lock them up today?
There is no way that there are "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers who have been expelled from school, and have posted messages online about being a 'professional killer,' and shooting up schools and killing law enforcement officers as this guy did.
Go read just about any popular youtube video and you'll see tons of comments that would indicate the person is "dangerous". Social media networks are hiring hundreds or thousands of people to just read these comments and either delete them and/or report them.

Now, maybe the expelled part isn't always there but many of these school shootings don't have that either. It's loner kids who like guns. There are hundreds of thousands of those kids around.

However, even if it's one thousand kids who have been expelled from school, and have posted violent messages online, should we lock them all up?

YouTube reportedly reported the kid's comments to the FBI yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. The FBI screwed up here.

The school put a notice out he was not allowed on campus with a backpack, yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. Why didn't the school report him to the Feds?

The kid had 200 followers on his social media page. Kids were not surprised that he would shoot up the school. Yet, no one reported him.

Seems like many people allowed this kid to slip through the cracks and now 17 kids are dead.

Go look at a popular YouTube video and the comments. There will be hundreds of potentially dangerous people posting in each though I think they do a better job of deleting now. We can't put all of them on a no gun list.

With the Vegas shooter I suggested a list of gun owners who could be independently checked against any number of lists. I was shot down and made fun of by JLN because he believes there is no electronic list of people who have served time in military jail. I'd suggest the same for FBI reported YouTube commenters but the FBI probably lacks that too!

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Peter Puck wrote:
Juice's Lecture Notes wrote:
Peter Puck wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
Frank Coztansa wrote:
Boilermaker Rick wrote:
There are hundreds of thousands of people who fit the same profile as this guy. Should we lock them up today?
There is no way that there are "hundreds of thousands" of teenagers who have been expelled from school, and have posted messages online about being a 'professional killer,' and shooting up schools and killing law enforcement officers as this guy did.
Go read just about any popular youtube video and you'll see tons of comments that would indicate the person is "dangerous". Social media networks are hiring hundreds or thousands of people to just read these comments and either delete them and/or report them.

Now, maybe the expelled part isn't always there but many of these school shootings don't have that either. It's loner kids who like guns. There are hundreds of thousands of those kids around.

However, even if it's one thousand kids who have been expelled from school, and have posted violent messages online, should we lock them all up?

YouTube reportedly reported the kid's comments to the FBI yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. The FBI screwed up here.

The school put a notice out he was not allowed on campus with a backpack, yet he passed the b/g check to get a gun. Why didn't the school report him to the Feds?

The kid had 200 followers on his social media page. Kids were not surprised that he would shoot up the school. Yet, no one reported him.

Seems like many people allowed this kid to slip through the cracks and now 17 kids are dead.


Let's see, that totals YouTube, school administrators, and social media followers as all people who you think should have the effective ability to stop someone from buying a firearm by their reports causing a failed background check, is that right?

Unless you are a completely inept lawyer, you know more goes into it once a report is made. There was more than enough here and that is what the b/g check is for.


I'm not a lawyer, so what goes into a "report" to the FBI?


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America wrote:
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It's access to and higher quality guns that has changed right?

Not that we can really only back now but that's it.

We're not crazier. We're not bullying more. There have always been nuts and nerds.

Firearms technology has been mostly the same for over 50 years. I guess for precision shooting there have been a lot of new cartridges and rifles, but the AR-15 and 5.56 have been around forever. Darkside knows more about this than I, but "assault rifles" like the AK-47 and AR-15 are not modern weapons.

So given the major changes you wanted to make when one cop was killed including life sentences for 3 time felons what changes should be made when about 20 kids are killed?

Also, please include a rant about liberals in your answer.

I proposed no major changes in that thread, or really any thread. Killing all the burrito liberals, or at least sending them to Canada, would be a good idea though.

You wanted 3 felonies = life sentence. That's a major change.

Your posts in this thread are far different. Why is that?

I believe I said that in specific reference to that individual. The good boy, who didn't do nothing.

And Chicago street violence alone claims more lives every year than all school shootings combined. You just can't be bothered to give a shit about Chicago street violence because as long as it's the negroes and Mexicans killing each other you're cool with it. School shootings are high profile and make for great TV, but they pale in comparison to street crime.

I wonder what the number is with kids?

More killed in Mass shootings or street violence?


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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

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0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.

If they wanted to, the government could have erased Bundy and his pals from existence in about 2 seconds.


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rogers park bryan wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

.

0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.

If they wanted to, the government could have erased Bundy and his pals from existence in about 2 seconds.

Goat fuckers with old Soviet shit have stymied the USA for over a decade in Afghanistan. An F-22 can't stand on a street corner.


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rogers park bryan wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

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0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.


So our rights are now conditional based on the probability that we could effectively...use them? That doesn't sound like a good approach.


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I wonder what the number is with kids?

More killed in Mass shootings or street violence?

More under-18's probably die in Chicago alone than in all school shootings in the entire country.

55 have already been killed in Chicago this year, I'm not gonna parse the numbers but it wouldn't shock me if 17 teenagers are among the dead.


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If you wanted to do something serious about gun deaths you'd criminalize handguns, which are definitely much more dangerous and claim many times over the amount of lives than the spooky AR-15. I could actually get behind that, but its really all about image and glocks aren't really that scary looking so I'm probably not going to find much support.

Also, the reason the pro-guns refuse to cede any ground is they are acutely aware that the long-term goal is to just repeal the 2A and ban all guns. Granting any incremental progress or momentum towards that goal brings the day it happens that much closer. They are 100% correct too, you dont have to look very hard to see that the ideological core of the left wants to ban guns as part of their great culture war.

The biggest reason to repeal the 2A is if these continue to be an unsolvable problem with extreme resistance to any new legislation about it. If the gun lobby wants to fight any small incremental change then they set themselves up for enough people getting tired of it and changing the "living document" of the Constitution.

Nah. Guns aren't going anywhere

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Juice's Lecture Notes wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

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0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.


So our rights are now conditional based on the probability that we could effectively...use them? That doesn't sound like a good approach.

I think a discussion based in reality is more productive than one based in an idyllic setting that doesn't exist.

Does the 2A mention AR-15s? Cause I'm not talking about taking the right to own any firearm away.


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America wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

.

0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.

If they wanted to, the government could have erased Bundy and his pals from existence in about 2 seconds.

Goat fuckers with old Soviet shit have stymied the USA for over a decade in Afghanistan. An F-22 can't stand on a street corner.

Yeah. Pretty much the entire history of the world would disagree with RPB there.

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If you wanted to do something serious about gun deaths you'd criminalize handguns, which are definitely much more dangerous and claim many times over the amount of lives than the spooky AR-15. I could actually get behind that, but its really all about image and glocks aren't really that scary looking so I'm probably not going to find much support.

Also, the reason the pro-guns refuse to cede any ground is they are acutely aware that the long-term goal is to just repeal the 2A and ban all guns. Granting any incremental progress or momentum towards that goal brings the day it happens that much closer. They are 100% correct too, you dont have to look very hard to see that the ideological core of the left wants to ban guns as part of their great culture war.

The biggest reason to repeal the 2A is if these continue to be an unsolvable problem with extreme resistance to any new legislation about it. If the gun lobby wants to fight any small incremental change then they set themselves up for enough people getting tired of it and changing the "living document" of the Constitution.

Nah. Guns aren't going anywhere

yeah, you need 2/3rds in both houses and 3/4th of state legislatures. That's not happening and I'm thankful for that.

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rogers park bryan wrote:
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rogers park bryan wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

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0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.


So our rights are now conditional based on the probability that we could effectively...use them? That doesn't sound like a good approach.

I think a discussion based in reality is more productive than one based in an idyllic setting that doesn't exist.

Does the 2A mention AR-15s? Cause I'm not talking about taking the right to own any firearm away.

Does the 1A mention the internet?

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America wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

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0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.

If they wanted to, the government could have erased Bundy and his pals from existence in about 2 seconds.

Goat fuckers with old Soviet shit have stymied the USA for over a decade in Afghanistan. An F-22 can't stand on a street corner.

You think the US military couldn't wipe them out if they chose to?

Seems maybe the reason that hasn't happened is the projected reaction, not the inability to complete it.


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America wrote:
rogers park bryan wrote:
Ogie Oglethorpe wrote:
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Besides, weapons like the AR-15 are the type of weapon needed for the 2nd Amendment to work as intended. It's purpose is to ensure we can adequately repel a tyrannical government, and weapons such as the AR-15 have already proven this capability. Just look at the Bundy Ranch Standoff in Nevada a few years back.

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0.0000000001 % chance it will happen but if it did...0% chance you as a citizen are putting up an defense against the military.

If they wanted to, the government could have erased Bundy and his pals from existence in about 2 seconds.

Goat fuckers with old Soviet shit have stymied the USA for over a decade in Afghanistan. An F-22 can't stand on a street corner.

Yeah. Pretty much the entire history of the world would disagree with RPB there.

Pretty much this. You would think people would have learned this after Vietnam and 16 years of failure to control Afghanistan.

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The solution is more guns.

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