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X:post - "The Fallacy of Second Amendment Absolutism". [View all]
Can we maybe talk about at least limiting, even if it turns out to be only a symbolic gesture, the nearly unfettered ability to legally purchase weapons of unlimited caliber and capacity for carnage?
Sure we can, right after we talk about the current legal limit of caliber - it isn't unlimited.
Maybe add reasonable waiting periods and background checks onto that...
Number one, a right delayed is a right denied. Number two, who told this guy there were no background checks?
Any guesses?
According to never-compromise NRA arguments, the Second Amendment is sacrosanct and absolute, without room for nuance, interpretation or application to changing historical circumstance.
The absolutist nra: "NRA-backed bill aims to keep guns from the mentally ill"
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/nra-backed-bill-aims-keep-guns-mentally-ill/
...along with some renewed teeth in mental health services...
I've been informed repeatedly by the local branch of the gun control cult, that mental health is an nra talking point.
Approximately the usual erection of straw and back slapping when its knocked over, for the rest of it.
I will note this, however: The fact that the voice of DUs gun control movement in bansalot is now posting sources which emit talking points that many local denizens of the gun control cult itself have deemed to be 'nra talking points', and actually highlighting them in bold
...well, that's just endlessly entertaining to me.
The OP in bansalot:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/126211269
The...piece ...which they're discussing:
http://andrewhidas.com/the-fallacy-of-second-amendment-absolutism/
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