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Gun Control & RKBA

discntnt_irny_srcsm

(18,603 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 03:28 PM Oct 2016

Would it be fair to say that if you want to ban something... [View all]

...which is so difficult to define as to make "loopholes" so common and conforming but functional equivalents so simple that the task is meaningless?

A new AWB: an exercise in futility, pandering and photo ops.

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Would it be fair to say that if you want to ban something... [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 OP

Not if you actually want to ban something. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #1

I maintain that if you're not able adequately define the object of the ban: discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 #3

I am someone who would be quite happy to ban all guns. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #4

re: "If you actually want to ban something, you ban it." discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 #6

"Black Rifles Matter!!!" stone space Oct 2016 #5

The point of most bans is not workability, but punishment. Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #2