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Why would you own an assault rifle?

Would you own an assault Rifle? Why?

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Thunder said:
according to OUR Supreme Court, the right to keep & bear arms is not unlimited.
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yet it is a FUNDAMENTAL right, one literally and clearly enumerated in the Constitution. Beware how you infringe on rights, even those you don't care for... for you set the precedent for infringements on other rights you may cherish.
 
Goshin said:
yet it is a FUNDAMENTAL right, one literally and clearly enumerated in the Constitution. Beware how you infringe on rights, even those you don't care for... for you set the precedent for infringements on other rights you may cherish.
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yes, the right to possess a firearm and bear it, is a fundamental right.

but it is NO greater than all of the other Constitutionally guarunteed rights.

and it is NOT an unlimitied right. it is NOT beyond any & all regulations and restrictions.
 
DVSentinel said:
Unless you own a large enough piece of property and build your own range, you cannot practice long distance shooting. Most ranges I have found are 30 to 100 yards. I did find one that had 250 yrds once. I have heard that south of Shreveport, there is a 1000 yrd range, I am going to try to find it someday and see what their range fees are. Of course, due to driving distance and the price of gas, I won't be able to visit it much.
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I am not completely familiar with the Shreveport area, don't get out that way much but there are a few long ranges here. It's true enough that getting distance practice in is definitely a hard thing to come by.
 
LaMidRighter said:
I am not completely familiar with the Shreveport area, don't get out that way much but there are a few long ranges here. It's true enough that getting distance practice in is definitely a hard thing to come by.
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Plenty to be had in west Texas. Lots of desolate desert land out that way.
 
Goshin said:
yet it is a FUNDAMENTAL right, one literally and clearly enumerated in the Constitution. Beware how you infringe on rights, even those you don't care for... for you set the precedent for infringements on other rights you may cherish.
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Except for felons, the insane, children without parental consent, etc. There are lots of people who do not have the right to own a firearm.
 
Cephus said:
Except for felons, the insane, children without parental consent, etc. There are lots of people who do not have the right to own a firearm.
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These are restrictions that are...

Absolutely necessary to society
Narrowly defined
and the least restrictive means of achieving the end.

Therefore they meet strict scrutiny, therefore I'm okay with that.
 
Goshin said:
These are restrictions that are...

Absolutely necessary to society
Narrowly defined
and the least restrictive means of achieving the end.

Therefore they meet strict scrutiny, therefore I'm okay with that.
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Yet none of them appear in the Constitution at all. You seem to want to pick and choose what parts of the Constitution you want and what parts you're willing to look the other way on. If you're going to go strictly by the Constitution, felons, insane people and children have just as much right to own firearms as you do.

I just think it's funny how people can declare "these are absolute, fundamental, inalienable rights... except where I don't want them to be."
 
Cephus said:
Yet none of them appear in the Constitution at all. You seem to want to pick and choose what parts of the Constitution you want and what parts you're willing to look the other way on. If you're going to go strictly by the Constitution, felons, insane people and children have just as much right to own firearms as you do.

I just think it's funny how people can declare "these are absolute, fundamental, inalienable rights... except where I don't want them to be."
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You're confusing me with someone else. Of course there are certain restrictions on all rights... but any such restrictions should have to meet strict scrutiny.

Things like the AWB do not.
 
Cephus said:
Yet none of them appear in the Constitution at all. You seem to want to pick and choose what parts of the Constitution you want and what parts you're willing to look the other way on. If you're going to go strictly by the Constitution, felons, insane people and children have just as much right to own firearms as you do.

I just think it's funny how people can declare "these are absolute, fundamental, inalienable rights... except where I don't want them to be."
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I agree the problem in this case is that even rights have restrictions when it bumps heads with public welfare or safety etc. Like you can't yell "fire!" in a crowded movie theater etc.
 
I own a couple of assault rifles for fun. Even though I shoot them for a living, its still fun to go out in the front yard and crank a mag or two off. Plus, you can't beat it for shooting pests such as racoons and possums. On another note, I don't think I should be able to own a 100 round drum for either of them. Alright TurtleDude, lets hear it. I didn't continue our debate in the other thread about this.
 
I have an M1 Carbine because it is an histroic piece of WWII, so I didn't vote because my reason is not included.
 
Catawba said:
Let your racist flag fly man!
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THe lefties spew "racist" all the time but this is beyond moronic. The million Moron march was mainly white housewives
 
iacardsfan said:
Constitutional Right my ass, when the Constitution was written we didn't have Assault Riffles. Everybody had guns because they hunted for their food, they didn't have high tech homes where they could protect themselves, and they did not live in an age where they could just fire off a nuke to protect themselves. Times have changed, I'm not saying that gun laws would prevent these shootings, but what I am saying is that not having these laws in place gives people a more easy means of doing so. If somebody were to obtain Assault Riffles illegally, we know that the only thing that can be done is to step up enforcement, there is no question whether if we had a law in place would it have stopped this event. Nobody needs an Assault Riffle for protection, and if you do, then you have bigger problems on your hands.
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Mindless psychobabble-so many errors

As long as there are people who think they should decide what I need, I need as much firepower as I can legally own.
 
jet57 said:
I have an M1 Carbine because it is an histroic piece of WWII, so I didn't vote because my reason is not included.
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the M2 was arguably the first modern assault rifle

great little gun-Bought a commercial (junk) copy when I was a law student. Got a hand built one on like new receiver by Fulton Armory about 25 years ago and then several CMP guns. My son started shooting one at 8-its an easy weapon for kids and ladies

I am always on the lookout for sales on 30 MI carbine-ammo-fortunately one of my dad's friends had a ton and when he moved into a retirement home he asked me to "dispose of all this ammo" which was fine with me since he had 2000 rounds that still worked
 
The Giant Noodle said:
So you were there? :D Welcome to Instant Rimshot
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YOu must have been ignorant of all the coverage. I think Catawba-in his haste to call me a racist, confused the "million mom march" which was led by a Clinton operative and was mostly white with the Million man march which was an African American gathering


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Million_Man_March


Million Mom March - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


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Jerry said:
The intentional homicide rate shows North America is lower than Eastern Europe, and also lower than the world average, and FAR lower than MANY other regions in the world.
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Someone already made that point, but comparing the US to third world countries only indicates that we are not as bad as some third world countries.

If we compare apples to apples however as the more recent James Brady study has done with countries of similar wealth and population size, the US is way above everyone else in the the number of intentional firearm homicides per 1 million population.
 
Μολὼν λαβέ;1060743896 said:
What "Fast and Furious" did prove is the best way to obtain a straw purchased gun is through the US Government.

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Would this be with guns that are "only cosmetically different" than legal guns? If so what's the beef?
 
Catawba said:
Someone already made that point, but comparing the US to third world countries only indicates that we are not as bad as some third world countries.

If we compare apples to apples however as the more recent James Brady study has done with countries of similar wealth and population size, the US is way above everyone else in the the number of intentional firearm homicides per 1 million population.
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you can rant all you want about different countries but you seem to ignore the facts that as Britain banned guns and Australia followed suit concerning many weapons, their crime rates did not decrease but got worse while here in the states we liberalized carry permits and the Clinton moronic gun ban sunset and crime went down

Have you figured out the difference between the Million Mom march vs the Million Man March?
 
Catawba said:
Would this be with guns that are "only cosmetically different" than legal guns? If so what's the beef?
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most of us oppose stupid gun laws that are motivated by stupid anti gunners
 
TurtleDude said:
you can rant all you want about different countries but you seem to ignore the facts that as Britain banned guns and Australia followed suit concerning many weapons, their crime rates did not decrease but got worse while here in the states we liberalized carry permits and the Clinton moronic gun ban sunset and crime went down
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As I've shown you before, when we compare the rates between the US and Britain we can see they have 1.6 intentional homicides committed with firearms compared to the US at 32.5 intentional homicides committed with firearms.

Have you figured out the difference between the Million Mom march vs the Million Man March?
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You didn't say Million Mom march, but if you think your saying it now has fooled people, just keep right on thinking that if you wish.
 
TheDemSocialist said:
So this is about Che all the sudden? :roll:

But Che actually thought people should own arms, to 1)revolution and 2)protect the revolution..

But this isnt about Che Guevara.
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No it is not about that dead guy, its actually about the Constitutional rights of Americans.
 
TurtleDude said:
most of us oppose stupid gun laws that are motivated by stupid anti gunners
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So what is the big deal about the Mexican drug cartel getting access to assault rifles, if they are only "cosmetically different" than legal guns?
 
Catawba said:
As I've shown you before, when we compare the rates between the US and Britain we can see they have 1.6 intentional homicides committed with firearms compared to the US at 32.5 intentional homicides committed with firearms.



You didn't say Million Mom march, but if you think your saying it now has fooled people, just keep right on thinking that if you wish.
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anyone who understand gun issues knows that MillionMoron march would refer to the anti gun march

Your rants about England are imbecilic --they ban guns-violence goes up, we liberalize carrying guns, violence goes down

england had almost no gun crime years ago before they started banning guns

anyone who can rationally analyze the facts realizes gun control has made England LESS SAFE
 
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