(12-08-2024, 09:56 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(12-08-2024, 03:21 AM)TDOSS Wrote: Care to challenge it? Your other MAGA buddies are doing a poor job.

Wanna give it a shot or are you just going to throw personal attacks?

Referring to your original post, you're apparently unaware of mandatory background checks and waiting periods before purchasing a handgun.  Beyond the background check, what "test" would you recommend prior to purchase?  Also, why do you label everyone who supports the 2nd to be a gun nut?  

P.S.   "just what a few guys wrote down 250 years ago" is the foundation of our democracy and generally considered somewhat sacred.  You'll need to get the Supreme Court in agreement with you before you start banning guns.  Speaking of bans, what's your well-considered long-range plan?  There's currently a "ban" on drugs, but it hasn't really deterred the flow into the country.  What will make guns any different?

This is the same 2A purist [BLEEP] I see posted by every gun-nut. When a crazy 18-year-old can come into a gun store, purchase an assault weapon with 100's of rounds and no red flags are triggered, then he goes and murders a couple of dozen 3rd-graders something is very, very wrong.

There are more guns than people in America than any other 1st world country and more mass shootings per capita. The 2A was written 100's of years ago before there were automatic and assault weapons.

You're welcome.

Quote:I have a friend who supports it, and he doesn't even own a gun.  It's like assuming everyone who supports abortion, is okay with late-term abortion.

You made several blanket statements and opinions designed to inflame. You kind of defeat the purpose of your statements by giving us an anecdotal statement of a friend who doesn't own firearms and then a statement about making assumptions...and then go on to make several assumptions.

So, if you really wanted to make an argument about gun control that wasn't designed as a straw-man argument filled with assumptions and opinions designed to score political points so you could feel like the victim that you aren't...you wouldn't be talking about banning firearms.

Why?

Because while there are certainly a vocal minority who want to ban firearm, the majority of us on the left don't. What we want is regulation. The point for your side of the issue (if you are actually serious about it) is to argue why there shouldn't be regulation, or very little. So, instead of arguing the chicken-little-point-scoring-they're-out-to-get-our-guns approach and making incorrect assumptions...focus more on why you don't think there should be any regulations and if there are what they should look like (as the only reasonable argument you presented in your post).

I suspect, though, that you are more concerned on scoring points off of those who don't know better so that you can feel better about yourself (or try to legitimize your victimhood).

SIDE NOTE: Are you aware of the ASSUME formula? You made a lot of assumptions, so I'm wondering if you do. Just in case, let me spell it out for you. When you ASSUME...you make an [BLEEP]...out of U...and ME. Ok, just in case you never learned that.

Quote:What's wrong with making America great again?  Shouldn't that be the goal of every citizen?

When was America great in the past and when did it stop being great requiring it to be made great “again”?

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