(08-29-2018, 10:57 AM)Byron LeftTown Wrote:

(08-29-2018, 06:24 AM)NYC4jags Wrote: ...The government coming for your guns is just something you're being told to fear by the gun lobby. And many folks, including my family and friends,  are all hook, line and sinker swallowing that crap.  I find it truly odd.

If you think the complete disarming of the civilian populace is not the agenda you either do not understand plain English or you are a willing participant in a treasonous deception to rob the people of their natural, civil and Constitutional right of self defense.

So which is it?

I do not believe that is the agenda of those allowed by our system of checks and balances to ultimately represent any large number of constituents. 

I do trust the system of checks and balances we have in place. It has proven effective time and time again to help moderate any "agendas" or trends in legislation that drift too far into dangerous territory. 

Extreme measures are difficult to implement in our system for a reason and the system works pretty darn well. 
It's the same system that kept Obama from going in a far more socialist direction than he did, and the same system that will likely prevent the current POTUS from building a border wall anywhere near the scale he's proposed. 

A confiscation legislation would be FAR, FAR more difficult to pass than many of the things we see commonly shut down by designed partisan voting.

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