Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Snit Newsgroups: alt.atheism,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,talk.politics.guns,alt.checkmate Subject: Re: Fact: Gun Ownership Is All That Stands Between Being Safe and Imminent Slaughter By Other Americans Carrying Guns Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2018 20:24:43 -0700 Lines: 58 Message-ID: References: <2ef0d415-ec91-4536-9483-54677a43a873@googlegroups.com> <1274428934567726606.289811ted-sam.street@news.alt.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net wfiTwJfKzGM2I/wTMWiIOweusgR9hSqCSfGLt+hpEdimiG1A8s Cancel-Lock: sha1:At50A0KPIGuxZ2XOiv2o5fMSGsg= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.14; rv:60.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/60.4.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Xref: csiph.com alt.atheism:2571331 alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:2109681 talk.politics.guns:1151176 alt.checkmate:242731 On 12/28/18 7:50 PM, max headroom wrote: > In news:g8nnkpFmbp6U2@mid.individual.net, Snit typed: > >> On 12/28/18 3:18 PM, Ted wrote: >>> Malte Runz wrote: >>>> On Friday, December 28, 2018 at 2:55:43 AM UTC, Cloud Hobbit wrote: > >>>> (snip) > >>>>> Nobody will ever be able to stop Americans who want guns from being able to get them. ... > >>>> Good Americans with guns would be able to. > >>>> Jokes aside ... > >>>>> ... 3d printing is making sure of that. > >>>> So, is it futile to try to reduce the gun violence in the US? > >>> Absolutely not. Let's try to reduce violence. (But why just 'gun violence' >>> unless there's an ulterior motive involved?) > >> The focus on guns in this group is by design. > >>> But the 2nd Amendment was very clearly written to connect our gun rights >>> with "a well-regulated militia", meaning, in part, that measures should >>> indeed be taken to prevent improper use of arms. Indeed, the NRA of 80 >>> years ago was heavily involved with gun safety regulations. > >> Yup. > >>> Problem is, nowadays, there are cocksuckers who don't want us to have *any* >>> guns and they're trying to gradually whittle down those rights. > >> Who? > >>> So that >>> provokes a reaction from the other side to oppose all suggestions of gun >>> control, even those that would be almost universally deemed sensible 80 >>> years ago. > >> I think it is the other way around... you have an extremist group that >> benefits from gun deaths pretty much writing our gun laws. Others >> respond to that. > > You must be referring to the Democrat party vs. the American people. Your misunderstanding is interesting. Can you explain what lead you to it? -- Personal attacks from those who troll show their own insecurity. They cannot use reason to show the message to be wrong so they try to feel somehow superior by attacking the messenger. They cling to their attacks and ignore the message time and time again.