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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    U.S. Deserves A Leader As Good As New Zealand Prime Minister: NYT Editorial Board
    Was this from 3 years ago? We currently have a far better leader than those sheep fucking kiwis.

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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    The militia started with a populace that was already well armed.

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    U.S. Deserves A Leader As Good As New Zealand Prime Minister: NYT Editorial Board
    it can happen tomorrow......just get a one way airplane ticket to NZ........ask for asylum.....bingo, she's your leader.......

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    Days it took New Zealand to change their gun laws: 6
    Days since:
    Pittsburgh Synagogue - 146
    Parkland - 401
    Sutherland Springs - 502
    Las Vegas - 537
    Pulse Nightclub - 1,013
    San Bernardino - 1,206
    Sandy Hook - 2,289
    Aurora - 2,436
    Virginia Tech - 4,358
    Columbine - 7,276

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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    Days it took New Zealand to change their gun laws: 6
    Days since:
    Pittsburgh Synagogue - 146
    Parkland - 401
    Sutherland Springs - 502
    Las Vegas - 537
    Pulse Nightclub - 1,013
    San Bernardino - 1,206
    Sandy Hook - 2,289
    Aurora - 2,436
    Virginia Tech - 4,358
    Columbine - 7,276
    And I’m proud of our [conservative] lawmakers for sticking to their guns in the face of tremendous political pressure and upholding the 2nd amendment. Yes, pun intended. No law outside of an outright European style ban would prevent such atrocities.

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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    Jacinda Ardern “has shown the way” for other world leaders by banning military-style weapons after the mass shooting in Christchurch, the board says.

    The New York Times editorial board praised New Zealand’s crackdown on military-style weapons after last week’s mass shooting as the U.S. neglects to take such action after dozens of them.

    On Thursday, in an op-ed titled “America Deserves a Leader as Good as Jacinda Ardern,” the board applauded the New Zealand prime minister’s ban on the guns in the wake of the attack on two Christchurch mosques in which 50 people were killed.

    “That attitude stood in stark contrast to the way the National Rifle Association and its political allies in the United States have resisted any restrictions on weapons like the AR-15, the semiautomatic rifle used in several mass killings,” the Times board wrote, denouncing U.S. politicians’ ties to the gun lobby.

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    Of course, there's no evidence that any gun control law has ever made things better, including bans on "military style" weapons, whatever that means. The only evidence there is is that gun control laws only ‘work' if there was no need for them in the first place.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    We do, but ain't happening, too much private money and special interests involved in American politics, no one who can actually initiate change is ever going to take a courageous stand on an issue.

    Guns is a good example, if first, second, and third grade kids getting massacred by semi-automatic weapons didn't do it nothing will
    What that got us was wonders like gun-free school zones, which only appear to have made things worse. What we need to do is research what motivates mass killers, and what we can do about that. Stricter gun laws will just lead to even more deaths using the many other ways there are to kill people.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    How many times do you have to explain the Constitution to people that tell everyone they love the Constitution?

    I won't even go into the prefatory clause again, goes right over their head, but the fact is no Constitutional right, none, zero, zilch, is absolute, they all can, and are, regulated

    End of argument, if it ever was one
    The prefatory clause doesn't mean what you want it to mean. And the 2nd Amendment is the only one with absolute language like "shall not be infringed".

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    No, there is no "it could be," you said nothing was ever changed, so yes or no, the Third Amendment is still applicable today?
    Of course it's still applicable today. The fact that it's there is why we abandoned that practice.

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    But can't one hand carry a rocket launcher? And you told us the Second Amendment "protects any hand carried weapon that the US Army has access to"
    That was the original intent. But we've lost a lot of what the 2nd was intended to accomplish, largely to justify laws intended to keep the newly-freed slaves from being able to defend themselves.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MASON View Post
    So that's a no!So the first amendment doesn't apply to every weapon.
    No one needs an assault rifle.
    You have no idea what an assault rifle actually is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rjhenn View Post
    You have no idea what an assault rifle actually is.

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    Quote Originally Posted by signalmankenneth View Post
    No twisting required. The militia generally meant all adult male citizens, with a few exceptions. "Well regulated" means well trained or smoothly functioning. It has nothing to do with laws or regulations. It's your desired interpretation that's the twisted one


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    Quote Originally Posted by leaningright View Post
    And I’m proud of our [conservative] lawmakers for sticking to their guns in the face of tremendous political pressure and upholding the 2nd amendment. Yes, pun intended. No law outside of an outright European style ban would prevent such atrocities.
    There's no evidence that such a ban would prevent such atrocities either.

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