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    Default New Zealand's semi-automatic rifle ban

    Gun nuts always tell us that more gun control would lead to a dictatorship because the people would be unable to fight back against the government.
    New Zealand is set to ban all semi-automatic rifles. Who wants to theorize how gun nuts will explain why New Zealand didn't become a dictatorship?

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    They will have fewer mass shootings and less danger to the citizens. That is so un-American. We don't like fewer shootings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Gun nuts always tell us that more gun control would lead to a dictatorship because the people would be unable to fight back against the government.
    New Zealand is set to ban all semi-automatic rifles. Who wants to theorize how gun nuts will explain why New Zealand didn't become a dictatorship?
    Bullshit strawman argument

    These things don’t happen overnight

    God bless the 2nd Amendment

    I went out and bought another AR15 just for shits and giggles. Didn’t need it. Just wanted it

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Gun nuts always tell us that more gun control would lead to a dictatorship because the people would be unable to fight back against the government.
    New Zealand is set to ban all semi-automatic rifles. Who wants to theorize how gun nuts will explain why New Zealand didn't become a dictatorship?
    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    They will have fewer mass shootings and less danger to the citizens. That is so un-American. We don't like fewer shootings.
    But isn’t America under a threat of tyrannical dictatorship right now? Isn’t our President the “Orange Trump” and his family taking over America? Aren’t they arming their new army the KKK and all of those deplorable other racist? Aren’t they getting ready to take you good leftist Democrats guns? How are you gonna defend the country if they take your guns?

    I think our nation’s founders were much, much, much smarter than a gang of wimpy-assed leftist in today’s world.

    “An armed people are a free people.” (George Washington)

    "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
    - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
    "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
    - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787

    "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
    - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

    “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

    "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
    - Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787
    "Government is force by definition and corruption by nature. The bigger the government, the greater the force and the greater the corruption."

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nordberg View Post
    They will have fewer mass shootings and less danger to the citizens. That is so un-American. We don't like fewer shootings.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Gun nuts always tell us that more gun control would lead to a dictatorship because the people would be unable to fight back against the government.
    New Zealand is set to ban all semi-automatic rifles. Who wants to theorize how gun nuts will explain why New Zealand didn't become a dictatorship?
    Do you support this? Would you like to see all semi automatic rifles banned in the USA?
    Every life matters

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    Quote Originally Posted by Teflon Don View Post

    These things don’t happen overnight
    Fair enough. How long do you think it will take before New Zealand is a totalitarian state?

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    Quote Originally Posted by countryboy View Post
    Do you support this? Would you like to see all semi automatic rifles banned in the USA?
    I wouldn't mind much either way, but I do think we need a lot more gun control in America.
    And no, I don't think that will lead to Fascism or Communism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    But isn’t America under a threat of tyrannical dictatorship right now? Isn’t our President the “Orange Trump” and his family taking over America? Aren’t they arming their new army the KKK and all of those deplorable other racist? Aren’t they getting ready to take you good leftist Democrats guns? How are you gonna defend the country if they take your guns?

    I think our nation’s founders were much, much, much smarter than a gang of wimpy-assed leftist in today’s world.

    “An armed people are a free people.” (George Washington)

    "No free man shall ever be debarred the use of arms."
    - Thomas Jefferson, Virginia Constitution, Draft 1, 1776
    "What country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance. Let them take arms."
    - Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, December 20, 1787

    "The laws that forbid the carrying of arms are laws of such a nature. They disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes.... Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than to prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed man."
    - Thomas Jefferson, Commonplace Book (quoting 18th century criminologist Cesare Beccaria), 1774-1776

    “They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
    - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

    "Before a standing army can rule, the people must be disarmed, as they are in almost every country in Europe. The supreme power in America cannot enforce unjust laws by the sword; because the whole body of the people are armed, and constitute a force superior to any band of regular troops."
    - Noah Webster, An Examination of the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution, October 10, 1787
    That's pretty funny, obvious an effort taken off of a NRA or similar website owned by the gun manufacturers, do you know how easy it is to cherry pick anything some Founding Father said to frame an opinion?

    If the Founding Fathers meant for everyone to have a gun why did they purposely add the prefatory clause to the Second Amendment? They didn't have to, but they did, obviously for some reason

    And the point gun advocates never get, or just flat out refuse to accept, any Constitutional right can be regulated and restricted, none of them are absolute, have never been, nor will ever be, just a fact

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    Quote Originally Posted by Robo View Post
    But isn’t America under a threat of tyrannical dictatorship right now? Isn’t our President the “Orange Trump” and his family taking over America? Aren’t they arming their new army the KKK and all of those deplorable other racist? Aren’t they getting ready to take you good leftist Democrats guns? How are you gonna defend the country if they take your guns?
    Historically speaking, an armed population means there is more of a chance of a country becoming a dictatorship. While I don't think Trump's supporters are all racists, most of them do support Trump's Fascist direction. And like Trump himself said, "I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad." This is exactly what happened in Russia, which lead to the Soviet Union.
    As of now, America is closer to being a dictatorship because we have a wannabe dictator in office and a bunch of drooling idiots with guns who want to keep him there.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    I wouldn't mind much either way, but I do think we need a lot more gun control in America.
    And no, I don't think that will lead to Fascism or Communism.
    Of course not, but nothing meaningful is going happen on the Federal level, if four and five year old kids getting massacred by semi-automatic weapons didn't get Washington to act nothing will, half are owned by the gun manufacturers, and the majority of the rest don't have the courage

    Reform will, and is beginning, on the State and local level, look at the States today that have stricter gun laws and the majority also have less gun violence, and the opposite is also true, which is fine, let them slaughter each other with their toys

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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    Of course not, but nothing meaningful is going happen on the Federal level, if four and five year old kids getting massacred by semi-automatic weapons didn't get Washington to act nothing will, half are owned by the gun manufacturers, and the majority of the rest don't have the courage
    Yeah, we're probably just going to have to wait for the Boomers to die out before we have sensible gun policies.

    Reform will, and is beginning, on the State and local level, look at the States today that have stricter gun laws and the majority also have less gun violence, and the opposite is also true, which is fine, let them slaughter each other with their toys
    I'd feel the same way if there wasn't so many innocent people including kids that are getting killed because of this gun fetishism.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    I wouldn't mind much either way, but I do think we need a lot more gun control in America.
    And no, I don't think that will lead to Fascism or Communism.
    What gun control measures would have prevented the New Zealand tragedy? Doesn't Norway have extreme gun control? What measure would have prevented their mass shooting tragedy?

    Las Vegas; what gun control measure would have prevented it?
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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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    Quote Originally Posted by archives View Post
    That's pretty funny, obvious an effort taken off of a NRA or similar website owned by the gun manufacturers, do you know how easy it is to cherry pick anything some Founding Father said to frame an opinion?

    If the Founding Fathers meant for everyone to have a gun why did they purposely add the prefatory clause to the Second Amendment? They didn't have to, but they did, obviously for some reason

    And the point gun advocates never get, or just flat out refuse to accept, any Constitutional right can be regulated and restricted, none of them are absolute, have never been, nor will ever be, just a fact
    Morons on the left cannot get their heads around the concept that Government is the evil in society and one that needs to be held at bay. Alas, being uneducated low IQ dullards, they think Government is great and we need more of the nanny state....except when Trump is in charge, then Government is bad.

    In any tyranny, the first thing the State does is confiscate the citizens weaponry. It is apparent that because yo are an uneducated dolt, you have no historical knowledge to comprehend why and armed citizenry is a good thing.

    Does France have very strict gun laws? Yes or no?
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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Historically speaking, an armed population means there is more of a chance of a country becoming a dictatorship.
    That is historically false and moronic. It is the exact opposite. The first thing authoritarian states do is take arms away from the citizens. An armed citizenry is dangerous to totalitarians. Do you think Kim Jung wants an armed populace? How about China?

    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    While I don't think Trump's supporters are all racists, most of them do support Trump's Fascist direction.
    Really? What has Trump done that is Fascist?

    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    And like Trump himself said, "I have the tough people, but they don't play it tough until they go to a certain point, and then it would be very bad, very bad."
    So words strike fear into the hearts of low IQ liberals? What did you think when Obama stated he didn't need Congress? Were you okay with that?

    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    This is exactly what happened in Russia, which lead to the Soviet Union.
    No it is not; and making such moronic claims paint you as an uneducated buffoon.

    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    As of now, America is closer to being a dictatorship because we have a wannabe dictator in office and a bunch of drooling idiots with guns who want to keep him there.
    Aside from the glaring ignorance of your statement, precisely what has Trump done to bring us closer to a dictatorship?

    It's hard to take such moronic nonsense seriously.
    "When government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny."


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    Unless you just can't stand the idea of "ni**ers" teaching white kids.


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