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Recent content by B'smith

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    [W:691] Gun control

    While Scalia may have opined the quote you cited at one time, please note that, when it was important, Scalia supported an individual's right to own a firearm when he wrote the majority opinion in D.C. v. Heller: " Scalia wrote the majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller, which found...
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    [W:691] Gun control

    I fully support everyone's right to criticize or support whatever they chose without censorship. However, I do feel that anti 2nd Amendment sentiments are pervasive throughout MSM and that it has become socially acceptable to use one's 1st Amendment Rights to revile the 2nd Amendment. Put more...
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    [W:691] Gun control

    I hope you don't think that I have lied about you or have in any way misrepresented your views. Please correct me if I am wrong but it seems like you support gun control initiatives like those in other countries which are clearly unconstitutional in the US and far from "reasonable". Meanwhile...
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    Can you recommend an UNbiased news source?

    Just as other people have suggested, you are very unlikely to find a news source that is " 100% objective " & that includes Wikipedia. What I do is to read a variety of news sources with differing biases and assume that the truth is somewhere in the middle. While I have a wide variety of...
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    You’re in Nazi Germany...

    I'm afraid your'e mistaken. As long as victors write the history, most people will remain effectively deceived about both the causes & realities of both WW 1 & WW 2. I feel certain that most anyone who endured the miseries of post WW 1 Germany, Bolshevik anarchy, starvation, disease etc would...
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    We're going in circles. America is nothing like what are frequently cited as "Developed Countries" just as "Developed Countries" is a very vague & subjective term. If draconian gun laws worked in reducing gun deaths, then it should work in ALL countries with gun bans/gun control. However...
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    You asked for an example of untraceable Ghost Guns in Europe & I provided you with just one example. I don't know how pervasive Ghost Guns are in Europe but my point is that gun registration schemes are ineffective in keeping guns out of the hands of criminals.
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    I don't see why not as the Turks seized a shipment of them last year: Turkish custom officials seize 41 'ghost guns' - Anadolu Agency https://www.aa.com.tr/en/turkey/turkish-custom-officials-seize...ghost-guns/972135
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    So, if you attempt to ban private gun sales (good luck with that), then criminals will simply resort to Ghost Guns. What people who advocate for more gun bans / stricter gun control etc fail to grasp is the simple reality that criminals don't obey laws & will always be able to get guns.
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    My suggestion is that people are more violent in warmer latitudes & that hot weather tends to incite more violent behavior. Therefore, claiming that countries in colder climates (i.e. "Developed Countries") have fewer homicides than the US because of draconian gun laws is a false comparison in...
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    You're wrong again. Where there are registration laws, criminals simply resort to easily available "Ghost Guns" "The Rise of Untraceable ‘Ghost Guns’" https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-rise-of-untraceable-ghost-guns-1515061800 EXCERPT "An underground gun-making industry that enables criminals...
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    You're wrong. Louisiana, Mississippi and even Illinois are among the several states with a higher homicide rate than Alaska as per 2016.(1) If you'll look at the map (1), you'll see that the states in the southern latitudes generally have higher homicide rates than those in the northern...
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    Both "rule of law" and "Developed Countries" are both vague & completely subjective terms. Of course the over 80 countries with higher gun death rates than the US have laws & especially stringent gun laws that simply do not have an impact on human behavior. As I noted in an earlier Post, all...
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    All countries other than the US have stricter gun control because none of them have America's equivalent of a 2nd Amendment. According to your logic, the US should lead the world in homicides yet there are over 80 countries with stricter gun control AND higher homicide rates.....Why?
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    Guns are killing us not protecting us

    That doesn't mean that enacting strict gun laws would mean fewer gun deaths. At any rate, we are unlikely to see any significant gun control grabs in the near future with Trump appointed judges in SCOTUS & elsewhere.
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