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The majority of gun owners lack the intellectual capacity to want to give women back their own bodies and give their communities a saner, safer
environment. When people support the consensus of the least educated, they seem proud to admit it!
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You can’t cry when I bet you supported women who didn’t want Obamacare. You know. The ones that got fined for keeping their bodies?. But abortion? My body my body. Hypocrites
 
"Fined"? Are you referring to the ACA fine against free riding?

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The difference between healthcare insurance and broccoli markets

By Elvin Lim Democrats and the Obama administration have seriously if not fatally fumbled on the simple answer to a question Justice Scalia posed: "Could you define the market -- everybody has to buy food sooner or later, so you define the market as food, therefore, everybody is in the market...
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"What he ought to have said is that people can get healthcare without having to pay for it and the rest of us who do buy insurance must. Those of us who are paying for health insurance are forced to subsidize those who do not. This, if anything, is what would invite government regulation.

Recognizing that the health-care industry suffers from a free-riding problem helps us pinpoint two general solutions.
(1) We get rid of the law that creates the free-riding problem.
(2) We enact a law that closes the free-riding loophole — and that is the individual mandate of the Affordable Healthcare Act, or “Obamacare.”

What is the law that creates the free-riding problem? It is the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA) of 1986 which requires that hospitals provide emergency care to anyone seeking it regardless of ability to pay. Now, why would millions of Americans buy health insurance voluntarily if we can get it for free? Actually, this is the law that small government conservatives ought to be challenging. This is what causes the problem; Obamacare is only the fix..."

Reagan :
 
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Citizen said:
Hmmm…did you read the part about certain types of firearms and I would like to add murders and gun deaths are down
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What did the trend in the US homicide rate say from 1993 to 2014 look like, where over 250 million guns were added to our totals?
 
Citizen said:
As I said before. Limiting gas stoves in new construction is not banning gas stoves.
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'Banning gas stoves isn't banning gas stoves'? Weird.

Citizen said:
They have been doing that for years in Maryland due to danger and expense

www.cbsnews.com

Three workers hospitalized from steam pipe explosion in downtown Baltimore, officials say

Crews were working to install a gas line when a water main was struck and broke, leading to a steam pipe explosion Sunday evening in downtown Baltimore.
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www.nbcnews.com

Cut gas pipe found in basement of Maryland apartment building destroyed in explosion, officials say

Officials believe a maintenance worker was doing plumbing work at the Friendly Garden Apartments prior to Thursday's explosion.
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www.nbcwashington.com

Worker Accidentally Cut Gas Line, Led to Silver Spring Explosion: Officials

A building maintenance worker accidentally cut a gas line at the Silver Spring, Maryland, apartment complex that exploded and burned on Thursday, officials said in an update Monday. Investigators believe that accident led to the blast but say they do not expect to be able to identify “the exact...
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eohrnberger said:
'Banning gas stoves isn't banning gas stoves'? Weird.
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What is it about limiting gas stoves in new construction is not the same as banning gas stoves don’t you understand
 
Rucker61 said:
What did the trend in the US homicide rate say from 1993 to 2014 look like, where over 250 million guns were added to our totals?
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Ahem!



Gun ownership ......2018 Gun deaths per 100,000 ....... 4 year college degrees ......incarceration per 100,000 pop.
Wyoming 66.2% ...........................17.5 .......................................................... 29.2% ............................. 850
Alaska 64.5% ...................... ..........23.0.............................................................32,8% ....... .......................718
Idaho 60.1% ..................................14.6............................................................. 30.7% .............................. 761
West Virginia 58.5% ............17.5 ............................................... 24.1% .................... 731
Arkansas 57.2% ......................17.7 ............................................... 25.3% .................... 942
Alabama 55.5% ..................... 21.4 ............................................ 27.4% ..................... 938
Oklahoma 54.7% ................... 19.6 ........................................... 27.9% ...................... 993
Louisiana 53.1% .................... 21.2 ............................................ 26.4% .................... 1,094
Vermont 50.5% .......................11.0 ............................................ 44.4% ....................... 288
Georgia 49.2% ..................................14.9 ........................................................ 34.7% ............................. 968
New Mexico 46.2% ......................., 18.2 ......................................................... 30.1% ............................ 733
Texas 45.7% ............................ 12.1 ............................................ 33.1% ...................... 840
Florida 35.3% .................................... 12.6 ......................................................... 33.2% ............................. 795
California 28.3% ...................... 7.9 .............................................. 36.2% ...................... 549
Illinois 27.8% ......................... 11.6 ............................................... 37.1% .....,,.............. 497
Connecticut 23.6% ......................... 4.6 ........................................................... 42.1% ............................. 394
New York 19.9% ................... 4.4 ................................................. 39.9% ...................... 376
New Jersey 14.7% .....................,..... 5.5.............................................................. 43.1% ............................. 341
Massachusetts 14.7% .................. 4.4 ............................................................... 46.6% ............................. 275

Guess which states are spending hundreds of millions to add prison beds and which states are not.



 
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Citizen said:
Hmmm…did you read the part about certain types of firearms and I would like to add murders and gun deaths are down
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In the citation the only call out for 'type' of firearms was: "After Port Arthur, Mr Howard banned semi-automatic firearms"

Semi-automatic firearms includes anything from a 22 rifle, any pistol, including a revolver, and the largest elephant gun you've ever seen, the criteria being one trigger pull, one shot fired, the firearm cycles loading the next round.

That definition includes pretty much every firearm other than a bolt action rifle, so pretty much all inclusive.

Or were you talking about a different 'certain type' of firearm?
 
Citizen said:
What is it about limiting gas stoves in new construction is not the same as banning gas stoves don’t you understand
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So allowing current owners of AR-15s to retain them while banning future owners isn't a ban?
 
VySky said:
Don't believe that lie. Even Obama thinks we should follow what Australia has done.
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Horseshit
Obama did nothing about guns during 8 years in office.
All of your posts here are worthless, unsubstantiated garbage - no matter the subject.
 
SMTA said:
Horseshit
Obama did nothing about guns during 8 years in office.
All of your posts here are worthless, unsubstantiated garbage - no matter the subject.
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Hello...


 
BirdinHand said:
Don’t care.

They haven’t been out of the safes in years. If it meant no more kids bleeding out in schools, they can have them.
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How many years?

Our guns aren't "toys". Every year, they come out of their safe and are used during hunting seasons. They are a tool. They allow my husband and myself to kill animals in order to put meat in the freezer for the rest of the year. We hunt deer, turkey, pheasant, etc.
 
BirdinHand said:
None of the guns in my house would fall under a gun ban as has been proposed by anyone.

They are predominantly shotguns and hunting rifles.

The same guns ARE allowed in Canada, Australia, etc.

So, I’d sit back and laugh and watch people freak out.
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Are ARs allowed in Canada and Australia? They've damn sure been proposed to fall under gun bans here.

I live in a house with more rifles, shotguns, and even ARs than I care to count...
 
VySky said:
If Gavin Newsom snubs out Biden in 24, like they did Bernie years ago, and he comes for your guns?

Will you willfully give them up? Or did you just suffer a horrible boating accident? Sold them all in a face to face deal in Tennessee?

Do you think most American will turn over their guns?

What say you?
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If the government comes for my guns I will not resist.
I will simply give them away to the wonderful inner city gangs.
 
RF667799 said:
I live in a house with more rifles, shotguns, and even ARs than I care to count...
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Husband sold those back to the dealer, didn’t like them and had no reason for them.

So…thanks for the memory, but we don’t have those any longer. 😂
 
RF667799 said:
How many years?

Our guns aren't "toys". Every year, they come out of their safe and are used during hunting seasons. They are a tool. They allow my husband and myself to kill animals in order to put meat in the freezer for the rest of the year. We hunt deer, turkey, pheasant, etc.
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Business has been incredibly busy for the past several years, so he hasn’t gone hunting at all.

He used to go annually.
 
BirdinHand said:
Husband sold those back to the dealer, didn’t like them and had no reason for them.

So…thanks for the memory, but we don’t have those any longer. 😂
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Right.
 
BirdinHand said:
Business has been incredibly busy for the past several years, so he hasn’t gone hunting at all.

He used to go annually.
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And you as well. Shooting pen raised pheasants in New Jersey. But sure.

:LOL:
 
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