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View Poll Results: Do You Regularly Carry A Firearm?
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Should all registrated gun owners return their guns again after the massacre?
What kind of mentality can phrase a question such as this with a straight face?

Do we suggest that all registered vehicle owners "return" (as if it didnt belong to them in the first place) their vehicles after an accident, or a wilfull misuse of a vehicle by someone else?
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Do you have to be a U.S citizen to buy or carry a handgun, or are everyone with a residence in the U.S allowed?

Buying a Gun in Mo the Legal way, takes usually only an hour background check and a 48 hr waiting period!

Carrying a gun is altogether different, as it cost me a $100, and classes on Safety, proper storage, actual shooting etc......

Now bangers and criminals don't abide, they just carry, BUT they stay in their element!

Certain parts of Rural MO, AR, & OK you can go missing very easy and Bangers are not tolerated at all!

How do you protect yourself against Gays and Pedo's which populate Denmark?? Is it best to Join them or keep a cork for quick insertion up your ass?
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What kind of mentality can phrase a question such as this with a straight face?

Do we suggest that all registered vehicle owners "return" (as if it didnt belong to them in the first place) their vehicles after an accident, or a wilfull misuse of a vehicle by someone else?
You misunderstood my question completely. I was asking Agentorange if all people with handguns in Britain was forced to give them up after the massacre.
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You misunderstood my question completely. I was asking Agentorange if all people with handguns in Britain was forced to give them up after the massacre.
No, i understood it entirely.

What i do not understand is the mentality that believes a criminal action involving an inanimate object justifies stealing the property of the law abiding.
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How do you protect yourself against Gays and Pedo's which populate Denmark?? Is it best to Join them or keep a cork for quick insertion up your ass?
You seem to be a man with a great deal of experience in that area, and I guess you learned the cork thing the hard way.

How do you keep gays away from you now? Do you hit them with your little pink purse?
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No, i understood it entirely.

What i do not understand is the mentality that believes a criminal action involving an inanimate object justifies stealing the property of the law abiding.
They did the same with full-automatic weapons in the U.S after some nasty incidents, remember.
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They did the same with full-automatic weapons in the U.S after some nasty incidents, remember.
No they didnt.

The 1934 NFA created a tax stamp requirement - little bit of a difference there.
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No they didnt.

The 1934 NFA created a tax stamp requirement - little bit of a difference there.
According to Matt the mod, it became illegal to sell full-automatics in the year of our Lord 1986. Not hard to figure out why, aint it?
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According to Matt the mod, it became illegal to sell full-automatics in the year of our Lord 1986. Not hard to figure out why, aint it?
Its still legal to sell them, and that is a FAR cry from demanding people turn over legally owned property is it not?
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Its still legal to sell them, and that is a FAR cry from demanding people turn over legally owned property is it not?
Only used ones produced before 1986, which have resulted in extreme retail prices that most people with bad intentions cant or wont pay.
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And just what is your "gansta" friend doing that gets people to draw guns on him?
He was in a gang for many years. I assume he was doing gang member things. He has since gone to college, and now he lives the clean life, working in NYC. Not everybody lives the sweet life when they are young you know...
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Then your gangsta punk buddy is coming across people who don't know what the fuck they're doing.
Thanks, but my FRIEND is not a punk, rather he's one of the best people I've ever met, and it just so happens that he grew up in the hood, and joined a gang. He'll be the first to tell you that gangs suck, but that does not make him any less hood.

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When I draw my weapon, I've already come to terms with the fact that there are two rounds, at a minimum, leaving that gun not long after I draw it. Period. If that wasn't the case, it would remain holstered...
Well that's all well and good, but do you have the confidence that you would have the presence of mind to act with a clear mind if you felt you needed to draw your weapon to save your life?




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You should amend that to read "idiots who carry guns". Many of us happen to be well trained in the use of firearms and personal protection.
How many times have you practiced the use of your gun in a situatiion where someone tried to grab it? Thinking that you can adequately control a firearm is like thinking that you can overpower someone twice your size just by taking a self defense class. If your reaction with your firearm is not second nature, I would give a second thought as to how well your training has prepared you for using your gun. On the other side of the coin, the person who has no reservations about robbing you likely has the presence of mind to keep his composure during these types of situations because they have been through them before.

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I can't think of too many situations where I would draw my weapon and hold it within arms reach of another person.
Would you not just draw your weapon and tell the person to get the fuck away then? You wouldn't be in danger if you were more than an arm's reach away right?

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The question becomes how you elect to save your ass. Following the demands of the assailant is generally accepted as the best way to ensure that you remain unhurt.

Following the demands of the assailant and then shooting him often garners the same result...
Well I guess if you could shoot them I certainly would not say that someone who got caught with their hand in the cookie jar was treated unfairly...
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You seem to be a man with a great deal of experience in that area, and I guess you learned the cork thing the hard way.

How do you keep gays away from you now? Do you hit them with your little pink purse?
Oh wow, a "tough" little Scandanavian Freedom Leecher whose Nation America kept out of the clutch's of Hitler!

Pink Purse? If you ever seen me Nancy, you would piss down your leg BOY, as when I rassle Grizzlies, their always spotting the Bear with some handicap against me!

I suspect your late for your International Nambla meeting, so practice pursing your lips before you leave!
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Only used ones produced before 1986, which have resulted in extreme retail prices that most people with bad intentions cant or wont pay.
That statement has no basis in fact. Criminals most assuredly can and do get them.

If i remember correctly, my original question had nothing to do with the legal availability of full-auto firearms. My original question asked how one comes to the conclusion that a criminal act by one person justifies government stealing the property of everyone else.
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