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   Ennui_rudy Rutherford said, 5 months ago

   NRA – No Reasonable Answer
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   motivemagus said, 5 months ago

   Fact: the US has 9.2 firearm deaths per 100,000 people a year. The UK has 0.25.
   Fact: the countries higher than the US include South Africa, Mexico, Panama, Brazil, El Salvador.
   Fact: The next highest score by a European nation is Switzerland, with 3.5 — or almost a third of ours.
   And Wikipedia has its own page for US school shootings:
   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   Lets follow the constitution to the letter and only allow guns to members of well regulated militias.
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   Darren Blair said, 5 months ago

   @Radish

   And who do you think used to make up the militias?
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   Armed citizens.
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   mdavis4183 said, 5 months ago

   Explain what the NRA had to do with Sandy Hook.
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   ARodney said, 5 months ago

   Wow, that’s trivial. The NRA kept the assault weapons ban from being renewed, by threatening congress. Without the assault weapons ban, the murder weapon could be purchased. The NRA has much, much innocent blood on its hands, both in the US and Mexico.
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   sw10mm said, 5 months ago

   @Ennui_rudy Rutherford

   But those who want a new law when 41 didn’t stop this are reasonable? OK.
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   dannysixpack said, 5 months ago

   ^ok, you want reasonable. let’s go with original intent. citizens have the right to keep and bear muskets. NEXT!
   
   the 41 laws (that’s inflamatory) are ineffective, get rid of them and replace it with one national law. A list of illegal firearms and bullets.
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   @Darren Blair

   Militia suggests some kind of an organization where the people know each other and presumeably would not give a crazy person a gun.
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    Donald Williams said, 5 months ago

    @Radish

    Militia suggests some kind of an organization where the people know each other and presumeably would not give a crazy person a gun.
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    Sorry, Radish….
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    Most often I agree with your posts – but you are on thin ice here.
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    From what source do you ascertain this suggestion?
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    I find it highly unlikely that among the 13 colonies every “militiaman” knew all the others.
    
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @Radish

    Following the 2nd Amendment to the letter allows us to Keep and Bear Arms as it also states the rights of Citizens to Keep and Bear Arms shall not be Infringed.. Look up the definition of Infringed
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    motivemagus said, 5 months ago

    @Donald Williams

    Actually, probably most of them did. Militiamen came from a relatively small group of people, and formed geographically, so a militia was made up of your neighbors. Since a gun was not a cheap proposition, it also meant that it was generally someone with at least some resources, and therefore were more likely to be known in the community.
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    Donald Williams said, 5 months ago

    @motivemagus

    Actually, probably most of them did.
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    The statement that was posted by Radish was a bit more all-encompassing than that which you explain.
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    What you’re saying is similar to a comparison with the NEA (National Education Association) leadership, where I knew all those from Little Rock, the majority of them from Arkansas, but very few from the rest of the U.S.
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    One must take care when making generalized statements.
    
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