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   mikefive said, 5 months ago

   They probably did have a few that initially felt that way back then.
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   Chillbilly said, 5 months ago

   They also had quite a few who thought enslaving other human beings and owning them to do your yardwork was a good idea. And that women as chattel was a good idea. As with all necessary progress, smarter and more moral people decades later fixed a few of the founders’ grevious and horrific errors.
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   mikefive said, 5 months ago

   @Chillbilly

   Jeez, Chillbilly, is there anything that you can’t find a reason to denigrate?
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   motivemagus said, 5 months ago

   @ScottPM

   He did. And he’s right.
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   DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

   (re: Yesterday’s cartoon.)

   
   Redneck: Oooooh, the newspapers are publishing who owns guns. Now the bad guys will know I have a gun and I’ll be more of a target.

   
   Normal person: I note you have a bumper sticker on your truck that says "This vehicle protected by Smith & Wesson. Why do you have that?

   
   Redneck: So the bad guys will know I have a gun and I’ll be less of a target.

   
   Alrighty, then.
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   Fourcrows said, 5 months ago

   @ScottPM

   Please point out what part of Chillbilly’s statement was false.
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   Zuhlamon said, 5 months ago

   The founders had to keep slavery in order to get some states to join the revolution – a decision that led to the Civil War four score later. The last Congress delayed the sequester and debt limit, and it’s here we go again…
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   mickey1339 said, 5 months ago

   @Chillbilly

   “As with all necessary progress, smarter and more moral people decades later fixed a few of the founders’ grevious and horrific errors.”

   Grievous and horrific by today’s standards yes. That’s where the world was at that time. Yet they were also far sighted enough to build in flexibility for the future evolution of the culture and the country when they wrote the ninth amendment and left the flexibility for the constitution to be added to…
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   ruff said, 5 months ago

   @mickey1339

   Exactly, I agree. That is why the present gun culture is totally absurd. The constitution and the second amendment were written in the days of muzzle loaders. Trying to apply this to today’s armory available to the public makes no sense at all, and needs adjusting.
   Sorry for changing subject.
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    warjoski said, 5 months ago

    @ Dr. Canuck

    So every gun owner is a ‘redneck’ with a bumper sticker on their truck?

    And what if the Journal had published, say, the names and addresses of all citizens of Middle Eastern Descent? Or known homosexuals? But that would be different, wouldn’t it?

    What that newspaper did was reprehensible. No occasional ‘bumper sticker’ idiot who you’ve happened to meet makes it any less so.
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    ahab said, 5 months ago

    @warjoski

    Some gun nuts on this web site have repeatedly stated that those who chose not to own guns, should put up a sign at their home stating that it is gun free. Gun owners are just not enjoying the fact that owning guns may make them a target for burglary, and hence not as safe as they steadfastly claim!
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    bueller said, 5 months ago

    @warjoski

    Loving that whole premise of "redneck " vs.
    “normal person”. Two – dimensional enough
    to be worthy of a cartoon mentality ( More comics page "Garfield " than the editorial
    page, I mean.)
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    mikefive said, 5 months ago

    @ahab

    “Gun owners are just not enjoying the fact that owning guns may make them a target for burglary, "
    ♦
    I would think that a burglar would be certifiable or have a death wish to knowingly invade a household that was armed when he can invade one that isn’t armed thereby increasing his survival iindex.
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    From January 2007 to December 2010, The Democrat Controlled House failed to pass One single Budget, Nancy Pelosi just ‘Kicked the Can’ down the road.
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    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    Living in the past, Canadianneck?
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