And Chicago has some of strictest gun control laws yet had 3,500 people shot last year.

Neither that statistic or your Mexican statistic is pertinent.

The 2nd Amendment was put into place to allow the citizenry the ability to fight against their own oppressive government. If slaves had weapons, they would have certainly fought back. Slavery requires defenseless subjects. Germany gradually enforced who had access to weapons which conveniently left off whom they considered to be enemies of the state. We all know how that turned out..... I say we know that but I'm not sure we do. I read some stupid s.o.b with a national column compare a wall on our southern border to the Berlin Wall. What a moron.....The Berlin Wall was meant to keep people in, not out. Who doesn't know that? Who doesn't get that?

It seems far fetched, almost impossible such a situation could occur here, but today your job, your livelihood could be put at risk by politically incorrect speech. Work for a public company in any senior management position and go ahead, speak your opinion on the dangers of illegal immigrants, same sex marriage, mainstreaming transgender amoung school age kids......see what happens. We are now discussing legislation that allows someone to simply claim you're a risk, a danger to society and with no due process your personal property is taken away by the Motherland. You think it's impossible that won't be abused by the ruling party? Of course it will.

Freedom is hard, its messy, sometimes deadly, always complicated. Don't be so quick to hand it over...

It's worth repeating.

In my opinion, anyone who feels the need to own guns is nothing more than paranoid.

I do, however, feel that the Second Amendment is an important part of our Constitution and should not be repealed. (let's keep it real, it'll never happen in our lifetimes, if ever).

But to see so many conservatives' heads on fire about restricting access to some guns is just plain funny.  They seem to equate that to an all out ban - it's hilarious.

Don't worry gun nuts - we'll soon have the midterms and a lot of democrats will win, and gun sales will back up at Obama era levels!  

If it takes a constitutional convention to repeal the 2nd Amendment, then no.  Why, cause the Donalds would push through a white male property over 1 million only voting rights..finishing the screw job they have started.

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Utter nonsense.

I have been a competitive clay target shooter for many years. Sporting clays mostly, although I occasionally shoot skeet.
I feel the need to own guns because it would be impossible for me to participate in this sport without one.

I'd like to give you the benefit of the doubt, and say you are simply painting gun owners with a pretty broad brush, but I'm not sure that's true.I think it's more likely that you have ingested too much of the anti- gun( and anti- gun owner} propaganda, and simply don't know what you are talking about.

"In my opinion, anyone who feels the need to own guns is nothing more than paranoid."

 Coyotes run in my land, I'm not paranoid of them but I sure don't want to run around at night with a slingshot keeping them from going after things.

 I could bow-hunt too I suppose so I'm not so paranoid of the ducks/geese I shoot.

 I run medical supply details in South America, I guess I could be the only person unarmed and see how that goes.

oldNslow wrote on 03/28/18 at 09:33:08:

Eegore wrote on 03/28/18 at 10:36:46:


I get that - understood.  Good point.