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DonP

(6,185 posts)
4. Good for you ... no.
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 10:05 AM
Sep 2015

How about we start screening out stupid, ill informed voters too with a basic IQ test?

They can do a lot of damage at the polls as well. Hey, they gave us Bush/Cheney and 2 wars that killed a lot of people. Why run that risk again?

We can stop drunk driving by prohibiting alcohol sales completely ... again. Sure it didn't work too well last time, but this time Capone is dead and "it's for the children" so it will be better.

Sorry, but disarming the 99.9% of law abiding gun owners (even if you could), because of less than .1% who are mentally unstable or criminals doesn't work for me and wouldn't work for this country either.

You want to deal with that .1%? Work on revising the HIPAA laws and allow access to mental health records for the NICS background checks. But you have to deal with the ACLU on that not the NRA, the ACLU folks are pretty serious about the whole medical privacy thing.

Anyone running for office and proposing it seriously would doom their party to minority status for at least a decade.

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That's the same way I feel. ileus Sep 2015 #1
So what are your thoughts? Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #2
From my early youth, maybe 10 or 11 I wanted a 9mm German Luger. mikehiggins Sep 2015 #3
Good for you ... no. DonP Sep 2015 #4
Not much here. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #5
Kick SecularMotion Sep 2015 #6
Did anyone else quit reading when he said... Kang Colby Sep 2015 #7
I thought the same thing... ileus Sep 2015 #8
He should have done more research... Kang Colby Sep 2015 #9
The first thing, and I mean the VERY first thing... beevul Sep 2015 #10
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