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Gun Control Reform Activism

upaloopa

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2. I aways thought that having one of these

Reply to billh58 (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 12:05 PM

Feb 2015

"what ever you call them" guns to hold off the oppressors is a futile tactic because the oppressors will out number and out gun you eventually. Then they will take your gun from your cold dead hands. Oppressors shoot back don't they?
Dying for the right to own a gun is foolish because it would never get you where you wanted to be.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] billh58 Feb 2015 OP

And gunners try to convince us there is no such thing as a semi-auto assault rifle. Hoyt Feb 2015 #1

They want to have it both ways, guns are awesomely lethal and guns are just things Electric Monk Feb 2015 #4

I aways thought that having one of these upaloopa Feb 2015 #2

Yeah, but you get to look real macho like the dude above TheCowsCameHome Feb 2015 #3

Military-styled semi-auto rifles were originally marketed openly as "assault rifles." Paladin Feb 2015 #5

I agree, and I am adequately familiar billh58 Feb 2015 #6

That's exactly what I'm advocating that we avoid. Paladin Feb 2015 #7

As Jim Jefferies billh58 Feb 2015 #8

Funny stuff, indeed :) Electric Monk Feb 2015 #9

Jefferies is great, as are Australia's tough gun laws. Hoyt Feb 2015 #10