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beevul

(12,194 posts)
15. Yes.
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 03:46 PM
Feb 2016
Do you have a problem with switchblades being banned?


Absolutely.

You don't give a damn about the carnage caused by widespread gun ownership, your property rights superseding the right of others to live. But I don't think selfishness is a liberal virtue, do you?


What a piss poor argument. My property rights are not in conflict with the rights of others to live. There is no carnage caused by widespread gun ownership. Others directly and actively threatening peoples right to live, threatens their right to live, not people minding their own business not shooting or killing others. And yet you feel justified in attacking the people that aren't the problem.

Speaking of selfishness, going after the people that aren't causing the problem, because you don't like guns, is the textbook definition of selfish.

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WHAT THE HELL??? Herman4747 Feb 2016 #1
1. It's not a "mere property" right. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #2
sure are a lot of gun toting pre-school dangerous criminals in the USa nt msongs Feb 2016 #3
What does that even mean? Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #4
That poster seldom makes sense DonP Feb 2016 #7
It's like having someone angrily throw a fistful of feathers at you. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #8
A switchblade can be used in "self-defense"... Herman4747 Feb 2016 #9
If someone used a switchblade to fight of a violent criminal attacker that law would serve no Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #11
Yes. beevul Feb 2016 #15
do you know why switchblades are banned? gejohnston Feb 2016 #17
I don't think that call is yours to make.... beevul Feb 2016 #5
If it were about "right to life", benEzra Feb 2016 #6
Interesting that you should mention "bicycle"... Herman4747 Feb 2016 #10
How about alcohol? No one ever stopped an attacker by getting drunk. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #12
I'm not in a place where I can commute, benEzra Feb 2016 #21
False dichotomy. Lizzie Poppet Feb 2016 #19
walk like an egyptian jimmy the one Feb 2016 #13
So you're adopting the RW interpretations. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #14
The following are taken from the Oxford English Dictionary... discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2016 #16
bracketing jimmy the one Feb 2016 #22
re: "Controlling citizen's arms was not much a concern in 1791, they weren't as dangerous..." discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2016 #23
Since the amendment doesn't restrict the RKBA to the militia... Lizzie Poppet Feb 2016 #18
You're correct but it's t fictions of others we're confronting. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2016 #20
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