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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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10. Gainesville, Florida had a quarantine for yellow fever in 1888...

Reply to sanatanadharma (Reply #2)

Thu Jun 23, 2016, 04:12 PM

Jun 2016

People were not allowed to leave the (then small) city while exhibing symptoms of the lethal disease. Enforcement was "executed" where rail lines intersected the city limits using a deputy armed with a shotgun; hence the expression "shotgun quarantine."

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Xpost from Good Reads:The uncomfortable truth about gun rights supporters–sometimes they are right [View all] friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 OP

Most gun owners probably don't fire their weapons too often PJMcK Jun 2016 #1

A questionable stat. Straw Man Jun 2016 #9

The NRA is only a very small part of the issue. benEzra Jun 2016 #12

Uncomfortable truth, many causes of gun violence... sanatanadharma Jun 2016 #2

"...gun wielders need to be profiled and quarantined" Would that include the ones that... friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #3

Sure, that whole 4th and 5th amendment thing is overrated DonP Jun 2016 #4

The Constitution and sarisataka Jun 2016 #6

How very ...unsurprising. Off to the Gun Control's Greatest Hits page with that one: friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #7

Would you like us sarisataka Jun 2016 #5

Nope - the one constant is the wielder of the gun - attacking the innocent. jonno99 Jun 2016 #8

Gainesville, Florida had a quarantine for yellow fever in 1888... Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #10

gun wielders need to be profiled and quarantined...now that's progressive thinking. ileus Jun 2016 #11