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billh58

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3. The Second Amendment
Thu Jan 16, 2014, 02:36 PM
Jan 2014

absolutists want a completely anonymous system of gun ownership so that the mean old "government" can't trace guns back to their owners. According to the gun lobby extremists this would lead to a national registry, which would inevitably lead to mass confiscation just like Hitler conducted (snort...).

Most Americans, including rational gun owners, welcome gun regulations that make our society safer and saner. The very vocal Second Amendment absolutist minority of gun worshipers, not so much. Their war with an imagined tyrannical Federal Government is very real to them, and they are extremely serious about the cold-dead-hands NRA mantra. They are armed and very, very dangerous. They are able to pass background checks because bigotry, hatred, and an obsession with guns are not usually recorded anywhere -- bless their hearts.

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