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Why Are Conservatives So Obsessed With Gun Rights Anyway?
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Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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Why has support for gun rights become a hallmark of the Republican Party? There is nothing inevitable about the combination of economic and foreign policy conservatism with social conservatism. As late as the mid-1980s, conservative icons including Ronald Reagan supported gun control measures such as the Brady bill and a ban on assault weapons. Support for gun control legislation actually increased among Republicans in the 1980s. Unambiguous support for gun “rights” didn’t appear in the Republican Party platform until 1988. Even the National Rifle Association did not become fanatically opposed to any and all gun regulations until the late 1970s.
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netsyscon
(2/27/2018)
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| That is because how they saw how the DEMS were using creeping controls to the end of confiscating guns. |
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MarkHamTownsend
(2/27/2018)
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Because liberals are so obsessed with taking our guns away, that's why.
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| Comment by:
PHORTO
(2/27/2018)
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| Folks, this is Slate. We can't expect these guys to understand ANYTHING about American First Principles. |
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| Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of. Notwithstanding the military establishments in the several kingdoms of Europe, which are carried as far as the public resources will bear, the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms. — James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 46 |
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