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Owning Guns Is Sort of Like Owning Rattlesnakes
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IN HIS SHORT story “Rattlesnakes and Men,” science fiction author Michael Bishop describes a town where everyone is required by law to own a dangerous rattlesnake. It’s a scenario that he says is no more absurd than how America treats access to guns. “We lost our son at Virginia Tech in 2007, in the shootings there,” Bishop says in Episode 322 of the Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy podcast. “I had been opposed to the laxity of our gun laws for a long, long time, and that just hardened both my wife and me on that particular point.” |
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MarkHamTownsend
(8/20/2018)
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I've been bit by a snake in my life ~~not a poisonous one. It was a living creature with a will of its own and survival instincts bred into its species by millions of years of surviving nature. I was a stupid kid playing with something I should have left alone.
I have never been bit by a gun .... that is an inanimate mechanical device. If I put it down it will stay there until I touch it again.
Try that with a Rattler or Cottonmouth. It won't be there when you come back .... and you might find out where it is in a remarkably painful way. |
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jac
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| It's difficult for me to accept that people are that stupid. |
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| "Some people think that the Second Amendment is an outdated relic of an earlier time. Doubtless some also think that constitutional protections of other rights are outdated relics of earlier times. We The People own those rights regardless, unless and until We The People repeal them. For those who believe it to be outdated, the Second Amendment provides a good test of whether their allegiance is really to the Constitution of the United States, or only to their preferences in public policies and audiences. The Constitution is law, not vague aspirations, and we are obligated to protect, defend, and apply it. If the Second Amendment were truly an outdated relic, the Constitution provides a method for repeal. The Constitution does not furnish the federal courts with an eraser." --9th Circuit Court Judge Andrew Kleinfeld, dissenting opinion in which the court refused to rehear the case while citing deeply flawed anti-Second Amendment nonsense (Nordyke v. King; opinion filed April 5, 2004) |
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