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The NRA isn’t really the problem, though, it’s only a manifestation of the problem. The real problem is that our society is deeply divided on the subject of guns, just as we are deeply divided on some other issues. Gun control advocates don’t always seem to appreciate this. It’s easier to blame the NRA and its high-octane rhetoric than the nice neighbor who just happens to think differently.
We recently ran a letter from a writer who complained that Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Roanoke County, has used his position as chairman of the House Judiciary Committee to kill gun control legislation. Specifically, the writer complained about “legislative obstructionists like Goodlatte and other toadies who do the bidding” for the NRA.
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laker1
(9/5/2015)
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| No evidence anywhere in the world that gun control reduces violent crime. However the evidence runs directly opposite to that worldwide. |
| Comment by:
PHORTO
(9/5/2015)
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*sigh* When will these people accept that the 'debate' was had in 1789, and it is OVER.
A founding principle of this nation is a fundamental right of the people to lawfully bear arms.
In our system due process rules, and rights can only be denied on an individual basis based upon criminal conviction or an adjudication of a dangerous psychosis.
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jac
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The real problem is the lack of penalties for breaking the law. It is appalling the light sentences handed out for robberies, and shootings that do not kill someone. Between bail and probation, most crimes are hardly punished.
Locking the violent criminals up for substantial periods is the only thing that they understand. |
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| I do believe that where there is a choice only between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908 [by an Indian extremist opposed to Gandhi's agreement with Smuts], whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defend me, I told him it was his duty to defend me even by using violence. Hence it was that I took part in the Boer War, the so-called Zulu Rebellion and [World War I]. Hence also do I advocate training in arms for those who believe in the method of violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor. — Mohandas K. Gandhi, Young India, August 11, 1920 from Fischer, Louis ed.,The Essential Gandhi, 1962 |
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