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1 hour ago, DA Baracus said:

I don't get why they hold the constitution in such high regard.

The fact that it's had so amendments (27, one of which amended a previous amendment) shows how worthless it is.

So many who support the second amendment seem to ignore so many of the others as well. The third amendment says that America must allow British soldiers to be quartered in pubs. Nonsense, but no more so than the second amendment.

There's been a lot written about this, my own view is that it's rooted in their reformed religiosity. The country was created by people fleeing imposed religion, religion by personal authority rather than religion from first sources. More than any country in the world, the US takes a literalist view of the Bible. Apart from the Catholics, who until recently were marginalised anyway, there are no powerful national or even regional churches. There is no central authority - authority comes only and exclusively from the Bible itself.

They treat the Constitution in much the same way they treat the Bible - as the unarguable law of the universe. Sure, there have been amendments, but it's been a long, long time since there has been a meaningful amendment, and anyway, the Bible was effectively amended through the Gospels, and then the prophets and all the other stuff in the New Testament. For a critical mass of Americans, the Constitution is basically finished, and to argue with its fundamentals is to argue with the laws of God and nature. 

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A guy started shooting in a bar and a security guard (good guy with a gun) shot him.
The police turned up and seen the good guy with a gun and promptly shot him dead.
Seems a black security guard with a gun doesn't count as a good guy with a gun.

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4 minutes ago, Dee Man said:

I wonder how the NRA would respond if someone ran amok in their HQ killing loads of employees with an assault rifle. 

That would be absolutely awful. If anyone is tempted to do it, remember BIG MAGAZINES, even if they're illegal. AR15's are hot too, but don't do it. You've no chance of finding them on 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia anyway, so don't even try. PEACE!

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27 minutes ago, welshbairn said:

That would be absolutely awful. If anyone is tempted to do it, remember BIG MAGAZINES, even if they're illegal. AR15's are hot too, but don't do it. You've no chance of finding them on 11250 Waples Mill Road, Fairfax, Virginia anyway, so don't even try. PEACE!

Hopefully@Cerberus @Raidernation or any other Stateside P&Bers don't do this. 

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20 minutes ago, Oooooft said:

2 year old dies through self inflicted gunshot wound.

 

Yip.

 

A 2 year old, they start 'em young over there.

 

https://wset.com/news/nation-world/2-year-old-boy-dies-after-finding-gun-under-fathers-pillow-and-shooting-himself

 

He'd still be alive if he looked under his mothers pillow, surprised but alive.

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47 minutes ago, Oooooft said:

2 year old dies through self inflicted gunshot wound.

 

Yip.

 

A 2 year old, they start 'em young over there.

 

https://wset.com/news/nation-world/2-year-old-boy-dies-after-finding-gun-under-fathers-pillow-and-shooting-himself

 

Surely the answer is to arm all two year olds.

 

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1 hour ago, BigFatTabbyDave said:

I'll miss Welshbairn and Dee Man after their extradition for inciting terrorist activity in The Land of the Free™.

My prayers go with them.

But you're keeping your thoughts to yourself...

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