# Price for gun rights is paid in PA.

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [April 4, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-for-gun-rights-is-paid-in-pa/492005 "2009-04-04T22:55:04Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 9, 2009, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/price-for-gun-rights-is-paid-in-pa/492005/515 "2009-04-09T14:41:53Z")

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> [@gonzomax](#):
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> [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/08/jiverly-wong-fired-98-sho\_n\_184950.html](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/08/jiverly-wong-fired-98-sho_n_184950.html)  
> Wong shot off almost 100 bullets in a minute and a half. That firepower is needed to protect your home from motorcylcle gangs and zombies. But these guns being available to nuts around the country will result in public massacres. Protecting your home is one thing. Guns that spray bullets are anti personnel weapons on a large scale. They do not fit into a weapon for protection. They are overkill.

Hey, look! It’s **gonzomax**!  
I bet he has his cites all lined up to prove this:

> [@Guns are not designed to kill people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-are-not-designed-to-kill-people/471402/245):
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> If your point is ,that there were a lot of hand guns around during the birth of our country, you would be mistaken. Note a 1800 pistol is decades after the 2nd amendment.  
> Washington was impressed by the citizen who augmented his army. They were helpful and he appreciated them. That is why the militia is referred to in the 2nd. amendment. They were armed with private weapons and shot at the Britts from cover. They did not confront them with dueling pistols. Pistols were not significant weapons in the revolution. The militia reference is clear. The Brits confiscated the muskets of the Americans when they could. The genesis and point of the 2nd is obvious unless you want to twist it into a handgun bill. It is not.

and this:

> [@Guns are not designed to kill people](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/guns-are-not-designed-to-kill-people/471402/211):
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> The constitution was ratified in 1787. Hand guns by Colt came in 1840. So how the hell did the 2nd amendment refer to handguns. That is absolute bull.

No, wait…he doesn’t. I guess he’s just a lying sack of shit who has no credibility whatsoever in gun-related threads.

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