Your healthcare system doesn’t work either. Don’t you watch FOX News?
This is the post-411 world. We no longer need information to back up our reality.
It works in my context.
But you are taking it out of context! You don’t even have Kroger stores over there.
LOL. The average “time to crime” is 8 years. If a total ban (i.e. confiscation) on guns did change the behaviour of criminals, then about half the illegal guns would be removed from society in 8 years. You would achieve a similar but less effective result with licensing and registration (only because there is more “leakage” with licensing and registration than with a total ban). In the meanwhile a total ban would leave the civilian population disarmed in the face of an armed criminal population while licensing and registration would impose a burden (a constitutional burden according to Heller) on the law abiding citizen while constricting the flow of firearms into criminal hands to a trickle.
I would suggest that the second amendment gives the states the right to arm their citizens with anything the military has. But yes, the individual right can be limited to what is reasonably necessary for effective self defense.
YES!!! Because cops and the military are well known for their hippy leftist tendencies.
I don’t think the Brazil situation is remotely close enough to ours for this to be meaningful. There are plenty of industrialized first world western nations without guns that make better comparisons.
Of course this relies on magic. But if we magically got rid of all the guns, I suspect there would be fewer people who feel like the second amendment is important to them.
See Syria.
Well thats the rub. Most of these guys crying “freedom” like they’re braveheart are frequently on the side of the English.
And of course hippy leftists are well known for their pro-police, pro-military, pro-fascism views.
Oh, please. You don’t seriously think that the rebels are standing up to the Syrian army with small arms, do you?
…with browner skin than THEY and murder them all in the name of “freedom.”
Nominative.
Wrong. Unless you’re a fanatic prescriptivist who learned English several decades ago and are unable to adapt.
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… The accusative after than is pronounced to be “now so universal as to be considered the normal construction,” not only in the inevitable than whom, but elsewhere…
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Sorry if this has nothing to do with guns. I was attracted by the serendipitous juxtaposition of “Stupid” and “Bricker” in the thread list. 
You don’t actually know any gun owners, do you?
Of all the gun owners I know of, only two do NOT fit this description. Many of them, I know are gun owners because they espouse this attitude on social networking sites.
My FIL has been stocking up on weapons specifically because he is preparing to have to fight Liberals/Democrats in the streets.
Yes. He gets all his information from Fox News and talk radio. 
That is really interesting. I probably know more people that own guns than don’t and not one of them has ever expressed any interest in using their guns to fight Liberals/Democrats in the street or anywhere else for that matter.
The Syrian government doesn’t seem to be having much success just taking their guns and killing them and as far as I can tell, they really would like to.
BTW, what do you think is the most common weapon being used by the Syrian rebels?
You have no faith in the power of individuals do you?
Of all the gun owners I know,none of them fit that description. Most of them are right leaning but generally politically indifferent.
I find this almost as unbelievable as the other–you don’t know a single range rambo?
It’s vaguely interesting to me how the crazy wings of both sides tend to assume the police and government apparatus are wholeheartedly in support of the other side.
Your own cite argues against you; heavy machine guns and RPGs aren’t small arms.
None whatsoever. Individuals are weak; that’s why society exists in the first place. That’s why Americans are taught to value individualism so much; it makes them weak, easy victims for the powerful. Easy to exploit, easy to control, easy to ruin or kill if they become inconvenient.
The fact that they are not talking to you about it probably means you are on the list.
I am unfamiliar with the phrase “range Rambo” but seriously, none of my gun owning friends have ever expressed the desire to hunt anyone down.
A “range Rambo” is a term I hear around here for the kind of gun nut who is seemingly always at the shooting range, burning up hundreds of bucks worth of ammo monthly and ranting about how his huge gun collection is totally going to help him hold off the gun grabbers and gays and whoever else is the boogeyman of the week.
Generally this is the guy you expect to be jailed for shooting his ex-wife’s cat rather than actually leading armed insurrection.
I suppose that’s one advantage to living out in the country as I do. We don’t go to the shooting range with all the crazy people, we just go outside and shoot. I did work with the person that matched that description many years ago but fortunately I haven’t known any since then.
What are they, pussies? 