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The Second Amendment and Rights

A thread has recently exploded when I posted about the Second Amendment and drawing the line between acceptable and unacceptable weaponry. On the thread, one particularly obvious common denominator sprung up with all of the gun advocates, the idea of "rights": A right is no less a right

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On Gun Control and the Second Amendment

The way I like to spend my downtime relaxing is to have endless debates on Facebook. In this case, I was debating gun control and regulation last night. I'm going to post some of my thoughts on this to see what you think. I am not going to

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Trump Effectively Endorses NZ White Nationalist Killings

Trump came out in a press conference in condolence for the terrible killings in Christchurch, New Zealand. Some 49 worshippers were gunned down in several mosques by a white nationalist. After giving short condolences to NZ, Trump went on a rant about an invasion of immigrants into the borders of

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Santa Fe and the Religious Wall against Reform

Yes, it's happened again. And, yes, prayers have been virtually flying about with all the causal inertia of signing the cross. The Guardian details the difference between Parkland and Santa Fe, underwritten by the rural conservative religiosity that blankets the small Texas town. In a place of 13,

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Powerful Words on Gun Control

I had not seen this. It gives me hope for the future. Eloquent elucidation from this teenager. Great stuff. [Facebook video] https://www.facebook.com/attn/videos/1671777076191078/?hc_ref=ARROTlWLW1tJUWV52kgi-1mVtA9Vb2RLmJ4lKB9hjFnEL0fu5_199rU_elnA-tzSuag Stay in touch! Like A Tippling Philosopher on Facebook: A Tippling Philosopher

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Second Amendment: Gun Rights. But What Is a Right, and Do We Have Them?

We hear the term "right" bandied around an awful lot, especially in the context of gun control. The Second Amendment to the US Constitution states that citizens have the right to bear arms. The phrasing is as follows: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of

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Gun Control: A Philosophical Analysis

There's always a lot of pushback against gun control from gun advocates, and more often than not you see the same sort of arguments presented. Here, I want to look at the argument for greater control or less control. Second Amendment Yes, Second Amendment (SA) advocates love to

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The NRA and Ultimatums

This letter is rather scary. Oh the power of the NRA! Is this how competent democracies are supposed to work? Decisions for the highest bidders... Lobbying is a disgrace.

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A Gun Story. This Is What Is Wrong with America.

This sort of thing blows my mind every time. I haven't seen a gun in public in the UK for over a decade. And I like it that way. https://www.facebook.com/michael.m.fahy/videos/10156340033558714/

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Erudite Florida Student, David Hogg, Speaks His Mind on Inactive Politicians and Gun Control

Check this out - a great interview. This young man for President! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0St-5GwlsgU&feature=youtu.be

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Trump, Guns, Money and Inaction

I thought I would share a couple of poignant memes concerning guns to start the ball rolling... I can't see that this shooting will be any different. My inductive reasoning nodes are going into overdrive in suggesting that the probability of inaction is high to certain. It'

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Guns and Death and Not Changing Anything

The death of countless children appears not to be enough to spur politicians into action. It enrages me, but this is undoubtedly nothing compared to the rage felt by the many victims and family members affected. This video sums it up: This chart shows what an outlier the US really

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No Scalise, You Don't Get to Appeal to Miracles, You Dolt.

I don't want to take away from the terrible tragedy that was the baseball ground shooting, but US politician Steve Scalise returned to Congress today and delivered an emotional speech. Problem being, the speech was nonsense, at least in part. This part: "When I was laying out

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Gun Control and Vehicle Terrorism

Australian Prime Minister has said in the last day: “After the Nice truck attack last year I asked the counter terrorism co-ordinator… to get together with all of the state and territory police agencies, with business, with local government and make sure that we had a comprehensive strategy for protecting

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On De-escalation

Police in the UK do not routinely carry guns. That is a good thing. I feel all the safer for it. This has the ramification of needing to de-escalate scenarios rather than shoot first, get it over with, and work out what to do later. Salt Lake City police have

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Japan's Gun Death 2240 Times Lower than US

The BBC recently produced an article looking into why Japan has such vanishingly low gun deaths and gun crime in comparison to the US. Yes. let's have a gun debate. The article included the following: Japan has one of the lowest rates of gun crime in the world.

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Gun Control and Good Guys Stopping Bad Guys

Gun control is back on the agenda. As it always is after one of the seemingly endless procession of massacres in the US. Yes, I could bang on about stats and the US being a huge outlier on so many areas concerning gun ownership and deaths. But that has been

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Guardian Asks Polite Question, Get Ejected from Largest Gun Expo

Wow. This says it all. Several things to take away from this. I was taken aback by the idea that a slump in gun sales, a real economic downturn to the industry, came from ... "stability in the country". "Fear drives sales in the gun industry". Profit

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The Second Amendment IS Gun Control Regulation!!

Over on another thread, there is some talk about gun control in the context of open carry, lack of training and licensing as set out in State legislature. I thought I would thrown this one out again to show that regulation is indeed rather pertinent in the text of the

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Oklahoma House votes to eliminate license, training requirements for openly carried sidearms

Oklahoma seems to have gone nuts. For a Brit, this is all so alien and obviously stupid, to my tiny mind. Not only can they openly carry guns in public, but they are not required to have licenses or training. I am stunned by this. As the Tulsa World reports:

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US Politicians' "thoughts and prayers" after massacres: Igor Volsky and gun control

What looks to be a result of terrorist activity is still another mass shooting eased in its execution by some of the most lax gun rules in the world, and certainly in the developed world. In reaction to the San Bernardino shootings, there has been a marked difference between the political statements

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Russell Howard on Guns: Hijacking a Religion to Kill People

Great stuff:

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Deranged Support for Planned Parenthood Shooting

I am sure you have all heard about the Colorado Springs shooting incident involving a man who, it seems with an axe to grind with Planned Parenthood (over abortion issues), went on a shooting spree. As if that wasn't bad enough, we get some insane comments from the

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Heroin and guns

I have a friend who often takes heroin. She's responsible. She'll often go out and do it in the woods, where she owns a little farmstead. She'll shoot up and really enjoy herself. It makes her feel good; empowered. Gets those endorphins flowing.

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Interesting gun control vs deaths by state chart

Someone posted this on a facebook thread I was on. I thought it was a useful pictorial representation of the connection between control measures and gun-related deaths. I have seen this connection argued both ways recently.