Honest and open debate on gun control

Again, we already have the tax stamp process for machine guns...
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
Not as many...
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
There are 1 million AR-15s in private hands, yet they account for a handful of crimes each year....why...because our criminals prefer small concealable guns....but if they want AR-15s or anything else for that matter you tax stamp isn't going to stop them........
What you mean to say is the level of misuse of guns by gun owners in the US in no way justifies the wholesale licensure of gun owners, wholesale registration of firearms, punitive taxation of the ownership of firearms and the cessation of the production of new firearms.

Indeed. All these are, without question, intentionally broad infringements on the right to arms for which there is no demonstrable compelling state interest.
 
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
There are 1 million AR-15s in private hands, yet they account for a handful of crimes each year....why...because our criminals prefer small concealable guns....but if they want AR-15s or anything else for that matter you tax stamp isn't going to stop them........
What you mean to say is the level of misuse of guns by gun owners in the US in no way justifies the wholesale licensure of gun owners, wholesale registration of firearms, punitive taxation of the ownership of firearms and the cessation of the production of new firearms.

Indeed. All these are, without question, intentionally broad infringements on the right to arms for which there is no demonstrable compelling state interest.


yeah...that is exactly what I mean.....:beer:
 
No I was going to say there must not be very many defenses because most where a shot was fired would make the news. And very few make the news.


And again...they only publish things they think are interesting, strained through a filter of anti gun bias......that, with the fact that most news casts are only 20 minutes long with commericials.....only the most interesting stories are going to make it and victim pulls gun and criminal runs away.....not going to make the news in most cases...unless it is on video...

Gun defenses are interesting, thats why they make national news. In this day of the Internet there would be lots of defense stories if shots were fired 46% of the time.

1) not if there wasn't a death
2) only if they have video

Many have neither and make the news. Guns are big news. Look how many accidental shootings make the news even with no deaths.


there were a total of 505 accidental gun deaths in 2013....care to show me links to all of those stories?

i bet they can be found. But no im not going to go back and find them. You want me to start posting accidental shootings? It's amazing how more of those make the news than defenses.
 
Again, we already have the tax stamp process for machine guns...
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
Not as many...
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
All of which are intended to make the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms too expensive to exercise.
This infringes upon the right to keeps and bear arms as it would if enacted over the exercise of any right.
So does any ban on the sales of new guns.
Fail.

Criminals will also, as you admit, still get guns. Fail.
As I have "repeatedly" explained to you congress is allowed to tax the HELL out of us an screw with us as much as they want too. Look at Obama care. Look at the current tax stamp process for machine guns. They have their nazi boots and they are allowed to use them. The tax stamp process is not a BAN it's a regulatory process that is "constitutional."

The only FAIL is your ability to recognize that the FAIL is your ASSUMPTION that this Federal Government can't fuck you over at will. Excuse my french.

Nothing short of completely stopping you from exercising your rights will be considered "infringing" by congress, the POTUS, and the SCOTUS. You are SCREWED. If you don't like being SCREWED you will have to elect better representatives than those from this two headed snake we call the democrat-republican party.
 
Again as stated before.. your reading of the 2nd amendment is wrong. It says "shall not restrict" it does not say shall make no laws regarding, shall not regulate, shall not limit, shall not register, or shall not tax.
Shall not infringe.
Any restriction or precondition laid upon the exercise of the right to arms not inherent to same is an infringement.
None of the restrictions you want to lay upon that exercise of the right are inherent to same - thus, infringements.
Incorrect I already explained how it prevents some criminals from getting guns. It does so by reducing the number of guns in non-criminals hands. By reducing the number of guns in non-criminal hands we reduce future first criminals that use otherwise legal guns tocommit crime.
Criminals will still get guns, yes?
Again, we already have the tax stamp process for machine guns...
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
Not as many...
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail. Government is allowed to tax you to hell and back for any damn reason they want to. Well except to vote that is.


And so with the vote so with having a gun....it is a right, just like voting, thanks for proving our point for us....
I didn't say they could take it away. What I said is they can use the tax stamp process and other taxes to make it too expensive for most people to buy them.
 
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
There are 1 million AR-15s in private hands, yet they account for a handful of crimes each year....why...because our criminals prefer small concealable guns....but if they want AR-15s or anything else for that matter you tax stamp isn't going to stop them........
What you mean to say is the level of misuse of guns by gun owners in the US in no way justifies the wholesale licensure of gun owners, wholesale registration of firearms, punitive taxation of the ownership of firearms and the cessation of the production of new firearms.

Indeed. All these are, without question, intentionally broad infringements on the right to arms for which there is no demonstrable compelling state interest.
Since when did our Federal Government need justification for screwing us? We're talking about a government that thinks its funny and ok to delete public records when they get caught screwing us over the coals. This government makes Nixon look like a saint. We're talking about a government that uses tax payer dollars to arm drug cartels with machine guns. We're talking about a government that uses drones to kill US citizens.
 
An honest and open debate should include a reason for why gun lovers are unwilling to establish confidence in their sincerity with their own elected representatives regarding being responsible with their Arms in public.
 
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
All of which are intended to make the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms too expensive to exercise.
This infringes upon the right to keeps and bear arms as it would if enacted over the exercise of any right.
So does any ban on the sales of new guns.
Fail.
Criminals will also, as you admit, still get guns. Fail.
As I have "repeatedly" explained to you congress is allowed to tax the HELL out of us...
But not under the effort of trying to limit the exercise of a fundamental right specifically protected by the constitution, because those protections, found in various amendments, amend the power to tax.
You refuse to understand this. Not sure why.
Nothing short of completely stopping you from exercising your rights will be considered "infringing" by congress, the POTUS, and the SCOTUS.
This is of course, a lie, with no substance whatsoever behind it.
 
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
There are 1 million AR-15s in private hands, yet they account for a handful of crimes each year....why...because our criminals prefer small concealable guns....but if they want AR-15s or anything else for that matter you tax stamp isn't going to stop them........
What you mean to say is the level of misuse of guns by gun owners in the US in no way justifies the wholesale licensure of gun owners, wholesale registration of firearms, punitive taxation of the ownership of firearms and the cessation of the production of new firearms.
Indeed. All these are, without question, intentionally broad infringements on the right to arms for which there is no demonstrable compelling state interest.
Since when did our Federal Government need justification for screwing us?
Since Marbury v Madison and footnote 4 of Carolene Products.
We're talking about a government that thinks its funny and ok to delete public records when they get caught screwing us over the coals. This government makes Nixon look like a saint. We're talking about a government that uses tax payer dollars to arm drug cartels with machine guns. We're talking about a government that uses drones to kill US citizens.
And you want to make it that much harder for the people to protect themselves from that government.
Interesting. Which side are you on?
 
I ask again::

How does the tiny % of guns and gun owners that misuse their firearms create a compelling state interest where it must have on record the identity and whereabouts of everyone that chooses to exercise their right to arms in order to protect the rights of the people?[...]
My answer begins with the fact that I am strongly opposed to gun registration. But since gun registration exists and is firmly embedded in our established system of government I don't see how my suggestion, which will prevent a lot of death and injury, can add to the negativity of registration.

If your opposition to my suggestion is based on an anti-registration position, am I mistaken in believing that gun registration is a nationwide requirement for legal ownership? I presently own two guns. As I recall, I had to go through a major bureaucratic process to register both purchases. So how would my suggestion add to the registration requirements?
 
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
There are 1 million AR-15s in private hands, yet they account for a handful of crimes each year....why...because our criminals prefer small concealable guns....but if they want AR-15s or anything else for that matter you tax stamp isn't going to stop them........
What you mean to say is the level of misuse of guns by gun owners in the US in no way justifies the wholesale licensure of gun owners, wholesale registration of firearms, punitive taxation of the ownership of firearms and the cessation of the production of new firearms.

Indeed. All these are, without question, intentionally broad infringements on the right to arms for which there is no demonstrable compelling state interest.
Since when did our Federal Government need justification for screwing us? We're talking about a government that thinks its funny and ok to delete public records when they get caught screwing us over the coals. This government makes Nixon look like a saint. We're talking about a government that uses tax payer dollars to arm drug cartels with machine guns. We're talking about a government that uses drones to kill US citizens.


Actually, a machine gun is a crew served weapon....
 
Shall not infringe.
Any restriction or precondition laid upon the exercise of the right to arms not inherent to same is an infringement.
None of the restrictions you want to lay upon that exercise of the right are inherent to same - thus, infringements.
Criminals will still get guns, yes?
Again, we already have the tax stamp process for machine guns...
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
Not as many...
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail. Government is allowed to tax you to hell and back for any damn reason they want to. Well except to vote that is.


And so with the vote so with having a gun....it is a right, just like voting, thanks for proving our point for us....
I didn't say they could take it away. What I said is they can use the tax stamp process and other taxes to make it too expensive for most people to buy them.


why should we make them harder for peaceful, law abiding people to buy them...they ain't the ones using them to kill other people....

here is an original idea....how about we try to stop actual criminals with 40 convictions who get arrested on a gun charge from using guns to murder people....you know, something that will actually lower the gun murder rate?
 
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
All of which are intended to make the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms too expensive to exercise.
This infringes upon the right to keeps and bear arms as it would if enacted over the exercise of any right.
So does any ban on the sales of new guns.
Fail.

Criminals will also, as you admit, still get guns. Fail.
As I have "repeatedly" explained to you congress is allowed to tax the HELL out of us an screw with us as much as they want too. Look at Obama care. Look at the current tax stamp process for machine guns. They have their nazi boots and they are allowed to use them. The tax stamp process is not a BAN it's a regulatory process that is "constitutional."

The only FAIL is your ability to recognize that the FAIL is your ASSUMPTION that this Federal Government can't fuck you over at will. Excuse my french.

Nothing short of completely stopping you from exercising your rights will be considered "infringing" by congress, the POTUS, and the SCOTUS. You are SCREWED. If you don't like being SCREWED you will have to elect better representatives than those from this two headed snake we call the democrat-republican party.


and again...why don't we tax voting...to make sure only the right kind of people can vote....or require a test on our government and the Constitution as well as current events before we let people exercise their right to vote....?
 
And again...they only publish things they think are interesting, strained through a filter of anti gun bias......that, with the fact that most news casts are only 20 minutes long with commericials.....only the most interesting stories are going to make it and victim pulls gun and criminal runs away.....not going to make the news in most cases...unless it is on video...

Gun defenses are interesting, thats why they make national news. In this day of the Internet there would be lots of defense stories if shots were fired 46% of the time.

1) not if there wasn't a death
2) only if they have video

Many have neither and make the news. Guns are big news. Look how many accidental shootings make the news even with no deaths.


there were a total of 505 accidental gun deaths in 2013....care to show me links to all of those stories?

i bet they can be found. But no im not going to go back and find them. You want me to start posting accidental shootings? It's amazing how more of those make the news than defenses.


yes...because most journalists are anti gun and reflexively show them in the worst light possible....do you ever hear them report on how often guns are used to save lives and stop violent crime?
 
I ask again::

How does the tiny % of guns and gun owners that misuse their firearms create a compelling state interest where it must have on record the identity and whereabouts of everyone that chooses to exercise their right to arms in order to protect the rights of the people?[...]
My answer begins with the fact that I am strongly opposed to gun registration. But since gun registration exists and is firmly embedded in our established system of government I don't see how my suggestion, which will prevent a lot of death and injury, can add to the negativity of registration.

If your opposition to my suggestion is based on an anti-registration position, am I mistaken in believing that gun registration is a nationwide requirement for legal ownership? I presently own two guns. As I recall, I had to go through a major bureaucratic process to register both purchases. So how would my suggestion add to the registration requirements?


You guys always say that your ideas will prevent death and injury.....that is called magic thinking.......you say making guns more expensive will keep guns out of the hands of criminals....they steal them...that costs nothing....they give money to people who can pass all of your gun control laws to buy them these guns....bypassing your tax stamps....

and tax stamps will not prevent one death or crime....but it will keep law abiding citizens, especially the poor from buying and owning guns for their own protection....people who live in violent places where criminals get guns easily, where the innocent have little protection by the police and are left to the mercy of violent, gun armed criminals...
 
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
All of which are intended to make the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms too expensive to exercise.
This infringes upon the right to keeps and bear arms as it would if enacted over the exercise of any right.
So does any ban on the sales of new guns.
Fail.
Criminals will also, as you admit, still get guns. Fail.
As I have "repeatedly" explained to you congress is allowed to tax the HELL out of us...
But not under the effort of trying to limit the exercise of a fundamental right specifically protected by the constitution, because those protections, found in various amendments, amend the power to tax.
You refuse to understand this. Not sure why.
Nothing short of completely stopping you from exercising your rights will be considered "infringing" by congress, the POTUS, and the SCOTUS.
This is of course, a lie, with no substance whatsoever behind it.
Not any more they can now tax you for your right to health care. They can tax you for ANY EFFING REASON WHATSOEVER NOW.
 
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
There are 1 million AR-15s in private hands, yet they account for a handful of crimes each year....why...because our criminals prefer small concealable guns....but if they want AR-15s or anything else for that matter you tax stamp isn't going to stop them........
What you mean to say is the level of misuse of guns by gun owners in the US in no way justifies the wholesale licensure of gun owners, wholesale registration of firearms, punitive taxation of the ownership of firearms and the cessation of the production of new firearms.
Indeed. All these are, without question, intentionally broad infringements on the right to arms for which there is no demonstrable compelling state interest.
Since when did our Federal Government need justification for screwing us?
Since Marbury v Madison and footnote 4 of Carolene Products.
We're talking about a government that thinks its funny and ok to delete public records when they get caught screwing us over the coals. This government makes Nixon look like a saint. We're talking about a government that uses tax payer dollars to arm drug cartels with machine guns. We're talking about a government that uses drones to kill US citizens.
And you want to make it that much harder for the people to protect themselves from that government.
Interesting. Which side are you on?
Me? I'm on the side of liberty. But I'm not blind to the facts.
 
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail.
The tax on machine guns is not there to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms
The tax stamp process is what I'm talking about. The reason machine guns are too expensive is that the tax stamp process came with a ban on sales to the public and imports for machine guns. The ban cause the prices to sky rocket. My tax stamp expansion will also carry with it a ban on sales of new guns to the public and imports for the expanded types of guns.
All of which are intended to make the exercise of the right to keep and bear arms too expensive to exercise.
This infringes upon the right to keeps and bear arms as it would if enacted over the exercise of any right.
So does any ban on the sales of new guns.
Fail.

Criminals will also, as you admit, still get guns. Fail.
As I have "repeatedly" explained to you congress is allowed to tax the HELL out of us an screw with us as much as they want too. Look at Obama care. Look at the current tax stamp process for machine guns. They have their nazi boots and they are allowed to use them. The tax stamp process is not a BAN it's a regulatory process that is "constitutional."

The only FAIL is your ability to recognize that the FAIL is your ASSUMPTION that this Federal Government can't fuck you over at will. Excuse my french.

Nothing short of completely stopping you from exercising your rights will be considered "infringing" by congress, the POTUS, and the SCOTUS. You are SCREWED. If you don't like being SCREWED you will have to elect better representatives than those from this two headed snake we call the democrat-republican party.


and again...why don't we tax voting...to make sure only the right kind of people can vote....or require a test on our government and the Constitution as well as current events before we let people exercise their right to vote....?
Cause the facts are the only thing they can't tax is voting. But they can ensure that the voting is rigged.
 
Again, we already have the tax stamp process for machine guns...
Taxing guns to make them too expensive for people to exercise their right to arms violates that right to arms in exactly the same manner that taxing abortions to make them too expensive for women to have one violates their right to choose.
Infringement. Unarguably. Fail.
Not as many...
And so, criminals will still get guns. Fail.
Incorrect, it's already being done for machine guns and it did not Fail. Government is allowed to tax you to hell and back for any damn reason they want to. Well except to vote that is.


And so with the vote so with having a gun....it is a right, just like voting, thanks for proving our point for us....
I didn't say they could take it away. What I said is they can use the tax stamp process and other taxes to make it too expensive for most people to buy them.


why should we make them harder for peaceful, law abiding people to buy them...they ain't the ones using them to kill other people....

here is an original idea....how about we try to stop actual criminals with 40 convictions who get arrested on a gun charge from using guns to murder people....you know, something that will actually lower the gun murder rate?
It's not about lowering the murder rate it's about control.
 

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