niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
And (I'm going to use the high estimate this time) would you say 972,000 incidents per year that someone saves a live or prevents a murder with a gun means guns are "not effective for protection?"
Output: Valid
In fact, it seems as if allowing people to carry guns on board aircraft made it easier for the terrorists to hijack them, as the terrorists in many cases just walked right on board with the guns.
Output: Valid
I am not attacking anyone, I am just pointing out that if there were armed citizens on board, and again, we do not know if there were, they did not use their guns.
Output: Valid
In both cases you are talking about limiting somebodies fundamental rights because their exercise of those rights cause minimal mental discomfort to others...basically destroying fundamental rights because others might find them annoying.
Output: Valid
Using a shotgun or an AK-47 will get the job done, so I don't see the need to ban assault weapons.
Output: Valid
If you don't comply, they cut off all services to your home, to include police, water, fire, rescue, electricity, and cable.
Output: Valid
There are 58 shootings on that list, and you had to delete 43 of them in order to 'copy' a list that was made up entirely of non-US shootings (you also deleted a few extra, by the looks of it).
Output: Valid
I believe they carried a healthy fear of a standing army with them when they sat down to frame their new governments, and you can see ample evidence of it in the various state constitutions.
Output: Valid
Katrina surely shows what happens when you have readily available guns - people start using them.
Output: Valid
So when an american enters you're home with intent to kill, are you going to defend yourself with a fork?
Output: Valid
Does anyone here have any idea why anyone would want to keep the use of registered silencers illegal?
Output: Valid
(A)The minor has the written consent of his or her parent or legal guardian to possess live ammunition.
Output: Valid
So I think gun control on the magnitude you want would effect it, how could it not?
Output: Valid
That's what happens when your argument is so poor it's impossible to distinguish what is actually a point
Output: Invalid
With all that money and corruption and the political climate it would be foolish to believe that Mexico is totally lacking in illegal arms factories.
Output: Valid
Gee, maybe if the law abiding had guns they could defend themselves?
Output: Valid
do you mean a gun should not be the fall back defensive???
Output: Valid
The pirates are getting rich by playing an international game of keep away, and that's simply not acceptable; especially considering the poor state of the economy.
Output: Invalid
As stressed by legal definition, that doesn't include shooting an intruder in the back or a finishing shot to the back of the head.
Output: Valid
Removing the fascination with guns from Americans young or old is nearly impossible.
Output: Valid
Zero tolerance standards can only be applied by the school, within school property.
Output: Valid
Gun rights are a tool of those who wish not to suffer at the hands of others.
Output: Valid
The fact that you need a permit to do it does give the cops a pretext to ask to see your papers just as they can ask to see your DL if you're sitting behind the wheel.
Output: Valid
I really can't do that if I don't have a gun do I. Your responsible for your own protection, not me.
Output: Valid
For instance, every gun should be sold with a bright orange, lockable case with a flashing light on it.
Output: Valid
The first thing you need to do when someone is charged with a crime is understand what the charge is and what must be proved.
Output: Valid
I told you anecdotal why it is not accurate from a gun owner's standpoint!
Output: Valid
Other than self-defense, the use of a gun against another human is socially undesirable.
Output: Valid
So if criminals would be in favor of banning guns, does that mean it would be in the best interest of society?
Output: Valid
Amendment protects the right of the states to arm their militias.
Output: Valid
We exhibit to mankind the remarkable spectacle of a people attacked by unprovoked enemies, without any imputation or even suspicion of offence.
Output: Valid
The murder plot���thwarted when the victim, then 70, fought off a hammer-wielding hit man���led to a trial that revealed a network of shell companies linked to Gaston Glock.
Output: Valid
It is threating not just gun sales, but potentially the sale of every product in the USA.
Output: Valid
Agents are testifying about the faulty records that can't be justified as we speak.
Output: Valid
SCOTUS has upheld "gun control" in principle repeatedly.
Output: Valid
Will they be able to own guns if they are taking a civics class?
Output: Valid
Of course we know that badge toters are always experts, from the moment they pin one on and that is why we see so many of them shooting theirselves in the foot, rear ends and other places.
Output: Valid
You're so quick at finding the exceptions in California's mandatory storage law, you should have no problem understanding the language of the basic Castle Doctrine laws.
Output: Valid
Do you have anything to offer from King on guns, or for that matter, the 2nd.
Output: Valid
* The "Ingestion of food, object" category is underreported in the first column since the NSC did not include death rates for "5 to 14 Years."
Output: Invalid
Then again anyone with the "bejesus" scared out of them by the exercise of free speech of others is not quite sane.
Output: Valid
And where laws were passed, the gun lobby has had success in watering those laws down.
Output: Valid
So we should take things/ rights away from people because there is a potential they could do criminal things with them?
Output: Valid
I was using it simply to illustrate society's right to be protected from someone commiting the same crime again before they can be prosecuted for the first offence.
Output: Valid
Doctors make medical decisions for you because they have knowledge which the average person does not have.
Output: Valid
35) Private citizens don't need a gun for self-protection because the police are there to protect them even though the Supreme Court says the police are not responsible for their protection.
Output: Valid
Groups such as the Brady campaign have demonstrated many times in the past that they have no understanding of firearms, and continuously offer suggestions that have little or no chance at actually reducing crime.
Output: Valid
It was felt by many (not all) at the time that such weapons were not military weapons and thus did not fall under the protection of the Second Amendment or the right to bear arms in their own state constitutions.
Output: Valid
Whereas DiGiacinto contends that Article I, �_ 13 contains greater protections than afforded by the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, GMU argues that, as relevant to this matter, the rights are co-extensive.
Output: Valid
I don���t buy that idea that gun control is about having an affect on the 2nd Amendment.
Output: Valid
We have guns and we still have crime and lots of gun deaths.
Output: Valid
I worry that the reduction of gun ownership will increase crime rates even in households with a gun.
Output: Valid
Unless the second amendment is recognised as an individual right, and given the full protection of law as other rights are, there is nothing to say that a law could not be passed tomorrow banning all weapons in this country.
Output: Valid
Something else you must keep in mind is that if we outlaw guns, the only people with guns will be outlaws, this leaves no defense for law abiding citizens.
Output: Valid
If groups like the NRA were truly interesting in following the Second Amendment they would be advocating the return of such laws as the Militia Act of 1792.
Output: Valid
Especially since one of your arguments is that the Second Amendment only protects arms suitable for militia duties, which would be all semi-automatic firearms in existence!
Output: Valid
The only people that obey gun control laws that prevent people from taking guns any where are law abiding people.
Output: Valid
I am, however, suprised that gun rights advocates use this case to defend the right to own guns, because the case seems to imply the opposite, as stated by Tim.
Output: Valid
If certain states don't wish to abide by the same free exercise of the Second Amendment that other states do, then they must adopt resolutions to treat all other rights with the same callous disregard to ensure equality.
Output: Valid
My point was that the theory that more gun control leaves people defenseless does not explain the lower murder rates in other developed nations.
Output: Valid
THe ban on these weapons is roughly equivelant to incumbent protection laws.
Output: Valid
That said, the idea that non gun homicides dont increase does not show causation between high gun ownership and increased murder rates.
Output: Valid
Private ownership of guns may indeed add to the number of weapons held by criminals, but it is not their major source of weapons.
Output: Valid
He instead went with a gun platform that's slow to reload and holds considerably fewer rounds than gun control proponents would tell us should be the maximum allowed amount available to civilians.
Output: Valid
I agree that law abiding citizens should be free to bear arms, but in the very amendment in question it describes the "militia" to bear arms as "well regulated".
Output: Valid
Its activists have battled to allow firearms on college campuses, in bars and in churches.
Output: Valid
Asking about gun ownership is no more likely to get you accurate data then randomly asking people if they have fantasies about sexually abusing their own children.
Output: Valid
But if you can legally buy a gun for that purpose, it means that your attacker is that much more likely to be armed as well.
Output: Valid
And now that these facts have been established, why are you guys ONLY calling for more and more restrictions, all of the time, doing your level best, to try and demean people who are trying to protect the Constitution?
Output: Valid
Careful reading of the Second Amendment clearly indicates that the principle of gun ownership is based upon the first phrase of the Amendment:
Output: Valid
There's not a single piece of evidence to support your claim that gun owners want the police to leave the criminals alone, or that we want gun traffickers to remain free on the streets.
Output: Valid
Do you expect us to do it with single shot rifles and BB guns, because the government found that our handguns and AR-15s aren't suitable for civilian ownership and banned them?
Output: Valid
That most people can't be trusted, so we should have more laws against guns, which most people will abide by because they can be trusted.
Output: Valid
Now, if we could agree on that basic premise, then the prudence of the law in question could be discussed from the perspective of whether or not its shortcomings justify the intentionally long and arduous process of changing The Constitution.
Output: Valid
Citing the Second Amendment and the increasingly maniacal rhetoric of conservative media firebrands, a small handful of violence-threatening protesters aims to make the rest of us -- whether pro- or anti-health-reform -- afraid to speak out.
Output: Valid
In addition to the federal law regarding background checks, Virginia has a separate background check and straw purchase prohibition statute has been around for quite some time, and over the years it has been revised as new issues arise.
Output: Valid
The difference is the fact that at the time firearms were not prohibited on school grounds which lead to return fire coming from regular citizens and students in aid of the police on the scene.
Output: Valid
* Of the 2.5 million times citizens use their guns to defend themselves every year, the overwhelming majority merely brandish their gun or fire a warning shot to scare off their attackers.
Output: Valid
It's just that on these forums, the words 'gun control' usually refer to extremely tight gun laws, or outright banning of guns.
Output: Valid
5th: Criminals will always get guns becasue:::: I have got this incredible information which we simply must publish: Criminals do not obey by the laws!!
Output: Valid
The new law allows legal gun owners with a concealed-carry permit to transport their unloaded weapons in an unlocked glove box or center console, with ammunition close by.
Output: Valid
We should ban knives just like Japan is looking at doing because of the high percentage of criminal homicides and suicides that are committed with knives.
Output: Valid
Obviously gun control is doing nothing to make California any safer, otherwise these numbers wouldn't be able to take place in such an alarmingly easy manner.
Output: Valid
There are NO judicial holding that decide that the right to bear arms is collective.
Output: Valid
The existence of guns remains constant regardless of new laws, the ones in illegal circulation remain constant and unregulated, so new laws are going to have the same affect of giving a placebo to somebody with AIDS.
Output: Valid
Though articles about gun crimes are treated as both local and national stories, defensive uses of guns are given only local coverage in the rare instances they run at all.
Output: Valid
Gun haters who want to ban guns chant this lie.
Output: Valid
It was asked when we decided to allow airline pilots to carry firearms again: ���Have you considered having a gun (on a plane) increases the opportunity for a violent incident, where one wouldn���t be available normally?���
Output: Valid
But we are united on the vital importance of putting to rest any misperception that the Second Amendment prohibits a wide range of effective and reasonable firearms regulations.
Output: Valid
The only gun control law that is needed is the law that prohibits a person from committing a crime with a gun.
Output: Valid
Btw, the DC ban allowed for residents to keep their existing registered guns and exempted shotguns and rifles.
Output: Valid
With the exception of a few states who have chosen to set their own policy, there's no law saying that it's illegal to buy more than X number of guns at one time.
Output: Valid
There is no reason law-abiding citizens need to defend themselves as they are untrained, do not have full knowledge of the law and eventually cause more harm than good by owning such weapons.
Output: Valid
Having an age limit on the ability to buy guns is a gun control measure.
Output: Valid
You guys have willed yourselves just as retarded as the people who claimed (And still claim) that the second amendment only conveys a right for the national guard to have weapons.
Output: Valid
Two weeks ago, concerning a case out of Chicago, the justices agreed to rule on whether the Second Amendment gives Americans a constitutional right to keep and bear arms that is enforceable against local and state gun laws.
Output: Valid
No government action is required for firearm ownership to fairly distribute limited resources or provide public safety when I have a gun in my closet.
Output: Valid
It is a loaded question because you're making certain assumptions when you ask the question (example: having a gun grabbing agenda is in direct violation of the constitution).
Output: Valid
This means that the people living in DC will soon be able to own Glocks and 1911s and Beretta 92s, as well as AK-47s and AR-15s and M1As and Mini-14s and all other kinds of modern weaponry.
Output: Valid
Many people who would never dream of shooting a person can own a gun simply for the artistry of a well made machine, people hunt with guns as well.
Output: Valid
The states with the higher numbers of minorities have the higher rates of gun control because they claim they have more crime.
Output: Valid
Somebody even made the argument that the definition of arms in the Second Amendment was limited to 18th century flintlocks only, so no modern guns were protected, and the court rejected this argument as well.
Output: Valid
Using illogic, skewed statistics, revisionist history all in an attempt to violate my constitutional rights, that would be you and other gun grabbers who are trying to infringe on law abiding citizens rights.
Output: Valid
Under your theory, in cases where a person would be excused from militia duty because of old age or physical disability, would you say that person does not have the right to keep and bear arms ?
Output: Valid
The only way to prevent guns from falling in the hands of criminals is by law abiding people buying every gun that is manufactured and thus leaving no guns available for criminals to buy.
Output: Valid
For instance, if something was written that says Gun owners should be skilled with their own firearms, but someone leaves off the s.
Output: Valid
Evne not adjusting for the time period, grammatical experts still ascertain that the second ammendment in no way allows for the limit of that personal right.
Output: Valid
The difference is knives are a tool, a domestic neccesity, along with tools such as screwdrivers and domestic appliances such as toasters all of which can kill under accidental circumstances, however their benefit outweights the possible issues.
Output: Valid
Since I have taken care to point out that there are Constitutional objections, and you have concurred, I'll assume you will also permit me to pretend that there is no 2nd Amendment.
Output: Valid
It's pointless people with criminal backgrounds aren't buying guns from gun stores (all of which already run background checks) there are no background checks on the black market and laws won't change that.
Output: Valid
Think about it this way, the main reason the knife rather the gun is the WOC is the fact that guns are expensive due to the need to avoid the law.
Output: Valid
Amendment recognizes an individual right, even if it further declared the right to be ���fundamental��� (which it should be), would still not be a doomsday decision for gun control proponents.
Output: Valid
Contrast this with today, where registration schemes have been used in places like new york to provide lists for seizure or surrender of firearms.
Output: Valid
Ok, so are the gun haters claiming the police department are giving the guns criminals use for crime back to the criminals?
Output: Valid
We prove our lawfulness not only when we purchase a new gun, but also CCW people have to pass another background check when they apply for a Concealed Handgun License, then take a test and classes to boot?
Output: Valid
Congress has no specific grant of authority in the Constitution to regulate private ownership of firearms.
Output: Valid
That will take the criminals off the street and with them off the street there are no gun control concerns.
Output: Valid
There are getting to be a heap less that believe like your buddy; statistics from polls are running close to 80% of Americans believe what the 2A says, just as the SCOTUS determined, guns are an individual right!
Output: Valid
Are you saying that people have a right to benefit from having a police force, a military, a fire department, a court system, public schools, etc. but pay nothing for it?
Output: Valid
You're right that gun control isn't about guns, however, but 'control' is a secondary matter, a means to an end.
Output: Valid
Guns in people's homes have prevented them from being victims of violent attacks in countless thousands of cases, and your militia you refer to was composed of regular urban men, not military men and they were armed.
Output: Valid
In a proactive effort to get guns off the streets, the NYPD's Street Crime Units aggressively enforce all gun laws.
Output: Valid
Of course if a hate groups such as the gun haters want to ban a right they will claim this!
Output: Valid
Please show me what law prevents amending the constitution to repeal another amendment.
Output: Valid
To guarantee a right means to guarantee it against laws as well as private criminals, the best they do is guarantee it until someone gets enough political capital to make a law or control the supreme court of the land.
Output: Valid
When we factor in the usefulness of guns for self-defense against violent criminals, it's clear that normal gun owners are at less risk of criminal victimization.
Output: Valid
If the D.C. gun ban was ineffective because illegal guns were leaking into D.C. from other states that would be an argument for having more gun control in other states.
Output: Valid
Republican 2008 presidential hopeful Senator John McCain is standing by his view that the Constitution guarantees everyone the right to carry a weapon although "obviously we have to keep guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens".
Output: Valid
The 2nd Amendment gives citizens the rights to own a gun, not the Militia Act.
Output: Valid
Making guns illegal, requiring background checks, banning scary looking guns, banning certain bullets and reestricting concealed carry to those who are willing to put their name, fingerprints, and such on file does nothing to control crime.
Output: Valid
I'd love to see how gun rationing, ammunition documentation, ending private sales, gun registration, and restriction of right to carry, has helped reduce violence crimes and make things difficult for criminals.
Output: Valid
In sum, we hold that the District���s ban on handgun possession in the home violates the Second Amendment, as does its prohibition against rendering any lawful firearm in the home operable for the purpose of immediate self-defense.
Output: Valid
Lott's More Guns, Less Crime is the bible of the national movement to persuade state legislatures to pass so-called "concealed carry" laws, which permit citizens to carry concealed firearms.
Output: Valid
Gun free zones are zones where law-abiding citizens are forbidden to have guns because law-abiding citizens obey the law about gun free zones.
Output: Valid
And I don't think that the second amendment is a good argument against gun control since the federal courts have not recognized gun-control as being offensive to the second amendment.
Output: Valid
an attempt to undermine the Constitutional rights of gun owners legally to own and operate, KEEP AND BEAR, guns and other weapons of war (arms) that are enshrined in the 2A and now the XIVth Amendment.
Output: Valid
Canada, Switzerland, Finland and scores of other countries allow for legal gun ownership but don't have a higher number of gun deaths than countries where guns are illegal.
Output: Valid
If Africa has no Second Amendment, and thus no legal right for anyone to have access to guns, and thus no legal ground for having gun shops, then why are these guerrillas getting their munitions?
Output: Valid
All that does is imply that crime rate depends on more than just the presence/absence of guns - it disproves 'more guns = more crime' about as much as it disproves 'more guns = less crime'.
Output: Valid
Gun control has certainly become more restrictive during our nations history, and there is frankly no reason why this trend should reverse itself, barring a reversal in how the second amendment is viewed.
Output: Valid
If the Second Amendment doesn't apply to the states then there is no Second Amendment legal protection against state gun laws (which would include any state laws that ban guns in school areas).
Output: Valid
A gun haters is a person that wants gun control laws that infringe on the right to bear arms or wants to ban the right to bear arms.
Output: Valid
states with higher rates of household firearm ownership had significantly higher homicide victimization rates for children, and for women and men.States With Higher Levels Of Gun Ownership Have Higher Homicide Rates
Output: Valid
Since civilian marksmanship programs commonly hold civilians to a higher standard than law enforcement officers, would't that mean that in all propreity we should be working to ban cops carrying guns on planes as opposed to law abiding citizens?
Output: Valid
Students and teachers in schools need to defend themselves, too... Like laws banning guns in sensitive places, concealed carry laws are consistent with Heller���s self-defense rationale only because the Court claimed to limit the arms right to the home.
Output: Valid
For example, and If I could, I would make it a Constitutional amendment that totally barred the government from any knowledge or data of gun owners unless seeking to track down a crime.
Output: Valid
And if a person has had treatment for a mental disorder, they should be given a mandatory psych exam by a neautral doctor before being denied on a gun purchase.
Output: Valid
Other felons, such as car thieves, burglars and whomever else can be convicted of felonies without the use of guns might be considered for a reprieve or a complete release from the ownership ban.
Output: Valid
The Second Amendment reads ���the right of the people to keep and bear arms��_.���
Output: Valid
It is just a case of prevention, remove guns being so easily accessible and you then decrease the gun crime and remove the need for guns to defend yourself.
Output: Valid
Despite what media coverage might seem to indicate, there are more deaths related to high school football than guns.
Output: Valid
The gun show review found that firearms were diverted at and through gun shows by straw purchasers, unregulated private sellers, and licensed dealers.
Output: Valid
The fact that you've committed murder is irrelevant and the only thing that matters is if a person has a gun?
Output: Valid
The gun rights advocates I know are generally not like this, they support rights regardless if whther they agree with how they are being practiced or not.
Output: Valid
It shows a % of the homicides that were committed with guns, but nowhere is there an indication of gun ownership.
Output: Valid
Basically, The US Curcuit Court upheld that the Second Amendment didn't apply to weapons that couldn't be carried by an individual.
Output: Valid
Is there any proof that would show how making it punishable by law to not report your gun lost or stolen, has actually helped the police recover it?
Output: Valid
First you need to be old enough to be able to legally own a weapon and vote to change laws.
Output: Valid
Now I think it does get a little extreme with owning several M-16s, but if I want to own a pistol, a shotgun, and some fancy automatic, well that's my right.
Output: Valid
Yes, the 2nd Amendment is also the final check on the Federal Power, but it is NOT the only purpose for our Inalienable, Constitutionally recognized as protected Right!
Output: Valid
Comparing statistics between different nations can be quite difficult since foreign officials frequently use different standards in compiling crime statistics.
Output: Valid
Imagine the conditions that elicit death in Virginia Tech were the same conditions around the country... When guns are criminalized, only the criminals will have the guns.
Output: Valid
Why do you constantly try and oversimplify things by claiming that gun control will work, while at the same time not discussing matters relating to income, surroundings, upbringing, recidivism rates, prison sentences and other such matters?
Output: Valid
all guns are used for is killing, they are weapons.
Output: Valid
���We���ve never taken issue with law abiding citizens who have a weapon legally,��� said Peter Hamm, communications director of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Output: Valid
I wouldn't mind it as much if there was a law that required some level of training for guns to be purchased, so we know that whoever buys these will no how to defend themselves.
Output: Valid
If you repealed the 2nd amendment or any "incorporated" amendment than that amendment would no longer be law thus not "incorporated" (obviously since there is nothing to incorporate).
Output: Valid
We take the outfitting requirements of the second Militia Act to list precisely those weapons that would have satisfied the two prongs of the Miller arms test.
Output: Valid
Talking about the right to bear arms with anti-gun/gun control advocates is like talking about civil rights with racist.
Output: Valid
Our police are supposed to catch criminals after they have done something, not necessarily stop crime during its comission.
Output: Valid
In other words changing out the barrel on an unrestricted firearm could stick you with a prohibited weapon, and viceversa where a simple barrel change that allow anyone to avoid the law.
Output: Valid
Do not ban guns when guns are the tools of man.
Output: Valid
The right to keep and bear arms is an inalienable right, it is not a policy decision nor a political decision, it is an enumerated RIGHT against all positive forms of government and retained by the people.
Output: Valid
The very nature of police work almost ensures that law enforcement officers will usually arrive after a crime has been committed to take statements, gather evidence and start an investigation.
Output: Valid
Regarding the latter group & their supporters, no current "mainstream" gun control group supports a ban on any type of weapon, except the assault-type.
Output: Valid
"Gun control" is an illegal and unConstitutional fiction for hoplophobes to cling to instead of sucking their fingers or thumb.
Output: Valid
So anti-gunners please stop trying to find creative ways to control gun crime, crime, and avoid the Constitution.
Output: Valid
What contemporary evidence can you cite in support of your claim that the right to keep and bear arms is no broader than the duty.
Output: Valid
Law abiding citizens are not criminals, therefore, they have no reason to use these weapons unless for self defense of oneself or others.
Output: Valid
Of course, every rational person understands that increased death penalty cases and killings results in less money for social services, services which often stop people from going down the path of violent crimes.
Output: Valid
people who want to kill, will kill if you ban guns, they will kill with knives, or something else.
Output: Valid
So in the classroom (where ammunition is prohibited) students handle firearms, and practice "dry firing" them (pulling the trigger when there is no ammunition in the gun.
Output: Valid
With gun control, murders will probably go down just a little, but violent crimes, such as Rape, sexual assult etc, robbery, burglary, and assult will skyrocket.
Output: Valid
Those who admit to being a firearms owner are unlikely to admit to binge drinking, and those who admit they engage in binge drinking are unlikely to admit to owning a firearm.
Output: Valid
Criminals and terrorist are going to have all the guns they want no matter how many security measures enacted to disarm the law-abiding citizen by people such as you.
Output: Valid
Myth No. 12: Automatic rifles and so-called assault weapons are too dangerous to be left in private hands.
Output: Valid
Simply because the state of California has had a prohibition on the carrying of loaded firearms for the past 45 years does not mean any precedent for continuing the prohibition exists.
Output: Valid
High-quality gun locks, or an alternative storage device, should be sold as a requirement of each firearm sale.
Output: Valid
This may include policing or controlling the supply of drugs to an area to cut down and the amount of drugs sold, and thus less crime to support fewer habits.
Output: Valid
You would rather be confronted by a guy with a baseball bat because you are FAR more likely to get killed by the guy with the gun.
Output: Valid
When one undergoes training for a concealed carry permit the training establishes that deadly force is an absolute last resort.
Output: Valid
Michael Moore says in his book Stupid White Men "The idea that having a gun is the only way to ensure 'home protection' is a myth.
Output: Valid
Right now it is against the law for the government to keep a database of gun owners, that that law would have to be changed, and I think you also know this.
Output: Valid
The NRA uses its political muscle to make it easier for criminals to obtain guns.
Output: Valid
Our U.S. Constitution was framed by individuals who believed that armed citizens could protect themselves from tyranny.
Output: Valid
I also took that to the range, and had a whole lot of fun shooting that, so now I have rifles and pistols, several each, and for a variety of different needs and purposes.
Output: Valid
And as far as carrying in public, as long as I have commited no crime, then why should anyone need know I have my gun.
Output: Valid
An automatic weapon would have probably been more dangerous in this situation, especially since the criminal would have had a higher probability of owning an automatic weapon as well.
Output: Valid
The gun control movement needs to look to their leadership and quit spreading lies and disinformation.
Output: Valid
Yet there's no proof that would support the banning of these weapons would provide any measure of safety to anyone other than criminals.
Output: Valid
If you do get banned for asking personal questions, I'm sure you can sue the admin for violation of your first amendment rights emoticonXRolleyes At least with your silly misunderstanding of the constitution.
Output: Valid
Also check out this thread where Lurch makes a very good case for the collective theory of the second amendment.
Output: Valid
Even "If criminals keep their guns",(if we were to confiscate all guns) " they wont be able to use them.
Output: Valid
Members of Congress may be alarmed by the surge in Mexican drug violence and its potential to spill across the border, but they grow silent when the talk turns to gun control as a solution.
Output: Valid
I for one do not say that registration of all privately held firearms would violate the constitution.
Output: Valid
The legislation retained an existing ban on consuming alcohol while carrying a handgun.
Output: Valid
This in turn leads the fringe absolutist wing of the pro-gun camp to try and fight fire with fire, which leads the gun ban crowd to accuse them of being dishonest, etc.
Output: Valid
But that does not change the fact that the law has made the individual into a prohibited person, so that her gun possession is, in itself, a federal felony.
Output: Valid
The existence of the Militia Acts of 1792 would help further show the futility of the "slave holder's argument" for the existence of the Second Amendment.
Output: Valid
If you thought sharks with lasers was bad XXX, wait until you see bees with lasers and poisonous metal stingers and little speakers that can play the Flight of the Bumble Bee as performed by Black Sabbath.
Output: Invalid
We currently have more guns per capita than we have at any time since the 1920's, and crime continues to decline.
Output: Valid
It goes further to suggest we should endorse this action���that our response should be to reward the government for this behavior by surrendering the right it now claims to have made irrelevant.
Output: Valid
If the right to keep and bear arms applies within a privately owned structure designated as a dwelling then it must apply outside as well.
Output: Valid
All that I point out is that Canada, which has very strict gun control laws, also has a much lower murder rate than does the USA.
Output: Valid
We have laws barring foreigners from being able to purchase firearms in America.
Output: Valid
Prohibition led to an increase in organized crime, but that hasn't seemed to happen in nations that have banned guns.
Output: Valid
Yet, the ATF is now under fire for giving guns to criminals in FLORIDA, and they're admired by anti-gunners?
Output: Valid
Is this your logic in denying airline passengers the right to defend themselves?
Output: Valid
The only people that're going to get shot are the ones that're trying to either hurt or kill me or my loved ones.
Output: Valid
The court shall require proof that the applicant has demonstrated competence with a handgun and the applicant may demonstrate such competence by one of the following, but no applicant shall be required to submit to any additional demonstration of competence:
Output: Valid
And finally, and I don't know how exactly to correlate this, how often do people use guns to scare away or otherwise deter attackers?
Output: Valid
Then why haven't those 200,000 people been charged with committing federal offenses by supplying guns to criminals?
Output: Valid
No law shall impose licensure, registration or special taxation on the ownership or possession of firearms or ammunition.
Output: Valid
You probably think he is just afraid to upset gun owners.
Output: Invalid
The civil rights violators claim they want to keep guns out of the wrong hands, when the truth of the matter is you and I "have the wrong hands"
Output: Valid
You will truly earn the label of hypocrisy if you continue to demand that others explain their reasoning behind their positions if you continue to blanch and fall silent when the same is asked of you.
Output: Invalid
The chosen one stated the DC laws were good reasonable gun control until he got bitch slapped by the supreme court.
Output: Valid
The VPC is calling on Congress to pass a new law banning the manufacture and sale of high-capacity magazines capable of holding more than 10 rounds of ammunition.
Output: Valid
No more plea bargains, no more reduced sentences, no more commuted sentences, no more suspended sentences, no more parole.
Output: Valid
Even with regular qualifying required by most agencies, unless an individual is a firearms advocate and practices on his/her own time, most LE members are at best fair shots.
Output: Valid
Another bill that we would like to see go in the trash is the ban on manufacture of machine guns.
Output: Valid
1) Banning guns works, which is why New York, DC, and Chicago cops need guns.
Output: Valid
I bet all those stranded survivors felt safe in New Orleans without guns knowing the Police was there to protect them.
Output: Valid
Secondly, as pointed out many times before - if you're comparing to the UK and the US, looking at violent crime rates is hardly a way to persuade anyone that the US has the right laws.
Output: Valid
In this thread, we see how some people will raise the bar when their opponent is making an argument but lower the bar when they themselves are making an argument.
Output: Invalid
Even if attacks still occur, having civilians with permitted concealed handguns limits the damage.
Output: Valid
Rev. 212; Griswold, The Right to be Let Alone, 55 Nw.
Output: Invalid
Trafficking firearms, ten years for each every gun bought under false pretenses, and another five for each that was sold to a prohibited individual; all served in a consecutive manner rather than concurrently.
Output: Valid
If anything, cops will come to where you live to take your guns, seeing as they work for the government.
Output: Valid
Sticks and stones may break Nato's bones, but words won't hurt him.If our police are that bad Comrade,emoticonXKill hate to see how bad they are across the big water.
Output: Valid
It's like those ridiculous signs I see sometimes 'entering school zone no drugs', as if you would be carrying an illegal substance but now that there is a yellow sign you are going to come clean.
Output: Valid
The Constitution gave Congress the ownership of the beach���the states are free to get sand their shorts as long as Congress looks the other way and does not yell out ���you kids get off my property.���
Output: Valid
Cannibus and other recreational drugs are illegal, so, as a result, big time street dealers rack in more money each year than most respectable businessmen and businesswomen.
Output: Valid
The great majority of weapons found in Mexico are coming from places beyond the American borders, everyone knows this, and there's not an ounce of hard evidence to the contrary.
Output: Valid
That's because we should be obeying laws and not attacking, robbing, raping or otherwise infringing on the rights of others.
Output: Valid
On the news program 20/20 a group of criminals were asked do they obey gun control laws, this group of criminals replied NO!
Output: Valid
If this is the case, then gun laws have a provable effect on how 'armed' criminals are - more gun control = less gun-carrying criminals, fact.
Output: Valid
Let's say that it's determined that the militia referred to in the Second Amendment truly is all able-bodied citizens of a certain age and without a criminal record.
Output: Valid
Instead of worrying about where the guns originally came from, we should be more concerned with how far this scandal reaches into the government.
Output: Valid
:"Arms in the hands of citizens (may) be used at individual discretion...in private self-defense..." 1788(A Defense of the Constitution of the Government of the USA, p.471)
Output: Valid
You're saying that the Constitution should be changed and updated to meet the times in any manner that the government believes would be in their best interest, or even repealed outright and entirely.
Output: Valid
And yet, as we've shown countless times, and the news media continues to report, the scenes of the most violence and death are always the places where you're legally forbidden from carrying a gun.
Output: Valid
And why would the Pennsylvanians include an individual right to bear arms in their Constitution at about the same time they included this restriction if they were were so worried about loyalists owning guns?"
Output: Valid
HE was saying that every man needed a gun, but that they shouldn;t go overboard because providing every man with 2 guns would be too expensive.
Output: Valid
In a way they're waving their fifth amendment rights in trying to sue somebody, because to do such they need to incriminate themselves as having been involved in a crime in order to have a leg to stand on.
Output: Valid
that most violent crime is commited with out a weapon and that when a firearm is used 87% of the time it is a handgun (not an AK47, witch is a hollywood favorit, but not truth).
Output: Valid
100 years after the Constitution was passed a new ignition system and bullet design was brought into mass production, the Second Amendment wasn't out of date then.
Output: Valid
Lott and Whitley found that not only did such laws not save lives, they cost lives by making it more difficult to have a firearm ready for a sudden emergency.
Output: Valid
You make a legitimate point: the right to bear arms may no longer afford much real protection against would-be despots, and judging from the arguments made in this debate, it may even have lost much of its symbolic value.
Output: Valid
The fact that governments around the world have killed their own citizens after disarming them does not mean that they should not be armed, it means that the citizens should not be disarmed.
Output: Valid
Many thousands of Guns are stolen and used in GUN CREATED CRIME because most legal gun owners
Output: Valid
Do you feel the accessibility issue is one that will be pursued, perhaps to an eventuality of gun control advocates seeking legislation barring firearms in households where minor children are present?
Output: Valid
You talked about gun ownership violating the 14th Amendment's equal protection clause because blacks were victimized more than whites.
Output: Valid
If the burglar is armed with any deadly weapon (knife, crowbar, gun, etc) then the sentence range is not less than 20 years up to life imprisonment.
Output: Valid
They note the double standard that allows ''elites'' to carry guns, or have their children protected by armed bodyguards.
Output: Valid
You could do a much more compelling speech as to why not have guns...especially if small children are invovled...especially when guns are so incredibly easy to get.....ask your local postman!
Output: Valid
The ruling didn't lay any groundwork for analyzing the legality of gun bans established by various entities, or laws keeping certain people from buying and owning guns, it did none of that.
Output: Valid
voiceofreason, can you explane why the second amendment is preceded by an individual right, and followed by individual rights, in a document that is laying out what the goverment cannot do to it's people?
Output: Valid
The issue for me is not whether any gun control can exist, but where to strike the proper balance between public safety and respecting a fundamental individual right.
Output: Valid
Firearms such as the AR-15 and AK-47 have been around for well over half a century and are widespread in ownership and popularity and have more or less become mainstream with the public.
Output: Valid
Another defense mechanism commonly utilized by supporters of gun control is denial.
Output: Valid
All of the gun control laws the gun haters want will only be obeyed by the law abiding citizens!
Output: Valid
They never said anything about allowing bans on commonly owned firearms, or ammunition, or allowing for heinous restrictions that wouldn't be considered constitutional when applied to other rights.
Output: Valid
We have more crime than fully armed countries not because we don't have guns.
Output: Valid
Reports show that a small percentage of gun owners actually use a gun to defend themselves, there are more killed with a gun, than those using a gun to protect themselves, they cain't say it's used for selfdefense.
Output: Valid
You said that if we truly supported the true meaning of the Second Amendment then we'd be pushing for our right to drill and assemble as a militia.
Output: Valid
Leone���s office filed an appeal in the state appeals court, disputing a Lowell District Court decision to dismiss gun charges against a Billerica man for improperly storing a firearm and possessing a firearm without a valid firearm identification card.
Output: Valid
Machine guns are not in common use so I see no reason to believe restrictions on them would be lifted based on the ruling.
Output: Valid
The only time in my life I have seen someone who owned a gun use it against some one they got into an argument with was when that person was under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
Output: Valid
It evolved into a discussion about how a violent encounter was (by some) preferable to be entered with fists rather than guns, as it would be less dangerous.
Output: Valid
I'm willing to bet that the main reason for America's crime rates is the fact that we have too much diversity in gun laws.
Output: Valid
After opposition from the National Rifle Association, 22 Democrats joined Republicans in a Senate vote this month to negate the District of Columbia's tough gun registration requirements and overturn its ban on rapid-fire semiautomatic weapons.
Output: Valid
Though I think we're gun obsessed in our culture, and a lot of times, we can defend ourselves more effectively without guns.
Output: Valid
There has been no legitimate study presented to show that those who own firearms are more likely to engage in binge drinking than any other person.
Output: Valid
It is these small time criminals that allow others to commit school massacares and liquior store shootings by selling firearms to these criminals.
Output: Valid
Seeing as we are saying would having a gun have stopped the 9/11 attacks you have to assume that you have smuggled one on.
Output: Valid
While courts will review with exacting scrutiny alleged violations of many constitutional rights, they typically defer entirely to the legislative will when the government seeks to take private property through eminent domain."
Output: Valid
Like I said before, claiming that semi-automatic rifles get a lower level of constitutional protection than handguns because they are less useful for self defense seems absurd from historical point of view.
Output: Valid
Authorities allege the gun dealer sold more than 650 AK-47-type assault weapons to Mexican drug gangs responsible for recent shootouts that have claimed dozens of lives.
Output: Valid
A much higher gun ownership rate than other developed nations could explain this- that although crime occurs less frequently in the US crime is more likely to involve guns in the US so someone is more likely to die.
Output: Valid
The 2nd Amendment does NOT provide an individual the Right to own gun(s) for the PURPOSE OF providing for: food, self-defense, target practice, a hobby as a collector, or fun.
Output: Valid
Then why do nations which ban guns have a much lower gun crime rate than the US?
Output: Valid
if a criminal knows that 90% of the people that are walking around where armed and knew how to responsibly use their weapon, crime would take a huge drop.
Output: Valid
Firearm trace data does not meet the burden of proof necessary to support the claim that federally licensed dealer #579248 sold multiple firearms to criminals in a deliberate and willful manner in blatant defiance of the set laws.
Output: Valid