niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
As a gun-owner and/or strong 2nd Amendment advocate, its importance cannot be overstated, and I do believe it has the potential to render a slew of local, state and federal laws null and void.
Output: Valid
A so-called assault weapon has no more kill potential than a firearm that doesn't fit the definition of an assault weapon.
Output: Valid
We don���t stockpile these forms we have copied because we have no use for them once the particular prosecution has ended and we have precious little space to store the legitimate criminal files we already have.
Output: Valid
This is rather like saying that, since there are many statutes that authorize aggrieved employees to ���file complaints��� with federal agencies, the phrase ���file complaints��� has an employment-related connotation.
Output: Valid
The constitution is a great and noble document that was written a long time ago, and as times have changed, it makes sense that the laws must change as well.
Output: Valid
Biggest problem we have with guns is actually modified starting pistols rather than smuggled guns, our gangs not quite measure up to yours, despite what many of them would like to think ;)
Output: Valid
All the gun control issues seem to have disappeared since our current decent noble President has taken office.
Output: Valid
And before everyone starts, NO I'm not saying that America is a dictatorship nor were the founding fathers dictators, just that a constitution needs to be flexible in order to accommodate the needs of their people as times change.
Output: Valid
[4] What's more, tragic stories of accidental or unintentional shootings from the careless storage of guns at home are all too common.
Output: Valid
These laws are all part of the gun grabbers` wholesale attack on private gun ownership.
Output: Valid
If you suddenly say, 'Aah, but it is okay if our glorious leader violates that right occasionally', then the right is completely lost.
Output: Valid
You are arguing in favor of charging someone with a crime after they were shown to be a victim of crime by having their private property stolen.
Output: Valid
Because each Country's stats per 100,000 are in accordance with their own population numbers, then by adding up the numbers in each category and totalling them as Great Britains total per 100,000 is totally accurate.
Output: Invalid
People who can read and write most often know the difference in right and wrong...then we got the Constitution as a guide.
Output: Valid
If we're going to ban guns,we might as well bans knives,fireworks,and even computers.
Output: Valid
An interesting question will be how the court views the registration requirements when a felon gets caught with an ���unregistered��� firearm.
Output: Valid
Amendment enjoyed a resurgence of published writing, and some of those writers began publishing reviews of Miller suggesting it was in fact an individual right���s supportive opinion.
Output: Invalid
These are supposedly to be used as combination building assault rifles and sniper rifles, though they have 11" barrels, which makes them (as far as I am concerned) of questionable value as a sniper rifle.
Output: Valid
And if the ones we already have aren't being enforced just like all the other laws, why should we believe that new gun laws will be enforced better than their predecessors?
Output: Valid
The report cites both studies that do find positive effects and studies that do not find positive effects.
Output: Valid
Governments are addicted to removing people's rights, and every effort should be made to prevent them from doing so.
Output: Valid
Gun traces are requested for any gun that's in police custody for any reason.
Output: Valid
No, they just don't 'fear' in general, their fears are directed at something (madmen with guns ;)), and those that do find other ways to feel protected (usually in society rather than being a lone individual).
Output: Valid
* Ease of committing crime - carrying a gun makes committing crime a lot easier, due to both it's intimidatory power and massive (&ranged) lethality.
Output: Valid
Police do not know how many guns are in the state or where they are.
Output: Valid
This is exactly the point where the "collective right" gun controllers go completely off on their tangent that is completely unsupported constitutionally speaking.
Output: Valid
Means of drug access is a heavy contributing factor to allot of the gun crime we have here in the USA.
Output: Valid
The Sunday Telegraph's figures suggest that the Metropolitan Police's official tally of 3,300 gun crimes in 2006/7, the most recent available, would have risen to around 5,000 if excluded categories had been counted.
Output: Valid
(67 deaths per 100,000) This category includes flight engineers and pilots of both commercial and smaller aircraft including crop dusters and air taxis.
Output: Valid
If the court in Aymette thought the RKBA to have no individual component, why would they even make a distinction between concealed weapons and weapons carried openly.
Output: Valid
You somehow seem to think that getting rid of guns will stop people from killing each other.
Output: Valid
The only law I even somewhat support is banning guns in certain areas like schools and colleges.
Output: Valid
What the Court is saying, at least to me, is that if you can prove the firearm you have has some usefulness for militia service then the 2nd.
Output: Valid
It's the same with guns - if each person had to take the five minutes to register their gun themselves, it would save massive amounts of time in the long run.
Output: Valid
And on and on, with every order having the secondary effect of becoming a lifetime ban on gun possession.
Output: Valid
The manufacturer tells them who the gun was shipped to, the dealer is contacted, and the dealer informs the ATF or the police of who the gun was sold to and when.
Output: Valid
But I apprehend it will be more clear and easy, to consider many of them as duties required from, rather than as rights belonging to, particular persons.
Output: Valid
So that means that even if my handguns were taken away my FN FAL, AR-10, AR-15, AK-47, Mossberg 590 and other military-styled long guns would be protected and exempt?
Output: Valid
Patriot, your right to keep and bear arms is not so that you can blow away the guy your wife cheated on you with.
Output: Valid
They are the ones that will ignore reason and just yell their opinions even if they know they are lies and won't work.
Output: Valid
Having bows as unleiscened is a bit odd, but they are not really fantastic weapons for criminals.
Output: Valid
The tax process, the actual control point, takes about 90-days for the transfer of any class 3 weapon, which documents the seller, the licensed class 3 selling transfer agent, the licensed receiving class 3 transfer agent and the buyer.
Output: Valid
Gun owners don't drive into crowds of people simply because they had a gun in their car.
Output: Valid
Absolutely nobody could own a handgun unless it was registered before 1976, and in 1977 the registration program was ended and served as a de-facto ban.
Output: Valid
First, the doctors devised and published epidemiological studies in medical journals, which showed that the problem of gun injuries is large and serious.
Output: Valid
Its liberals like you who make it easy for criminals to get their hands on guns and liberals like you who make it possible for them to be used in the murders for which your nation is famed.
Output: Valid
The fact that you are 57 times more likely to be killed by someone with a firearm in the US, than in the UK, cannot be completely discounted in this discussion.
Output: Valid
Now you may conjecture that the Founders accidentally used a subordinate clause in the 2nd amendment.
Output: Valid
Well let me first get to this just so everyone will know which side of the gun issue im on, I am an avid gun owner and I support any laws that target criminals while unafecting lawfull gun owners.
Output: Valid
I would support any law that target criminals, but I will not support you as long as you target lawfull gun owners.
Output: Valid
So it seems that in the case of DC the justification for protecting the right to bear arms is lacking.
Output: Valid
I have to wonder what incorporation under the XIVth amendment will do to all the knee jerk laws that were passed as crime control and is proven bad law already.
Output: Valid
I don`t reallly see the inconsistency unless you view the right to keep andbear arms as a right that should be protected.
Output: Valid
You're STILL failing to prove that individual gun ownership is an outdated belief that should be abandoned!
Output: Valid
One of our basic rights as Americans is the Right to Bear Arms.
Output: Valid
A gun is made by the company for the purpose of being bought by the consumers and to generate revenue to keep the economy going.
Output: Valid
If a gun used to commit crimes isn't found in the registry, then the registry isn't much of a valuable crime fighting tool is it?
Output: Valid
Well it appears the safety Nazis have nothing to say about the drug criminals ability to get drugs and guns aboard commercial airplanes.
Output: Valid
That's kinda like letting social services treat parents like potential sex offenders, simply because they have children.
Output: Valid
What about the fact that the UK feels the need to ban knives and toy guns now?
Output: Valid
I have never seen anyone attempt to stop a prosecution of a gun use/possession crime on 2nd.
Output: Valid
In other words, I was saying that if the ATF is underfunded then it will be harder for them to catch the criminals and thus it will less likely that criminals will be punished.
Output: Valid
That is plainly an anti-authoritarian, barbaric and paranoid state of society which has no faith in it's democratic and legal system.
Output: Valid
I call it an article because it's not the actual study that we were linked to, merely the abstract of the study that gives tidbits of information but not the overall picture.
Output: Valid
By that brand of logic, any gun law is specifically aimed at reducing criminal use of guns, including a complete ban.
Output: Valid
Deny, if you can, that your previous position defined the phrase ���right to keep and bear arms��� as a right of the states to equip the militias with both arms and ammunition.
Output: Valid
Gun owners would have to be evaluated by how they scored on written and firing tests, and have to pass the tests in order to own a gun.
Output: Valid
Oh, and sliiiick, when you can get criminals to stop stealing, buying from government sources and taking guns from dead victims, the military and dirty agencies/cops do let me know all right?
Output: Valid
The argument of Lautenberg and others is that if somebody is deemed too dangerous or suspicious to board an airplane, they shouldn't be permitted to buy a weapon.
Output: Valid
As I sit here smoking my illegally imported Cuban cigar, I find myself seriously doubting that a ban on guns is likely to diminish the supply to those who still wish to posess them.
Output: Valid
If redrawing the ���lines��� in ���sensitive places��� is the way to justify this ban, then the ���lines��� would have to be changed from specific points (like schools, courthouses, etc.) to include the entire world outside a man���s home.
Output: Valid
The question is whether or not it really matters if guns were used less for self defense and more for aggression.
Output: Valid
If it was just a gun thing then they could go from internation flights from countries with no guns, but it isn't.
Output: Valid
The prefatory phrase is a rationale for the non-infringement of the right of the people to keep and bear arms, however the prefatory phrase does NOT qualify "the right" or "the people".
Output: Valid
The belief that self-defense and the ability of anyone to exercise an unalienable right pre-existing the Constitution and ratified the BILL OF RIGHTS clearly and unmistakeably to the people as an individual and fundamental right is Supreme.
Output: Valid
The second amendment was included in the constitution as insurance against a time when it is not so unlikely.
Output: Valid
To me the language seems like what DC had, which allowed them to ban all semi-automatic firearms because somebody somewhere might have made a magazine that holds more than 12 rounds of ammunition.
Output: Valid
I also say that when people commit a crime with a gun these people need to be punished not the law-abiding citizens!
Output: Valid
A gun ban would make guns on the same level as drugs....
Output: Valid
The laws of some states with regard to what firearms may and may not be owned do in no way validate the comparison between privately owned firearms and fireworks sold by licensed distributors.
Output: Valid
Since gun owners are not proposing that we ban automobiles, there is an obvious flaw in their logic.
Output: Valid
But that fact didn't stop you from arguing that the Second Amendment was a purely racist tool designed to keep blacks in their place and under their master's thumb.
Output: Valid
Are we arguing that students/faculty/staff members can be trusted to carry concealed while shopping on aisle 7 for ice cream���but they cannot be trusted to carry concealed while learning about geology or history?
Output: Valid
Gun nuts are obviously so unstable and irritable, that should one wanting a gun should be automatically disqualified from ownership.
Output: Valid
On their "about us" page, it says they are composed of public health professionals, researchers, and lawyers.
Output: Invalid
It is here, on this blog site, that we see people abandon reasons and common sense to play this blame game.
Output: Invalid
I would love to own a gun just for show!
Output: Invalid
You promote gun control even though it is a civil and Constitutional UNALIENABLE RIGHT.
Output: Valid
Henry Knox later served as sec of state and "declared" the amendments during martial law and reconstruction to be approved and ratified by the States which was impossible since those State Legislators were prevented from meeting/adjourning.
Output: Valid
* Besides Craigslist, unlicensed sellers also offered arms at alarmingly high rates with no questions asked at Armslist, Gunlistings, Glocktalk and the classified section of Utah news website KSL.com.
Output: Valid
Chick-A-Filet does not prohibit anyone nor deny them service, the minority public and a couple of mayors are trying to foist their prejudice on the company to make them adopt their opposing viewpoint and that is unConstitutional.
Output: Valid
Country comparisons - as countries with similar poverty levels, etc do exist, so differences can be minimised.
Output: Invalid
According to the Laws here, even the Home, car, or other property is not considered enough to use deadly force.
Output: Valid
Criminals using grenades in the United States would mostly likely target people tied to the criminal world, rather than civilians.
Output: Valid
Hey doofus, you made no effort to qualify if those people were licensed carriers or just had a gun in the house or vault at the bank.
Output: Valid
You are hoping people won't be lazy, etc, but that's just that; you are hoping people will act accordingly when you tell them what to do.
Output: Valid
When I was a kid, it was offered in elementary school as an after school class that they had for 5 days.
Output: Invalid
I've got a better question for the gun control supporters out there.
Output: Invalid
Rule number 1 of gun safety, always ALWAYS assume a firearm is loaded.
Output: Valid
What I wrote was the complete truth; there have been many cases where a gun was left unattended, a snake came and wrapped itself around the trigger, and shot somebody.
Output: Valid
If my kid encounters a gun while playing at another's home I'll get involved in gun safety education.
Output: Valid
For that matter, why not arrest people for breaking any gun law, not just those relating to handguns?
Output: Valid
So if someone wants to protect themself from a wild animal do they need a gun?
Output: Valid
First you tried to link the existence of the second amendment with incidents of criminal deeds.
Output: Valid
May your friends be the same :) You put your ideas in print so I think you should be denied your 2A rights as you advocate.
Output: Valid
From ���93 to ���98 I defended persons charged with various crimes, including crimes of capital murder.
Output: Invalid
But surely you must recognize that this is a futile law that has holes big enough for even the most nefarious to drive a 747 through.
Output: Valid
To make it otherwise we would need some legislation requiring Mr. Patel to accept firearms at his motel which would survive a constitutional challenge claiming that it: 1.
Output: Valid
You can't exercise your rights in an attempt to deprive others of theirs.
Output: Valid
One of the reason we are the country we are is because of our right to own guns.
Output: Valid
All I am saying, and what others are saying, is that the Government acts on our behalf.
Output: Valid
Pro-gunners what criminals in the street, the mall, and the neighborhood to be unarmed; and the good guys armed.
Output: Valid
I also think that we also need for our legal profession to inforce our laws on the criminals.
Output: Valid
If a safe opportunity to retreat arises, and you do not choose to take it, and as a result of that choice you must use lethal force, then when the cops get there you are going to be in trouble.
Output: Valid
Teachers and business professionals use them for instructional purposes, while police officers and soldiers still use them for target acquisition.
Output: Valid
So somebody try and tell us, that with stuff like this going on, that America still needs to overhaul its gun laws to bring them more in line with those of Mexico.
Output: Valid
I think I've been pretty consistent in stating that every business is private and that the 'simulation' if you will of being a public area is carried on only up to the degree they decide.
Output: Valid
That clause in the constitution is an artifact of nationalism, it has no objective justification.
Output: Valid
From my perspective, its pretty clear that guns in cities are not tied to militia service.
Output: Valid
The first call was an attempt to change and attack Florida's gun laws.
Output: Valid
I keep hearing about assault weapons "mowing people down", yet nobody has ever managed to provide me with an example of this.
Output: Valid
It wasn't until Jews for Preservation of Gun Rights, GOA and SAF came along that people were able to select a worthy substitute.
Output: Valid
When neither party to a transaction is a licensed firearms dealer, firearms transfers must be completed through a licensed dealer.
Output: Valid
The right to bear arms is protected by the Constitutions of Virginia and of the United States.
Output: Valid
My biggest disagreement is that I think one should carry any weapon one decides to.
Output: Valid
In some states, some guns are just not allowed and it sticks as a law.
Output: Valid
However, I do feel that there should be very strict laws on who can purchase assault weapons.
Output: Valid
You can't honestly be saying that your willing to watch your plan fail on a grand scale simply because you fail to address an issue like this, are you?
Output: Invalid
If he would have had 10 round McCarthy political correct magazines, or the standard capacity mags, the Hero Lady WOULD NOT have been able to grab it.
Output: Valid
That's because you'd be hard pressed to find something with the intimidation potential of a lethal weapon; nobody fears for their life when they're looking down the business end of a taser.
Output: Valid
Similar semiautomatic firearms with high-capacity magazines have been used in most major mass shootings in the United States in the past 30 years.
Output: Valid
You need to give enough fire to keep everybodies head down and their attention focused.
Output: Valid
For Madison, a bill of rights provided a second chance for his pet project: to obtain the congressional veto of state laws that he had tried, but failed, to achieve at the 1787 Convention.
Output: Invalid
Also, I find it odd that you claim that we are made afraid of everything and everyone, yet you seem afraid of an armed populace.
Output: Valid
This little bit of information tells us nothing about the relationship between gun ownership and suicide.
Output: Valid
It is a crime to be caught with a loaded gun in public (not at a private residence however, privacy laws and all that)
Output: Valid
Even if we found a way to totally dis-invent guns, does anyone think, in this day of suicide bombers, that this guy could not of thought of another way to implement his carnage?
Output: Valid
But I have enough spare barrels, ejectors, extractors and slides that if I were to commit a nefarious act it is a simple matter to replace same and melt down the used ones.
Output: Valid
Until you meet someone who exercises THEIR right, and decides that their life is more valuable than yours.
Output: Valid
The point is not sickness patterns, but lethal lead patterns, which occurrence is minimised by sufficient regulation.
Output: Valid
The gentleman himself has only endeavoured to controvert the force of the evidence by law, but no law can be found to justify such conduct as either of these persons was guilty of, and particularly Dr Reynolds.
Output: Invalid
You have ABSOLUTELY NO right to force them to do business with you.
Output: Invalid
When you get right down to it, I do not believe that we (Law Enforcement) are any more trustworthy than the general populace, yet I would also say that the reverse is true.
Output: Valid
Keep the people under control...and protect their rights?
Output: Valid
If guns are banned, the only people that will be affected will be the people that buy guns for protection from criminals, who get their guns illegally anyway.
Output: Valid
I've been told by gun activists that the second amendment protects a limited right and therefore people can be banned from owning WMD's.
Output: Valid
Thus, if petitioners are correct, the Second Amendment protects citizens' right to use a gun in an organization from which Congress has plenary authority to exclude them.
Output: Valid
Some gun control advocates try to say that the word ���people��� here refers to a collective body of people, (a state) meaning there is no personal right to keep and bear arms.
Output: Valid
Let's be honest, it won't result in any more or less gun deaths and even if it resulted in more gun deaths it would be worth having the amendment.
Output: Valid
Cox and the other defendants face charges of conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit kidnapping and conspiracy to commit arson, in addition to gun charges and other crimes.
Output: Valid
So,in your opinion,are you saying that this invading force that you are talking about,would never bat an eye as to whether the people of the USA are armed to the teeth or not in their pre-war planning?
Output: Valid
This makes sense when you consider that the second amendment protects the right of the people to bear arms in connection with an organized militia.
Output: Valid
If a person does not want to own or carry a gun then so be it, and if an individual does own guns then like wise.
Output: Valid
Another reason kalifornia's ban on open carry being wrong is the application of McDonald into the 14th Amendment of Civil Rights which bars States from infringing in any way on the right to keep and bear arms.
Output: Valid
Define 'gun show' to include specialized gun events, as well as flea markets and other markets outside of licensed firearms shops at which 50 or more firearms, in total, are offered for sale by 2 or more persons.
Output: Valid
Indeed, the right to keep and bear arms���which we have explained pre-existed, and therefore was preserved by, the Second Amendment���was subject to restrictions at common law.
Output: Valid
Criminals will not be stopped from taking guns into gun free zones because criminals do not obey laws!
Output: Valid
Those who hat the 2nd Amendment want to use crime and murder rates to put more limits on the law-abiding gun owners, even when they are near historic lows.
Output: Valid
So even if 2.5 million crimes are prevented by firearms each year then that would be less than 25,000 lives saved by guns each year.
Output: Valid
Previous 9th Circuit rulings, stating that the Second Amendment was purely a tool of government to maintain the National Guard rather than guaranteeing the right of the individual to be armed, were never taken up by the SCOTUS.
Output: Valid
It is always interesting that gun haters throw out the nuke and missile scare tactic every time a person defends no limits on the right to bear arms.
Output: Valid
Gun control laws do not affect criminals because criminals do not obey these laws.
Output: Valid
Gun control laws do not deprive gun ownership for those who do not follow laws.
Output: Valid
The only case you could possibly make is more accidents with more guns at gun shows.
Output: Valid
I think some of the courts that have quoted that sentence from Heller to justify laws that ban felons from owning firearms would disagree.
Output: Valid
As for the second amendment and whether gun ownership is a right or a priviledge we can discuss later.
Output: Valid
(4) a weapon made from a rifle if such weapon as modified has an overall length of less than 26 inches or a barrel or barrels of less than 16 inches in length;
Output: Valid
Scalia's analysis of whether or not handguns are a type of weapon protected by the Second Amendment was necessary to reach a decision on the Constitutionality of D.C.'s handgun ban.
Output: Valid
if guns were banned things such like amo&things;used to build guns would be banned to so how could they build their own?????
Output: Valid
As we all know the old saying all men are created equal no longer applies as only the famous, rich or powerful deserve the right to defend themselves.
Output: Valid
Gun ownership isn't much of a deterrent when ALL GUNS ARE CONFISCATED BY FORCE UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH FOR NONCOMPLIANCE!
Output: Valid
Sure you say guns don't kill people but people kill people, but the gun is only a tool or a means to that end.
Output: Valid
Gun hater Sarah Brady like al gun hater blame the right to bear arms for the crimes committed with guns.
Output: Valid
Because if almost a million lives saved every year isn't support for keeping guns legal, 10,000 (or whatever % of crime) deaths makes absolutely no case for having them banned.
Output: Valid
My argument would be OK, since there is no means to facilitate the organization of the people then being "duly armed" with machine guns, rocket launchers and anti-tank missiles is not protected by the 2nd Amendment.
Output: Valid
That should fly IF government can dictate your rights or lack thereof if you own a gun which is embedded now in the XIVth Amendment.
Output: Valid
Therefore, we should not allow anyone to carry a gun on a plane, because these people may either be law abiding or not.
Output: Valid
Guns don't kill people, people kill people: absolutely true, but guns allow people to kill people with greater efficiency, which is not necessarily a good thing outside of the battlefield.
Output: Valid
No, but they might like to challenge the conclusion that states with less strict firearm laws are more often the source of guns used in crimes, in other states, than guns from states with stricter gun laws.
Output: Valid
The DOJ reports that less than 10% (7% to be exact) of criminals purchase their guns at dealers or gun shows.
Output: Valid
A lot of white supremacists, terrorists, blah blah, visit gun stores too, they sometimes buy guns there, sometimes not.
Output: Valid
The illusion that the English government had protected its citizens by disarming them seemed credible because few realized the country had an astonishingly low level of armed crime even before guns were restricted.
Output: Valid
The proper thing to do if one wishes to remove the rights guaranteed by the second amendment, is to repeal it, not for politically alinged judges to make rulings based on politics and ignoring all historical evidence to the contrary.
Output: Valid
Why do gun haters pass laws that keep law abiding citizens from having guns?
Output: Valid
Strange isn't where the law abiding are disarmed by the gun control idea of wet dream laws yet there are still firearms floating about the criminal classes.
Output: Valid
That's why my paper suggests a 28th Amendment limiting individual access to excessively destructive weapons that threaten society, while preserving the common-sense meaning of the individual right protected by the text of the 2nd Amendment.
Output: Valid
In my entire experience, the only ones I have seen that support gun control are criminals, those whose proclavity honors dictators, and outright socialists, totalitarians and traitors.
Output: Valid
Gun control laws only control the guns in the hands of people who follow laws.
Output: Valid
The anti gun/gun control advocate way at dealing with deaths caused by guns is to limit the right to bear arms.
Output: Valid
I want to see, in the Constitution, where government has an affirmative duty to protect anyone much less "ensure that felons and other prohibited persons do not possess firearms.
Output: Valid
Please note that the argument is that the reason people shall have the right to keep and bear arms is in order to maintain a well regulated militia.
Output: Valid
The National Rifle Association is highly effective at motivating gun owners to protect their right to bear arms.
Output: Valid
Obviously, using the second amendment to oppose laws regulating such weapons is highly questionably."
Output: Valid
So if you support every amendment made to the constitution pertaining to guns, than I submit your not to interested in owning a gun.
Output: Valid
But it appears that support for gun control is higher when people are asked about specific gun laws rather than just a general question about stricter gun control.
Output: Valid
This should be a clear indicator that legal ownership of guns in no way has increased potential criminality for law abiding citizens.
Output: Valid
British people who do not own guns and have gleaned all their knowledge of American gun ownership from' Bowling for Columbine' and Dirty Harry films have a perfect right to criticise gun owning American citizens.
Output: Valid
If so, they need to explain why they would leave some firearms, handguns say, in the hands of the people which are involved in more officer deaths than the ones they recommend banning.
Output: Valid
So what difference does having a gun make when the eggers have guns too?
Output: Valid
Why are there gun control laws in place that haven't been ruled unconstitutional, since obviously the antigun position doesn't matter, and the second amendment is clear enough all by itself?
Output: Valid
Guns are extremely dangerous, and thats why schools which are gun free zones as are churches are not targeted by violent criminals while guns shows and reenactments are replete with criminal violence.
Output: Valid
It is true that guns are responsible for the majority of murders but knives are number two and cars are considered weapons by the police.
Output: Valid
Americans used guns initially as tools for individual self-protection and hunting, but by the time of the American Revolution, firearms became symbols of citizenship, intimately tied to defending political rights.
Output: Valid
Knives are used almost as often if not more so in crimes than are guns, the reason nobody is pushing to ban knives is because knives don't have the same negative cultural association guns have.
Output: Valid
Criminals, predators, and thugs are going to be here weather we want them to be or not.
Output: Valid
In fact, I'd say any parent who actually enjoys hitting their child doesn't have a right to be a parent.
Output: Valid
The Bradys will say that it is unlikely for that to happen, but it is even more unlikely for a policeman to encounter a deranged criminal armed with a 5.7mm pistol loaded with armor piercing ammunition.
Output: Valid
Even if all gun sales were recorded the same way, it wouldn't have done any good if Cho had a clean record to begin with and chose to carry out the massacre regardless.
Output: Valid
The medium of 'free speech' has changed, but that does not affect that free speech should still exist - just as with the other constitutional points (with a few exceptions, if you believe Bush).
Output: Valid
When that design changed the barrel was moved to be more in line with the stock, taking the bend away and giving the shooter nothing to hold onto, so the pistol grip was introduced.
Output: Valid
I already said children could tote around their parents guns.
Output: Valid
Most violent crime with guns occurs at knife fighting range.
Output: Valid
Foolish is denying our civilian firearms are in Mexico in huge numbers.
Output: Valid
Roughly one person would die every minute if guns were banned.
Output: Valid
Concealed carry holders do know how much force is "legitimate" or rather lawful.
Output: Valid
I for one do NOT consider them a Constitutional enterprise and if they were stupid enough to think that the AFT would protect them instead of selling them out that is the same as admission for criminal intent.
Output: Valid
The downside of this is SCOTUS is supposed to force the discussion to only be about things that must be resolved to answer the question presented.
Output: Valid
It's a sad world we live in where certain life forms find it necessary to fly planes into buildings.
Output: Valid
But as I said at the beginning, this is only about Europe; the US already have too many guns around to get rid of them all.
Output: Valid
What's worse is that an officer may have to examine five hundred or even five thousand cars just to find a single gun.
Output: Valid
Maybe the vast majority of gun owners aren't as opposed to
Output: Invalid
Australia, for example, hasn't had one single mass shooting since it passed stricter gun laws over ten years ago.
Output: Valid
XIII, �_ 3 (1820), in 4 id., at 2150, 2163 (���[T]hat their right to bear arms in defence of themselves and of the State cannot be questioned���).
Output: Valid
Before the Brady Law any criminal could walk into a gun store and easily purchase a gun.
Output: Valid
We haven't allowed international law standards to violate our constitutional rights when it comes to privacy, religion, redress of the government, search warrants, public assembly or other standards.
Output: Valid
If C says ���OK let���s register the transfer and my new possession as the law directs��� then B will say no and keep the gun���and the gun stays off the database.
Output: Valid
Muggings, burglaries, rapes, assault and battery are all examples of violent crimes that don't require a gun.
Output: Valid
Like the brady crowd of malcontents as I have posted here before, they accomplished their goal and wouldn't stop there, then they went after more to keep the money coming in.
Output: Valid
Medical coding consists of classifying medical procedures and diagnostics for billing purposes.
Output: Invalid
The fact is if you aren't military oror a farmer a gun is a toy and used in a recreational manner.
Output: Valid
The government is smart enough to realize that criminals would have guns, its not something thats just overlooked."
Output: Valid
For decades we have proved drug cases by having a scientist who tests the drug submit an affidavit which says ���its cocaine��� or ���its marijuana������without having to call the scientist to testify about his findings.
Output: Invalid
Typicall response from the liberals on this thread has been to devise a plan to control crime, then worry about the civil rights violations later.
Output: Valid
I would imagine that in most cases where guns are stolen and not reported, the owner does not realize they have been stolen.
Output: Valid
This is alluded to several times in commentaries on the constitution, as well as being the primary topics of several papers by Jefferson.
Output: Invalid
Pro-gunners are fond of saying things like "we don't need more gun-control laws, we need tougher punishments and longer prison sentences."
Output: Valid
Some people have argued that because these rights are not only fundamental but are also couched in terms without limitation in the amendment then they must be viewed as ���absolutely inviolable��� and cannot ever be restricted in any way.
Output: Valid
I'd love to know what firearms are made and sold but have no constitutional protection for ownership.
Output: Valid
Even if you just figure kids under five who live in homes where guns are kept, coffee tables are a bigger killer.
Output: Valid
According to them, the rights contained int he bill of rights predate the constitution, and as such are untouchable.
Output: Valid
"What's the matter" would be liberal courts that will readily rule in favor of government without consideration for the rights of the people.
Output: Valid
Because the purpose of the US Bill of Rights is to grant or guarantee rights, not to prohibit or curtail personal freedoms.
Output: Valid
Or that the police can be sued for damages when they choose to break the law to persecute an innocent bystander?
Output: Invalid
But if you're trying to make the case that widespread, American style gun ownership is wrong, that we should adopt the standards of countries like Japan and Germany and Mexico, then I advise you to leave.
Output: Valid
The ruling in Lopez was the federal government had no jurisdiction in firearms on school grounds because it had nothing to do with interstate commerce.
Output: Valid
How is that a good thing when the whole reason for the Constitution allowing them was for individual self defense and to stand against Government Tyranny?
Output: Valid
My biggest problem with the assault weapons ban is that we have spent millions of dollars on enforcement for a law that basically does nothing at all.
Output: Valid
When Lewis was later caught with a gun in Virginia and prosecuted federally as a felon in possession, the government used his old 1961 conviction to prove his disabled status as a felon.
Output: Valid
Every person has a right to keep and bear arms for the defense of himself and the state.
Output: Valid
Guns don't kill people, if they did, they would go to jail for murder- not the murderers.
Output: Valid
Crime utilizing illgeally owned machine guns is virtually non existant and has been for years.
Output: Valid
How about some C/P stories of criminals defeating in-home gun safes?
Output: Invalid
First they would need to get more than 50% votes in not only one elction, but also the following election to be able to change our constitution.
Output: Valid
This would seem to shoot rather large holes in the anti gunners argument against right to carry laws and concealed carry in general.
Output: Valid
I am from the U.S. Yes I own guns, but the reason I do is because I hunt and they supply the neccasary means to drop an animal so I can eat.
Output: Valid
You can't just claim "Country A has more gun control and a lower homicide rate than Country B does" and leave it at that.
Output: Valid
Let's assume for a moment that gun laws are proper and would protect people from violence.
Output: Valid
Rossi and Wright did a prison survey and found almost 3/4ths of the criminals feared citizens with guns more than the cops.
Output: Valid
In practice, the special law for weapons searches is not necessary, since the police routinely search at will.
Output: Valid
I don't think it's so much the media as the fact that no one is used to seeing people with guns, so when they do they assume they are in the middle of a combat zone.
Output: Valid
Scalia is a great believer in the remainder of unenumerated individual rights, and he even looks to the Declaration of Independence as justification for these natural rights.
Output: Valid
My point is that many of these agencies serve important functions, and guns are
Output: Valid
The second amendment is the smoke detector of the bill of rights.
Output: Valid
If 28% of Americans own a firearm, then AT BEST, a quarter of the plane will be armed.
Output: Valid
Could you legally produce weapons of mass destruction in your own back yard "without asking" for permission?
Output: Valid
My train of thought is pretty elementary; if the ruling goes our way, that means that the court took notice of a large dose of original intent.
Output: Valid
You should be ashamed to compare yourself to those that were arrested in the name of getting voting rights for blacks and ending segregation.
Output: Valid
Which would be worthless because you could just repeal that amendment and then repeal the 2nd.
Output: Valid
Outside of those that I've mentioned, I have seen no evidence that states any legal resident has been discriminated against.
Output: Valid
In this case you are talking curtailing doctors fundamental rights because somebody was INCONVENIENCED.
Output: Valid
The only way the person would get the gun back is if the person was found not guilty.
Output: Valid
It's important to note that the study was conducted only for select high-population areas.
Output: Invalid
I fail to see how asking about gun ownership is any different.
Output: Valid
To purchase a firearm in a commercial shop, one needs to have a Waffenerwerbsschein (weapon acquisition permit).
Output: Valid
Following the 2001 to 2002 increase, the rise in gun crime slowed to 2% a year later. "
Output: Valid
He'd be more of a threat to the police (than an unarmed individual) because the more guns there are at a scene, the more they have to deal with.
Output: Valid
Look under the The Motive for Gun Bans thread, I have it posted there.
Output: Invalid
ATF officials estimate the agency needs at least $53 million to hire 250 additional personnel to meet its inspection goals.
Output: Valid
Well, if you believe that this is a 'natural right' it only applies to non-Catholics, and is conditional by the law.
Output: Valid
We know that Bloomberg is convinced that guns are the reason his city is such a mess.
Output: Valid
When confronted by facts and specifics, your entire argument falls completely apart and you become the one without substance and left with just wild speculations.
Output: Invalid
IF you were a memeber of he US government, would YOU want your citizens to be armed in such circumstances?
Output: Valid
Harry Reid and the other suspects are rogue progressives plain and simple and have no bearing on scholarly matters of Constitutional importance.
Output: Valid
(1) is under indictment for, or has been convicted in any court of, a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year;
Output: Invalid
The original common law standard was similar to what still prevails in the U.S. Americans are free to carry articles for their protection, and in 33 states law-abiding citizens may carry concealed guns.
Output: Valid
Maybe since we have a much higher concentration of homes with firearms than our fellow citizens in Cleveland, we can say guns are the cause of our low murder rate!
Output: Valid
Gun control activists love to point out any time the NRA or other organizations oppose any firearms restrictions, but often fail to point out when these same groups offer support.
Output: Valid
You propose to abolish gun free zones, and allow people to carry guns into schools.
Output: Valid
Gun locks are designed to keep kids from playing with guns.
Output: Valid
Long the dominant view of the Second Amendment, and widely accepted by the federal courts, the collective rights model has recently come under strong criticism from individual rights advocates.
Output: Valid
Holders of concealed carry permits are not permitted to enter an establishment while armed if they post signs at their doors to inform the public that weapons are not allowed inside.
Output: Valid
Some studies used against gun have been ones showing that over 50% of homicides in the US are committed with guns, while in countries with gun bans or very strict gun control have a lower amount of gun homicides.
Output: Valid
Simple if gun haters want people defending the right to bear arms to be in militias, why would you want the militias to have lesser weapons then the enemies they are defending against?
Output: Valid
CRIMINALS who have no respect for laws and will take that ban as an opportunity to ravage an unarmed and an unprotected society as they will know that the only armed opposition is the police.
Output: Valid
As noted by the 38 States that have appeared in this case as amici supporting petitioners, ���[s]tate and local experimentation with reasonable firearms regulations will continue under the Second Amendment.���
Output: Valid
Arming America was immediately embraced by many scholars because it appeared to confirm what many already believed: that the Second Amendment only protects a collective right to bear arms, and individual gun rights were unimportant to America's Founders.
Output: Valid
THE SECOND AMENDMENT- A well regulated militia,being necessary to the security of a free state,the right of the people to keep and bear arms,shall not be infringed.PERIOD.
Output: Valid
Anybody that wants gun control laws that infringe on the right to bear arms is a gun haters!
Output: Valid
Try as you might, you've done nothing except go on and on and on about how criminals use guns more than honest people, and how having a gun is no guarantee of surviving a violent encounter.
Output: Valid
More guns and the FBI says crime has fallen yet some more since 49 States have concealed AND open carry provisions.
Output: Valid
No, the number of deaths related to firearms is minute compared to the number of deaths as a direct result of tanks, rockets, missiles, bombs, chemical weapons, and other explosive devices.
Output: Valid
The Court���s interpretation is confirmed by analogous arms-bearing rights in state constitutions that preceded and immediatelyfollowed the Second Amendment.
Output: Valid
An expert on crime gun patterns, ATF agent Jay Wachtel says that most guns used in crimes are not stolen out of private gun owners' homes and cars.
Output: Valid
The bill would allow people on terrorist watch lists to possess and carry assault rifles in the Capital city as long as they did not yet have a criminal or other record that otherwise prohibited them.
Output: Valid
Gun rights were all very well and good when you needed Militia's to help defend against British aggression in the war for independence.
Output: Valid
Five criminal court judges were asked to assess whether the self reported defensive gun uses were likely to have been legal.
Output: Valid
If we look at D.C. we can see that people who had registered their guns before the gun ban were allowed to keep their guns after the ban took effect.
Output: Valid
Since October 1998, 33 cities and the state of New York have brought lawsuits against gun makers and retailers seeking to hold the companies responsible for the misuse of their products.
Output: Valid
A gun is an offensive weapon, not defensive - if you want to defend your home, buy a decent burglar alarm and/or surveillance equipment, or a safe room.
Output: Valid
Wow I think we must just be confused by the fact you openly abuse those who support guns in the hands of law abiding citizens.
Output: Valid
We have a right to use a gun to defend ourselves and others.
Output: Valid
So for those keeping track the total of people currently recognized as having been murdered between 2007 and 2010 in incidents involving holders of concealed carry permits is 45.
Output: Valid
Perhaps you need to drop your prejudice you bring with you across an ocean and stop thinking of gun owners as criminals, they are not, we are the keepers of democracy, and the Federalist papers say so.
Output: Valid
Individual rights as enumerated by the U.S. Constitution do not apply to corporations, businesses, organizations, etc.
Output: Valid
Class 6 felony to give or sell any firearm to a felon, a person found not guilty by reason of insanity, an illegal alien, or any handgun or assault firearm to someone under 18 years old.
Output: Valid
Rationing guns doesn't stop gun dealers, it makes them invisible to the police.
Output: Valid
It is true that nations such as Switzerland have just as many guns percapita, and Canada probably comes fairly close too, but their gun related deaths are many times lower than that of the US.
Output: Valid
I remember reading an article of how a study of 10 years of current gun control laws haven't done anything to make Aussies any safer.
Output: Valid
Most of the "gun control" laws we have in the US have no potential to impact crime at all, except perhaps making the streets safer for criminals who have an unarmed public to prey upon.
Output: Valid