niryuu/sni-each-converted huggingface dataset:
What you've been doing isn't a debate about gun control, it's criticism of the Supreme Court for saying the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a gun for legal purposes.
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I think laws stating that you should not be allowed to carry guns onto airplanes or into schools are examples of common sense gun control laws meant to protect people.
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Common sense gun control laws the gun haters want will only affect the law abiding citizens, not the criminals.
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orgs contend are suitable to carry these full capacity magazines and rings hollow to contend that citizens are somehow more qualified to shoot accurately than the police or military.
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The only problem with gun hater pilot���s common sense bs is that the dangerous criminals these laws are meant to keep guns away from do not obey gun control laws!
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Sly "Rambo" Stallone called for house-to-house confiscation of firearms in the U.S. Arnold "Terminator" Schwarzenegger publicly advocates every measure promoted by "gun control" groups while still saying that he believes in the Second Amendment.
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Criminals that do not obey gun control laws will be able to obtain guns and use them on the unarmed law-abiding citizens.
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Some people who want to ban guns try to use simplistic arguments to suggest that murder rates are tied to the number of guns available for criminal misuse; and they suggest more guns = more crime and less guns = less crime.
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If you recall the argument for you was "more guns = less crime", The Donohue study rejects that idea as do I.
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Consequently, police never hear about the bulk of successful defensive gun uses, instead hearing mostly about an unrepresentative minority of them containing a disproportionately large number of failures.
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So unless you're talking about reforming the system, like the NICS Improvement Act was supposed to do, you're obviously talking about denying people their right to own guns in the first place.
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the framers of the Constitution felt that having an armed population would help keep the goverment on the right track, it is odd how hard some of them are trying to disarm us now.
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Concealed carry laws put more legal guns on the street, in stores, etc. the is More Guns on the street for defensive use.
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Every traffic stop or other law enforcement/citizen encounter in which law enforcement learns that the citizen possesses a firearm would now allow for suspicion that the firearm may have been obtained without going through the background check process.
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Well if criminals are getting their guns through licensed dealers, how come these records of sale aren't being used for the purpose of tracking down gang members who obviously bought their guns legally?
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First you argued that the Second Amendment was a collective rights tool designed to ensure that each state had its own private militia.
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If a person has any compunction or feelings of the RIGHT to keep or bear arms for any legitimate reason: = BAD.
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The important thing is...all 9 Justices in Heller SCOTUS ruled the right was an individual and fundamental right to keep and bear arms with the emphasis on self defense.
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Perhaps you should show how registration is an infringement on 2nd amendment rights.
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But in countries with strict gun control, such as England and Canada, criminals enter houses at will, without worrying whether anyone is home.
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That means the number of shootings after the policy to ban guns on school grounds grew 21 times higher, in just a 16 year period.
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I have a better theory as to why there's a supposed smaller availability of guns to criminals in the UK; because there are less people and obviously fewer guns were ever made or imported to begin with.
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If you need guns to ensure that your government doesn't become corrupt or tyranical you wouldn't want them to know where the guns are, would you?
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But, as we move outside the home, firearm rights have always been more limited, because public safety interests often outweigh individual interests in self-defense.
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So what happens is they call for more protection, more security, more police, more laws, more protection.
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Exactly how many shootings took place in these settings when students were allowed to not only bring their legally owned guns with them to school, but could also store them in their lockers inside the school?
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So to avoid any (more) backlash about the law, Reid included a provision to further protect gun owners from either seeing their insurance rates increase, or from having their names collected and entered into some federal gun owner database.
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It is the right of the people (not of persons) that shall not be infringed, the right stated in the Virginia Constitution to train the body of the people in arms in order to defend the free state.
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"We could even grant animals a right to bring suit without insisting that animals are persons, or that they are not property," Sunstein said on page 11 of Animal Rights: Current Debates and New Directions (2004).
Output: Invalid
Any further laws on the right to keep and bear arms by State, municipal or any other government is out the window.
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But this is not a perfect world and the laws based upon ideals has only managed to take guns away from the rational and law abiding.
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Making guns illegal wouldn't solve anything except to take them away from people that want to defend themselves.
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And if stricter gun control measures are implemented, this isn't necessarily an indication of potential government oppression, especially if the public sees fit to support such measures.
Output: Valid
If you choose to not be prepared and not own a gun, that is your choice, you do not however have the right to tell me that I may not.
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Clearly the attempt by the legislators and complicity of Jerry Brown is a gross violation of the law and the Right to Keep and Bear Arms.
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Her: I don't think people should be allowed to carry guns.
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Also: More people are killed in car accidents than are killed by guns.
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There is no need to go crazy and ban guns, which would probably kill more than it saves, not to mention the infringement on our civil liberties.
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Therefore you feel more guns is the solution to stopping gun crime.
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People abuse gun rights to rob places and take hostages.
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For example, it ignores how the colonists in Boston laid claim to an individual right by quoting Blackstone as justification for arming themselves (from the very same passage the article says should be read only as a collective interpretation!)
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Possession or carrying of any weapon by any person, except a police officer, is prohibited on university property in academic buildings, administrative office buildings, student residence buildings, dining facilities, or while attending sporting, [Page 131] entertainment or educational events.
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I'm sure a great deal of security measures would become redundant if guns were no longer owned by anyone and the police force would have a far easier time policing people who didn't have guns (sniper weapons).
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Yes, that must be the reason why in other developed nations where there are more restrictions on guns less defenseless people are being murdered by criminals.
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I do agree that education about guns is essential for every gun owner and would hopefully reduce accidental gun deaths
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Also, you must note that politicians own guns themselves, and have armed bodyguards.
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Beginning in 1925, the justices gradually incorporated the provisions of the Bill of Rights into the 14th Amendment's 'due process' clause by declaring that each of the rights was 'fundamental' to the conception of due process of law."
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They're claiming the right to keep and bear arms applies only to a person's house, not the rest of their property, like the front yard, back yard, porch or garage.
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Why do people that want what they call reasonable limits on the right to bear arms demand laws that only law abiding citizens will obey?
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As said,I think the people of the USA are quite capable of deciding about their own gun laws without a Brit getting involved but to make guns freely available to British citizens would be a bad, bad idea.
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Their argument is hardly valid, they want to stop the selling of firearms to people because they think it will decrease the crimes and school shootings along with other dangers that are caused by guns.
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Gun haters will do any thing to ban the right to bear arms!
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Now if you could only get criminals to go along with your Utopian ideas, then brave men and women (Citizens) would not need to be armed in order to even the playing field.
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In fact, gun control laws have been around for over 200 years so apparently the founding fathers didn't see the second amendment as a barrier to such laws.
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If you believe what you say in:as it is presently, gun crimes still occur, people have their rights to own guns revoked on a case by case basis, and dying of gun shots is actually very rare.
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This set off a riotous public debate over whether the Second Amendment was designed to protect individual gun rights.
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2nd 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.
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I believe the reason why they are unwilling to admit that the right is individual is because they fear doing so will unleash a torrent of litigation that will abolish every law which regulates the possession of firearms.
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To just say guns should be aloud because criminals have them, is childish and we need to age past barbaric murder caused by guns.
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Do you believe the same men who do not fear life imprisonment for murder will fear whatever the punishment is for the open carry ban���and for that reason they will just leave their guns aside and carry rocks instead?
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In recent years it has been suggested that the Second Amendment protects the "collective" right of states to maintain militias, while it does not protect the right of "the people" to keep and bear arms.
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Gun control laws will not work because criminals do not obey gun control laws!
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The quotation makes apparent that the Court was focused only on what arms are protected by the Second Amendment, see Emerson, 270 F.3d at 224, and not the collective or individual nature of the right.
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Unarmed law-abiding citizens are victims of gun crimes because criminals do not obey the gun ban in that gun free zone.
Output: Valid
Don't you think most citizens are as able to take care of themselves without a bunch of nanny gun grabbers trying to take their rights and guns away in the face of criminal misuse?
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In Britain, meanwhile, police are planning to implement another firearms amnesty, despite the fact that a ban on handgun ownership was implemented in 1997 and 60,000 guns were turned in during the first amnesty a decade earlier.
Output: Valid
And if the ban failed to lower crime rates, why not support less gun control to effectively accomplish this?
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In an experimental survey that overrepresents firearms owners, 3,006 respondents were asked both sets of questions about defensive gun use, with random variation in which questions came first in the interview.
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This is just further proof that gun control does not equal crime control and there are no "reasonable" nor "responsible" gun control laws.
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Because many people have interpreted the 2nd amendment as an individual right, the states have lost their militas.
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Aren't you the one who used to complain that airlines can't choose to allow private citizens to carry guns on planes because of government regulations?
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If we want to limit private property rights by refusing the ability to exclude firearms, then I believe we would need specific legislation to do so that could survive a court challenge.
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First the argument was that the Second Amendment was a collective right reserved for the sole purpose of guaranteeing states the ability to have private militias.
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Whether to hunt, protect their homes or defend themselves from a tyrannical government, many Americans believe that the government has no right to restrict their access to firearms.
Output: Valid
Do you believe,after all you have said demeaning the 2A, Constitution and self-defense, that you should be allowed to purchase and use a gun in times of civil unrest or an attack on your home and family?
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If you want to end gun deaths you can eliminate the guns and in the US that saves a lot of lives on paper.
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You have states filing suits, just like they filed briefs in Heller and McDonald telling the Government their laws are becoming excessive and that they WANT the Bill of Rights to apply to the state governments as well.
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Prohibiting people from exercising their constitutional rights in a free and open manner after an arbitrary cut off date is an example of a government imposed ban.
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Strange how the gun control freaks wet dream idea of countries still have shooting deaths.
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Evidence that guns in public in the rightful hands and possession of citizens exercising their Constitutional right increase citizen and cops safety and is a BENEFIT.
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And then the poster goes on to say had guns been used by the hijackers rather than boxcutters, that the number of casualties would have been higher.
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Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns.
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History has always show that gun control and registration lead to gun bans, and gun bans lead to a tyrannical government who then exterminates its citizens because they dont fit in to the new era.
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Making a gun free zone does nothing to prevent guns from entering it.
Output: Valid
While Americans have a relatively high per-capita rate of firearms ownership the vast majority of those guns stay in citizen's homes.
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Statistics gathered by various branches of the justice department reveal that only a minuscule number of criminals acquired their guns at gun shows.
Output: Valid
All of the Gun control you call for has been tried in other countries and the Criminals Still import guns in with their drugs.
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Thanks for posting this info zsu, this social experiment made history back in the early 80s and became powerful evidence for the pro gun lobby, proving that by a community just owning weapons caused the crime rate to plummet.
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Complete repeal of all the gun laws will not happen either...including that pesky one about guns in airplanes.
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An interesting side note, there is a local guy here who carries a black powder pistol (wheel gun) for protection since concealed carry is theoretically illegal in kansas (though you can get a permit if you know the right people :) ).
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Criminals will always find ways to get around gun laws which is why there are a lot less criminals who own and use guns in places like the UK and Australia.
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What the gun control nuts always forget when condemning the USA's homicide rates is how much larger our population is and how many more armed citizens we have than those you're comparing us to.
Output: Valid
Where is it said that the right of the people to keep and bear arms is directly contingent upon service in the militia and that failure to comply will result in a loss of rights?
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Gun control will not work because criminals do not obey gun control laws.
Output: Valid
Guns are used in friendly and legal competitions, guns put food on peoples table through means of hunting, guns save lives through defensive uses.
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children are people and nukes are arms so people supporting the second amendment support children having nukes
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If people are going to carry guns for protection, they should be encouraged to put lots and lots of rounds through the gun.
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Bars: Effective July 1, 2010, Virginia has amended its CCW permit law to allow permit holders to carry concealed within bars and other locations that serve alcohol so long as the person does not consume alcohol while armed.
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So if its cause people in high crime areas want to buy guns for protection then why do they only want protection against gun murders but not other crimes.
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If more guns in the hands of law abiding citizens were the answer then it would be logical to expect the US to have one of the lowest rates of mass shootings in the world instead of the highest.
Output: Valid
Or are you saying that more household gun ownership results in more homicides is also an obvious fact?
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And from a more recent and somewhat surprising source; "Certainly one of the chief guarantees of freedom under any government, no matter how popular and respected, is the right of citizens to keep and bear arms.
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Well, owning handguns for personal home protection is different that carrying guns in a concealed fashion for protection.
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Less gun control probably means more criminals will have guns, however it also means more civilian lives will be saved.
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11) One should consult an automotive engineer for safer seatbelts, a civil engineer for a better bridge, a surgeon for spinal paralysis, a computer programmer for hard drive problems, and Sarah Brady for firearms expertise.
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You've accepted the first posit - that less guns will result in less gun killings.
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Which is why the ban is a bit of a poor compromise, they've banned guns for law abiding people but they've not done enough to make sure criminals don't have them.
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Handguns and assault weapons are explicitly protected by the 2nd Amendment because they are needed to fight against a tyrannical government, but tanks, fighter aircraft, helicopter gunships, and nuclear weapons are not protected for some reason.
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A person has the right to keep and bear arms for the defense of self, family, home and state, and for lawful hunting and recreational use.
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Does anyone need to tell us what our rights are when they were written to be understood by the simple man and plainly enumerated as rights belonging to the people and without which the Constitution would have never been ratified.
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The fact that 26,501 NICS background checks are carried out every single day doesn't prove my position that more people are becoming gun owners?
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All im saying is when you talk about crime involving gun owners, please seperate me from the bad ones, as I am no criminal.Thx
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The same employees that will place your gun there are the same employees that can place guns where they want them.
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The 2nd amendment only protects a states right to own a Militia.
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That means currently the federal government has absolutely no way to determine who did own a "high capacity ammunition magazine" before the ban and who didn't, and this fact would make enforcement of the transfer ban impossible.
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That is why some are calling for the 28th Amendment to make congress and government live by the same laws they make as they force citizens to do.
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Cars kill people everyday just the same as guns, but nobody is trying to ban cars.
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Are you saying that trying to avoid being murdered isn't a good enough reason for owning or using a gun?
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As to all of the other demands for more and more and more and more and more, gun control, then a never ending list loopholes on all that is proposed, see the last 300 iterations of this exact same thread.
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That defensive gun uses, with or without a wounding, are so common is not surprising in view of how many Americans own guns for defensive reasons and keep them ready for defensive use.
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Michael Moore's advice to people was to not buy a gun, basically he was telling people to not exercise their constitutional rights, ever.
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I would not say that everyone should have a gun, yet I do think that everyone should consider the possibility that a firearm coupled with appropriate training can and has been the difference between life and death.
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The important point to remember is that if a Government disarms the populace, the only people who will still be armed are the criminals because the honest people will obey the law while the criminals will not.
Output: Valid
We don't have to choose between total regulation of guns or total denial of the problem of gun crime.
Output: Valid
You guys oughta be disarmed and ashamed for trying to limit rights by passing laws that extensive studies have shown have no effect on criminal behavior.
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People like Brady blame the gun and say because one man uses a gun to harm someone then no one can be trusted with guns.
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It should also be noted that by banning guns it could cause social upset and people protesting their right to wield arms, thus causing civil unrest and cracks within society.
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If there was no such law for guns, carriers would be in the same boat as black people walking past a "No Negroes" sign.
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there are too many gun deaths and while there will never be a ban in America i find it appalling that so many fight to prevent gun restrictions and background checks.
Output: Valid
A huge segment of popular organized Christianity has--I am very sorry to say--become part of this pathetic mass and is an active enemy of the Second Amendment.
Output: Valid
Banning guns will not ban the threat of criminal violence it will just make the law abiding subject to the will and whim of the stronger thugs
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I really do not care particularly what gun control laws states or cities pass.
Output: Valid
The 2nd Amendment doesn't say you have to be in a militia or participate one, it just aknowledges your right to own firearms for the purpose of forming one; i.e. no membership is implied or required to exercise it.
Output: Valid
Even in Japan, the nation with the most absolute strictest gun laws in the world, criminals are still getting their hands on banned guns and killing people with them.
Output: Valid
Can you point to the last time a private individual was successfully prosecuted either in legal or civil court for the recognized offense of having violated the constitutional rights of another private individual?
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When an airline decides not to have passengers carry firearms, then I will find another airline, or take another option.
Output: Valid
So an article that is entitled "Gun control doesn't reduce crime, violence, say studies" is not claiming that gun control is ineffective?
Output: Valid
There is little question that the second amendment was meant to preserve the RKBA for individuals, but without clarification on Heller, we could essentially end up with our RKBA frozen in time.
Output: Valid
The reason we ban felons from being armed (which I don't agree with, either they're still in jail or they are considered law-abiding citizens in my book.
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The people that want gun control laws are the ones using the militia lie.
Output: Valid
Whether you are discussing the active militia or the militia as a whole has no bearing on the usefulness of a shotgun having a barrel shorter than 18".
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While nobody wants fully armed soldiers marching down Main Street, USA, allowing them the same right to carry civilians are afforded is morally and legally just.
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I think the concerns are less in my corner of the globe, because there's only a few people who are permitted to carry guns here, usually uniformed people like the Police, Armaguard people and a number of other exceptions.
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buying guns, there is no requirement that federally licensed gun manufacturers and dealers
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Establishing government oversight of the people's arms was not only not the intent in using the phrase in the 2nd amendment, it was precisely to render the government powerless to do so that the founders wrote it.
Output: Valid
Extremist is rejecting any notion of firearm ownership or of reasonable gun control.
Output: Valid
Burglars do not use guns, muggers do not use guns.
Output: Valid
Name me one gun control law that has been effective as crime control!!!!!!
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Gun haters will stop when the right to bear arms is banned!
Output: Valid
In 2005 Virginia amended its law banning other guns on school property to allow concealed carry within vehicles on school grounds for permit holders.
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We support letting people who already have guns actually being allowed to carry them, but I haven't seen anyone saying that we have to get hundreds of thousands of more guns bought up and distributed.
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[332] The Second Amendment, which Oliver held relevant only to the militia system, offered nothing "to prevent congress or the legislatures of the different states from enacting laws to prevent citizens from always going armed."
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There are families there who would refuse guns and there would be business people who are content working on laptops, not handling a gun.
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The left was completely oblivious to the fact that their attempt to control the law abiding of our society actually resulted in MORE guns in the hands of people who wouldn't have them otherwise.
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Instead, the benefit of defensive gun ownership that would be parallel to innocent lives lost to guns would be innocent lives saved by defensive use of guns.
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Ratify a new constitutional amendment explicitly spelling out that no government in America may ever pass any law that would blanketly ban the ownership or purchase of any model firearm, component or ammunition.
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Now if you could clear your mind of thoughts on how to legally incorporate gun control to exclude the Second Amendment, you would be on the path of full citizenship and enjoyment of all the rights proscribed by the Constitution.
Output: Valid
You will need to begin blaming and focusing on armed violent criminals as the cause of violent crime instead of focusing on restricting the rights of the law-abiding.
Output: Valid
The language and historical intent of the Second Amendment mandates recognition of the individual right to keep and bear firearms and other personal weapons.
Output: Valid
Perhaps even Zimbabwe where gun control is a cracking success?Thank god that we live in a society that banned guns from the law abiding so the criminals will feel safe.
Output: Valid
I realize that these anti-gun rights historians need to impress upon the 2nd Amendment a militia regulating action but there is no legal evidence of the 2nd being inspected or held to inform upon any aspect of militia powers.
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Analogously, few criminals wear gloves in order to avoid leaving their fingerprints at a crime scene, and very few guns used in crime have obliterated serial numbers to prevent gun tracing.
Output: Valid
It is legal to own weapons in this country, they are just tightly controlled, and as a result we have far less gun crime (particularly where it's not related to organised crime).
Output: Valid
Somebody challenged California's assault weapons ban and the court ruled the ban is not unconstitutional because there is no individual right to keep and bear arms.
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I think it is interesting that gun nuts always claim that when guns are banned people will just use knives instead, yet we find that with guns prohibited there are still only 200 deaths a year from knife like weapons.
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Gun control is Not Crime Control, and the Only rights you have against our 2nd Amendment Rights are the 22 to 30 thousand infringements we grant you.
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��� Trafficking in new firearms, interstate and intrastate, including by federally licensed firearms dealers, large-scale straw purchasers or straw purchasing rings, or small-scale straw purchasers from gun stores, gun shows, or other premises;
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Private citizens can never hope to acquire firearms when gun control laws exist, but all 'criminals' have instant connections to black-market arms dealers.
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UNFORTUNATELY THOUGH, they will never consider our right and responsibility to defend ourselves and our families since we all know the police are only a responsive force rather than a defensive or preventative force.
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So what you need to do is quit coming up with outrageous and unacceptable gun control measures that only affect lawfull gunowners, and start coming up with ideas that we will support you in.
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We're talking about deadly lethal weapons that are way more powerful than what the authors of the Second Amendment had in mind.
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An analogy would be some phobias - people are afraid of apparently harmless objects because they associate a fear-causing situation with that object, just as seeing a gun causes someone to become more aggressive because they associate aggressiveness with the weapon.
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In this country, LIB DIM GGs, ( usually the bulk of the anti-gunners ) like to include suicides with murders, when discussing the number of deaths from the misuse of firearms each year.
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In Boston, New York and some other cities, there are unsubstantiated rumors, put out by the authorities, that cab drivers have no second amendment rights.
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(After having several family members get killed by being shot from those with ILLEGAL guns you realise LEGAL guns aren't the problem)
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Yeah, thing is that the second ammendment makes the point that guns should be allowed because a _well organised militia_ is an important tool for a nation.
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2) ensure that the right to keep and bear arms for a militia is not infringed.
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You and brady and your ilk have in a carrie nation enthusiasm, said gun owners shouldn't have guns because they all drink or stay drunk and it was reasonable to ban guns for that reason.
Output: Valid
New proposals invariable seek to criminalize possession by the public, possession which is perfectly lawful and harms no one, creating victimless crimes, and malum prohibitum laws that reduce freedom.
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I said Adams is relating the proper role of the militia, and that the citizens would have arms in their hands to be used for private self defense as well as in collective defense.
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Gun freedom 50% criminals, 50% innocent victims (We're allowed to fight back)
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If guns are banned, there will obviously be less guns in circulation.
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Take free speech, which has often times been limited by the government (e.g. you cannot yell "fire" when there is in fact no fire) when it is deemed that said right may be dangerous for other civilians.
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Therefore, having a gun doesn't automatically afford protection... the burglar could be armed, better armed, or with accomplicies better armed.
Output: Valid
Nothing good has come out of our gun ban as we are having more rights takedn away.
Output: Valid
Since there's no specific criteria that needs to be met to qualify as a hunting firearm, any gun capable of downing game with one or two shots is perfectly suitable for hunting.
Output: Valid
If there were a certain number of cases involving concealed carriers having their guns stolen right off of their person, then it might be worth noting.
Output: Valid
If we allow banning of AP bullets, big bullets will be next, then shotguns, then pistols, then hunting rifles, then bows and arrows, then knives, then nail-clippers, then bats.
Output: Valid
In most studies legal purchases of firearms have no influence on the crime rate.
Output: Valid
Unless considerations of stare decisis counsel otherwise, a provision of the Bill of Rights thatprotects a right that is fundamental from an American perspective applies equally to the Federal Governmentand the States.
Output: Valid
I'm very aware of the practice of giving your kid their first gun when they're 12 or something, it's one of the best ways to get them interested in both guns and safety.
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The claimed that a gun shop owner was intentionally violating the laws of Chicago and selling all kinds of weapons to gang members, simply by being one mile outside of the Chicago city limits.
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We must also consider the historical context as well as the language of the Second Amendment.
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(NJ, (again with no RKBA provision), has not developed a sophisticated legal history of the RKBA under state law, they have just lazily relied on the federal cases; see Burton v. Sills, 248 A.2d 521 (N.J. 1968))
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Perhaps if other types of firearms were as strictly regulated as machine guns
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If individual citizens should not, in your view, be permitted to own firearms, them make your case and let the amendment process work to make your view the law of the land.
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As was mentioned, HS purchased over 4.5 million ;40 caliber alone not couting machine guns and ammo in almost every other caliber by the millions.
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No, the gun (+one set of ammo) still costs more than restocking pepper spray for a lifetime (calculation: pepper spray @~Σ7 per year, handgun @~Σ500 = ~71 years)
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Simply because a court assumes a law is valid and lawful, it isn't the same thing as the court reviewing the law and ultimately determining that the law is truly constitutional in nature.
Output: Valid
Every one of the original ten amendments, witht he exception of the 6th and 7th contain strong language that leave no doubts as to the fact that the rights are protected.
Output: Valid
I seriously cannot believe that someone out there really thinks that we should allow EVERYBODY to carry weapons onto an airplane!
Output: Valid
However there's plenty of proof to the contrary that depriving people of their right to arms while in specific locations increases the likelihood of mass murder.
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We therefore hold that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment incorporates the Second Amend-ment right recognized in Heller.
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Whether urban or not open carry is legal where the lawmakers and business owners do not object.
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That's because they're not buying their guns here, so your proposed restrictions have no practical or usable benefit.
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And with so many countries facing growing debts and unable to meet budget deficits, should we really be wasting what little money we have left on trying to implement and maintain a registry/licensing database?
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Precisely Jim, if criminals cared about the law then they wouldn't be stealing guns to begin with.
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Gun control should be left to the person holding the gun.
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It amasses me how many anti-gun nut activists have armed guards.
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Ian brought up the point that guns make you more likely to kill a person.
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It wouldn't protect the guns owned at the home of someone in the National Guard.]
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A guy who stands up in the House and defends the torture of terror suspects will nearly faint with horror at the prospect of depriving someone on the watch list of the right to purchase a pistol....
Output: Valid
What is defined as "properly securing firearms" is a one size fits all demanded by state government regardless of a person's situations that would render such unnecessary or unreasonable.
Output: Valid
They have the ability to outrun navy vessels and go down water ways too small for the navy to pursue.
Output: Invalid
If you're 999 feet away from a school you're committing a felony, yet at 1,000 feet away from a school you're somehow not doing anything wrong.
Output: Valid
You haven't explained how the selected features make a selected firearm more offensive than they would be without them attached.
Output: Valid
He said the government has taken on the cartels as no previous Mexican administration has dared to do.
Output: Invalid
You can just call and say ANYONE has an illegal gun and they get 5 years in the cooler?
Output: Valid
Want to stand on that point and others you claimed where deposing a dictator without deadly force is practical or possible?
Output: Valid
Isn't that why you think that everyone should be able to carry them on board?
Output: Valid
People want all kinds of weapons but none of you douchebags wants the responsibility for having such freedoms.
Output: Valid
The number of people in Japan who kill themselves by slitting their wrist, disemboweling themselves, and mixing cleaning products together to form a deadly gas, are much higher than America.
Output: Valid
Has anyone noticed that in Katrina's wake, citizens that were left there had to fend for themselves with their own weapons?
Output: Valid
Especially considering the fact that most of the armed services would likely side with gun owners.
Output: Valid
Usually it is 'oh look out look out, them gun nuts are going to do something.
Output: Valid
Well a lot of good that advice is gonna do these South Carolina people, now that the police have been ordered not to pursue criminals who run from the scene of a crime.
Output: Valid
You've yet to explain anything that would support your position of the Second Amendment being out of date.
Output: Valid
You guys seem to be obsessed with using this incident, although rare, to get any gun control that you can.
Output: Valid
Criminals do not obey the laws about gun free zones.
Output: Valid
Without gun control: You grab your smithy 66 revolver under your bead, and shoot the burglar dead.
Output: Valid
Actually the constitution talks about congress being able to suppress the insurrections by using the militia.
Output: Valid
Most people who have unrestriced access to the white house and congress are also authorised to carry a gun there.
Output: Valid
Meaning that a countless number of magazines capable of holding more than 10 round of ammunition had immunity and couldn't be touched by the bill.
Output: Valid
Perhaps by examining examples of early gun control we can better evaluate such a claim.
Output: Valid
Since prior restraint is not Constitutional, more law enforcement would do little to interfere with criminal violence.
Output: Valid
Then how about the fact that California has neither it's own state KBA provision, and the courts have ruled that the federal Second Amendment don't apply to them as a state?
Output: Valid
It has yet to be proven that the freedom or speech, or the freedom of association, allows doctors to ask completely unrelated questions with no medical bearing, for the purpose of recording the answers in the patient's medical files.
Output: Valid
When cornered by the inconvenient truth, they just want the gun control anyway.
Output: Valid
Our modern view of the true concept of the 2nd amendment is blurred by 100 years of legal maneuvering attempting to re-write history.
Output: Valid
The Brady Campaign argued that Florida would become Dodge City, and minor traffic accidents would become gun battles.
Output: Valid
He is also someone who dislikes guns and has mostly written on the side of gun control.
Output: Valid
By being a dissenting judge that means his opinion carries no legal weight and is a moot point.
Output: Valid
We need to do a better job of socializing our youth, making sure none of them slip through the cracks.
Output: Valid
They do not have the expressed, enumerated power to pass any law regarding guns in the constitution.
Output: Valid
The Court begins its treatment of the second count with an inclusive remark about the Court's statements about the right to assemble:
Output: Valid
So if they thought that the 2nd amendment was being misinterpreted as severely as you claim, then they would have accepted that case, or they would have defeated their own purpose.
Output: Valid
The intention to prevail does not affect how successful you will be, and the fact remains that - despite the extra ability to shoot an attacker - the US has more rapes, murders and assaults than the UK.
Output: Valid
Look at Washington D.C. By far the absolute strictest laws in the entire nation, they STILL need gun shot sensors because people are STILL being shot and killed on a regular basis!
Output: Valid
While 'the great leveller' allows the weak to defend themselves against the strong (assuming they are competent), it also allows the weak to victimise the strong.
Output: Valid
The police must respect people's Constitutional rights, but this doesn't mean they don't prevent crimes from occurring.
Output: Valid
And we've seen no hard evidence that works as proof to show that a "casual attitude" as you call it, presents any serious threat to anyone.
Output: Valid
Nowhere is there any mention of the right relating ONLY to active duty members of the militia -EVEN WITH SUCH QUALIFYING LANGUAGE !
Output: Valid
In making this claim, Sinjin is voicing his approval for a clearly, if not blatantly, unconstitutional law that the Supreme Court itself shot down just last year in the Heller ruling.
Output: Valid
A true democracy is where every citizen would get the right to vote on each issue put before a governing body; for example, ancient Athens in Greece.
Output: Invalid
Millions of Americans have decided to participate in their Constitutionally Recognized as Inalienable Right!
Output: Valid
Please credit most people with having enough wit not to fall for the "an armed society is a polite society" canard.
Output: Valid
While it sounds simple on the surface, like many other questions in life, it truly is a complex question based on many variables of individual circumstances.
Output: Invalid
How can historians ever look back upon this and agree this was anything more than a raw exercise of Orwellian ���doublethink��� under the guise that the ends must justify the means?
Output: Invalid
Being at a designated presidential speech zone, and armed and hour before the president shows up, simply doesn't count.
Output: Valid
The TEC-9 ads touted its "excellent resistant to fingerprints" and "high volume of firepower" and Navegar boasted that news reports of criminals using the TEC-9 were "good as far as sales go."
Output: Valid
You're not allowed to assemble your gun, not even in event of a break in, you're not allowed to load it, or take it from one room of your house to another.
Output: Valid
I think you overestimate the risk, for most folks, of walking around without a gun.
Output: Valid
Who cares if you have a flash suppressor, it does not make the gun less lethal.
Output: Valid
If that means gun control then so be it, but it does not.
Output: Valid
The political leadership to carry those rulings forward does not exist."
Output: Invalid
So if he was negligent it was only because he was allowing a young child to shoot such a weapon but that also means the gun club was also negligent because they also allowed it.
Output: Valid
How many crimes are prevented each day because of the mere presence of a gun or even the suspicion that the victim or someone near by has a gun?
Output: Valid
If you notice someone having a heart attack would you first tell them they should eat better, stop smoking, and exercise?
Output: Invalid
Hell this whole Gun laws thing is just like the slavery thing,
Output: Valid
People in these categories automatically get a five year prison sentence for simply possessing a gun.
Output: Valid
If the same thing had happened over here, say in Bristol, the incidence of looters with firearms would have been substantially lower.
Output: Valid
So guns kept in a home appear to attract criminals rather than deter them.
Output: Valid
This 'flimsy' piece of paper guarantees our rights as citizens, it protects us from our own government and it protects us from foreign governments.
Output: Valid
Amendment on the right of the people to engage in free speech, but in reality it is riddled with limitations.
Output: Valid
You don't know where the right to no feel threatened or the right to peace of mind comes from?
Output: Valid
The CDC gave a weak apology seeming to contradict everything their findings said, but they did suggest more studies.
Output: Valid
because I've made a legitimate point that not all gun owners abide by the law?
Output: Valid
I'm not guessing what the men who wrote the 2nd Amendment meant, it is very clear in the Militia Act.
Output: Valid
Which passed the law requireing "smart guns", if they ever become available (right now they do not exist).
Output: Valid
In my experience, however, drugs and/or alcohol are present in about 85% of crime [from dealing drugs; enforcing drug debts; robberies, burglaries and larcenies to take property to trade for drugs; crimes committed by those under the influence; etc.]
Output: Valid
The incorporation of the Bill of Rights (or incorporation for short) is the process by which American courts have applied portions of the U.S. Bill of Rights to the states.
Output: Valid
Let me ask you a question if I might: How do you explain the 2nd Amendment phrase ���the right of the people���?
Output: Valid
But now if you mention that you want to defend yourself against unfair actions by the government, it wouldn't ever hold up.
Output: Valid
Once again you make stupid, asinine comments about gun owners based on your ignorance and hatred.
Output: Valid
Police cannot do this, and indeed do not themselves even claim to be able to do so.
Output: Valid
So gun hater pilots goal is to treat all people like criminals.
Output: Valid
Amendment right to counsel and force the states to protect that right.
Output: Invalid
Unfortunatly, the anti gunners like to use example of the few times that there are violent episodes in our schools to push their agenda.
Output: Valid
The responsible use of pepper spray is not to spray innocent people or yourself through accident or anger, and same goes for tazers and guns.
Output: Valid
One such person who is prohibited by federal law from having a firearm at all is the convicted felon:
Output: Valid
Is Bloomberg trying to drive home the point that more money equals less intelligence?
Output: Invalid
It is a living proof that we are protected by rights which guarantees protection from the government.
Output: Valid
You say that gun control must not be effective because the study's conclusions about gun control were inconclusive.
Output: Valid
Do you think that private companies should be able to restrict freedom of speech as well as any other parts of the constitution?
Output: Valid
32 years of gun control in Washington DC, crime has not been reduced.
Output: Valid
However none of these exceptions would apply to a criminal obtaining a specific firearm through the black market or outright theft, and then going on a shooting spree where others are killed or otherwise maimed.
Output: Valid
The man is a known advocate for very broad gun control laws.
Output: Invalid
She will not be allowed her US legal right: her gun, as she will cross onto Canadian soil.
Output: Valid
Lying in compliance and trusting two criminals to feel that it's not necessary to harm anyone, or actually do something that can lead to stopping the dangerous individuals before they have the opportunity to harm someone?
Output: Valid
It did nothing to prohibit the required militia arms from being used in private concerns (such as hunting) so long as the arms were kept in a state of constant readiness for emergency militia use.
Output: Valid
Since animals can operate them, gun owners obviously need sufficient training to make sure they are used safely.
Output: Valid
The people in Mumbai learned that the hard way this year when that handful of terrorists came in and slaughtered several hundred innocent people in a matter of days without any opposition.
Output: Valid
The way it stands now, were the second ammendment to be viewed as normal constitutional law, the registration schemes and bans would certainly disapear overnight.
Output: Valid
I really don't understand why Americans are convinced that guns are essential these days.
Output: Valid