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Quick question on gun confiscation.
#61
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
I just hope they're wearing jack boots (whatever those are) when they do it. It would be such a let down otherwise.
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#62
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
IKR?  If i;m gonna be oppressed I don't want it to be by a bunch of sweatpants wearing middle aged civil servants /w clipboards and quotas!
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#63
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
(February 8, 2017 at 2:25 pm)mh.brewer Wrote:
(February 8, 2017 at 2:21 pm)Khemikal Wrote: At present it's a right.  When/if it becomes a privilege I'll still enjoy it, and if my guns become illegal (which some of them have and then haven't..in a short few years), I guess I'm made a criminal by default of possession,  the worst kind of offender.  

Wink

How is it a right and not a privilege? Don't you have to "qualify" to own a gun legally? I know that I had to.

The only qualifications at the federal level are age related. Otherwise you have to be disqualified (i.e. felony conviction, adjudicated mentally incompetent, etc...) in order to not be allowed to keep and bear firearms.
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#64
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
(February 8, 2017 at 2:51 pm)popeyespappy Wrote:
(February 8, 2017 at 2:25 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: How is it a right and not a privilege? Don't you have to "qualify" to own a gun legally? I know that I had to.

The only qualifications at the federal level are age related. Otherwise you have to be disqualified (i.e. felony conviction, adjudicated mentally incompetent, etc...) in order to not be allowed to keep and bear firearms.

OK, play on words. Thanks.

(February 8, 2017 at 2:32 pm)Khemikal Wrote: Because it's ensconced as such in...wait for it...the bill of rights?  We set "qualifications" for our rights, reasonably and justifiably so, without making them any less of a right.  In contrast, public library access is a privilege which can be revoked regardless of whether or not you "qualify" for a library card.

Once you set a qualification it becomes a privilege.
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#65
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
Two centuries of constitutional law disagree. There is no requirement, for a right, that there be no qualifications. It would be ludicrous to even conceptualize them in such a way. Does the qualification that constitutional rights apply only to human beings (and not to all human beings) make them all...suddenly, privileges?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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#66
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
Someone took all my guns!!

Wait, I don't have any.

Move along!

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#67
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
Read wiki. Sounds to me like the courts have ruled that there are qualifying conditions. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...n_and_text

(February 8, 2017 at 6:22 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Someone took all my guns!!

Wait, I don't have any.

Move along!

You must be blind.
Being told you're delusional does not necessarily mean you're mental. 
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#68
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
(February 8, 2017 at 6:22 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Someone took all my guns!!

Wait, I don't have any.

Move along!

Anyone is invited to confiscate every gun I have. They can sell them and we can go halves on the money.
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#69
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
(February 8, 2017 at 6:28 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Read wiki. Sounds to me like the courts have ruled that there are qualifying conditions. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...n_and_text

(February 8, 2017 at 6:22 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Someone took all my guns!!

Wait, I don't have any.

Move along!

You must be blind.

No, just a high functioning sociopath.


Do you like sponge?  I do because I'm not allowed anything sharp...

Playing Cluedo with my mum while I was at Uni:

"You did WHAT?  With WHO?  WHERE???"
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#70
RE: Quick question on gun confiscation.
(February 8, 2017 at 6:28 pm)mh.brewer Wrote: Read wiki. Sounds to me like the courts have ruled that there are qualifying conditions. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Sta...n_and_text


I literally just told you that in my previous comment.......now, that there are qualifying conditions to our rights makes them...not rights?  Is it the bill of privileges? If so, is there any difference at all between a right and a privilege?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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