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honorentheos wrote:Switzerland and Israel also have compulsory military service requirements. If that is the condition the NRA and gun rights advocates are willing to accept as part of their argument, cool.

You mean they have a WELL-REGULATED MILITIA?

Markk wrote: Boy I must have hit a nerve

" Darth is really butt hurt said Markk"

Markk, I would like to see a single case from the last 600 years of Anglo-American law that says a person has an absolute right to own a firearm with no governmental conditions. Thanks in advance.

It's very fitting that this discussion is happening on a board created as a reaction to Mormon apologetics, since we're going all in with the same kind of reasoning. "Why rely on knowable facts about the external world, when I can propose ludicrous hypotheticals about things I'm making up as I ...

RockSlider wrote: Prohibition on alcohol did not work, would prohibition on guns work out any better?

It must just be a coincidence that every single place in the world that has stricter gun laws than the U.S. also has a lower rate of violence with guns.

I think the argument would be that we have the right to bear arms for protection via the constitution, not the right to bear arms if we pass a test. "I know literally nothing about the history of firearms law and the 2nd Amendment," said Markk. Driving a car is a privilege, not a right. &...

Symmachus wrote: Don't you remember how we used to own cars before the government made us register them?

One day they tell you you have to record the deed to your house at the county recorder's office, and next thing you know, the Bolsheviks are rolling in.

Markk wrote: No I understood his Socratic style remark. I just didn't want to follow my own reasoning to its logical conclusion.

FIFY

So Markk, what you're saying is that the AR-15 is not the only kind of gun that should be banned.

This means you did mean to say it is likely, not just "possible" in a trivial, hypothetical sense. No. It means just possible, in a trivial hypothetical sense. I fear you are continuing to misread. That's true. I gave you the benefit of the doubt that you meant to make a connection betwee...

You seem to have forgotten your original point, such as it was, so I'll remind you. On page 2 of this thread, you said that you did not believe more restrictions were the best solution to gun violence because, among other things, that it would somehow lead to even more violence. In context, you wer...