Gun control is a broad term that popularly gets applied to any regulation of firearms, including common-sense measures like background checks and age restrictions. Some of the proposed regulations are good ideas, some are not. And, as mentioned previously, the right to own a firearm is a right that is potentially physically harmful to others. You can shout insults at the top of your lungs, but your free speech is never going to be the direct cause of a person's death.
Freedom in general is potentially physically harmful to others. Even free speech - surely you've heard of ye olde "shouting fire in a crowded theatre," one man passing a kill order on to another via spoken word, stirring up a lynch mob, etc.
So then we don't have free speech. We have free speech with limitations. Thank you for making my point for me.
Doesn't amount to the camel's nose in the tent that you'd prefer, though. Legitimate curbs on free speech amount to charging people with crimes of speech (see preceding), which is equivalent to charging people for murder when they unlawfully use a firearm to kill someone. "Common sense gun control" amounts to muzzling people
before they've had a chance to commit a crime via speech.
Furthermore, the right to free speech is intended to promote the debate of ideas. It is not intended to encourage the dehumanization of people, which is the point of racial slurs and hate speech.
And thank Heaven, here are the lefties to define the differences for us. I feel safer already.
Also, republicans stand in the way of preventing housing, employment, wage, and marriage discrimination.
No, they don't. E.g:
republicans passed the civil rights act
"Marriage discrimination" is a misnomer. Homosexuals have always had equal marriage rights. They never wanted equal marriage rights, they wanted to redefine marriage to suit them. America as a whole rejected "homosexual marriage" over and over, until the leftists managed to go over their heads and cheat it in via the courts.
Really, I think all of the so-called "anti-discrimination" laws need to go. "Anti-freedom laws" or "anti-property-rights laws" would be a more appropriate label. It's not the gov't's business who private citizens hire and fire, rent or sell to, bake cakes for (leftists should be ashamed for breaking this man over what kind of cake he was willing to bake, but the leftist mob has diminished capacity for shame), etc. If people want to forego perfectly good money out of prejudice, that's their business.
People can be legally fired or denied housing for being transgender, and republicans have been the ones to block the statutory acknowledgement of their civil rights, typically painting transgender persons as immoral perverts who want to use ladies' restrooms and women's showers for nefarious reasons.
They can be fired for being Christians, Republicans, Democrats, etc., too. This is what leftists are reduced to, these days: acting as if the sky is falling over an infinitesimally small fraction of the population. It's kind of pathetic.
If the right to bear arms is absolute and no common sense applies then people who are sent to prison for violent crimes have the right to bear arms in prison. Somehow I don't think the founding fathers were that stupid.
Restricting criminals' right to bear arms, at least while in custody, is okay by me. What with due process, and all.
None. Republican candidates have been skewing too far from center in recent years, leaning far more to the extreme right than I'm comfortable with.
Exhibit A that far leftists think of themselves as centrists, or at least, like to claim to be. The Republican party is "extreme right"? Uhm, no.
You sure you want to ask someone from a developed European country about how we do it? We also have adult gun regulations to prevent the proliferation of firearms and flooding of the black market. That's how it's done in a civilized country.
That was my point exactly; American leftists are always going on about how we need gun control because that's how they do it in Europe, but you never hear them champion voter ID, which is how they do it in Europe. Ergo, American leftists don't really care how it's done in Europe.
Back to the original topic...
I notice today that my Google News feed is void of any entries about the Oregon situation.
Mayhap this topic has run its course and the feds will just let them sit there. The media seems to be done with them.
Like I said:
After Ruby Ridge and Waco, authorities keep a low profile in Oregon
