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How Do Reasonable People Become Gun Zealots?
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The 2019 Utah legislative session, dominated by LDS Republicans, was a stunning exhibit of Mormon values simply forgotten. Dismissed. The honest, otherwise decent legislators are probably good husbands, wives, fathers, mothers and loyal members of their faith. Yet it is shocking to observe the spectacular metamorphosis that occurs when they have to address a gun issue. Suddenly they become rabid, myopic disciples of the NRA, spouting the same old fears about the slippery slope to gun confiscation. |
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Stripeseven
(4/8/2019)
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Metamorphosis? How about just plain "in defense" of a right protected by the Constitution? Law abiding citizens refuse to take responsibility for the actions of criminals. |
Comment by:
MarkHamTownsend
(4/8/2019)
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With congresskritter Eric Swalwell and his ilk around, fearing gun confiscation is neither myopic or paranoid. Swalwell WANTS semiautos CONFISCATED. Bans and confiscations have happened in this country, despite this author's ignorant blather. Fearing them only means one is informed, not the ignoramus gun banners hope for. |
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The right of a citizen to bear arms, in lawful defense of himself or the State, is absolute. He does not derive it from the State government. It is one of the high powers" delegated directly to the citizen, and `is excepted out of the general powers of government.' A law cannot be passed to infringe upon or impair it, because it is above the law, and independent of the lawmaking power." [Cockrum v. State, 24 Tex. 394, at 401-402 (1859)] |
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