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the "data" in this thread adduced by the gun fetishists--which is a different category than folk who simply own guns---is so meager that anyone can draw any conclusion they want from it. there is nothing more to be said about it.
i find strict construction to be intellectually bankrupt. what it does functionally is attempt to eliminate the adaptability of the constitutional order that the united states has operated with SOLELY in order to elevate a self-evidently 18th century-bound amendment about guns to the status of the transcendent. this is typically buttressed with a kind of pseudo-historical argumentation that is not even worthy of a mediocre undergraduate. it is shocking that anyone buys this nonsense.
i find the idea that having a gun magically gives you political agency to be even more astonishing.
this far right political worldview has not even caught up with 1848.
the united states truly is the jurassic park of reactionary politics.
unbelievable.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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