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the argument is not about psychological comfort, powerclown, but rather is about the capacity of localities to regulate traffic in firearms. the militia types oppose this absolutely presumably because they link it to the black helicopters that were supposed to be ferrying united nations military personnel around the rural united states in order to take away their guns and reduce them to slavery.
alot of more ordinary gun-owners seem to oppose it on slippery-slope arguments--but in that case, i don't see why any of them would have a real problem with obama's position on the question--a general respect for the 2nd amendment, interpreted in a manner that they recognize, and a respect for localities to regulate firearms according to their particular needs and politics.
i don't think these two general groups of folk have much in common, even though they are addressed in nra propaganda as if their interests were identical.
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