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Originally Posted by Crompsin
Pfft, knives were cool when you were 15 and your alternative was a Red Ryder pellet gun.
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So because Crompsin doesn't consider knives . .. Cool. . .we should ban them. . . Gotcha
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I have a "right" (intangible thing) according to an ancient asswipe document
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The same ancient asswipe document you and your side uses to loudly proclaim that the government cannot take your guns. . . .
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and tiddly-winks court system that couldn't be more confusing with the help of Peewee Herman... so I don't have to tell anybody about my "right" (intangible thing).
You're kidding.
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No.
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I totally don't get your logic here. Do explain. This smells an awful lot like what teenagers hear when their parents try to offer them those eye-rolling "valuable life lessons" regarding tattoos, car racing and premarital sex.
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I did explain. Read again. If you have a right to something, you do not have to justify having it. You're already entitled to it. I don't have to start my newscasts with an explanation of why I should be allowed to broadcast them, and a plea to government censors not to block their transmission because, having a right to free speech, the government isn't allowed to take it away from me, even if they don't like my reason for exercising it.
If indeed you have a right to bear arms, then you don't have to explain why you need to have a gun. You are entitled to the gun, even if I or the government think your reason is stupid or unpalatable.
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Rights, like guns, aren't magical merit badges. Rights don't mean a damn thing unless you can justify them and back up that justification with some kind of tangible force
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Well the threats to shoot cops in this thread clearly show the tangible force (though it doesn't amount to much up against the government's tangible force. As far as justifying rights, clearly you do not understand the difference between a right and a privilege. Perhaps that's half the problem.