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strange to see this thread still twitching.
if you look at the webpage slims links above, you'll notice that the paragraph which has prompted the new round of snippy "i will not comply" statements is way down near the bottom of a very long list of statements concerning initiatives directed toward american cities. like way way way down on the list. and if you actually read through the list, you'll see that there are a number of quite complex initiatives aimed at problems FAR greater than whether you do or do not have to register your guns or have to use trigger locks or any of that.
personally, i have no problem with there being a distinction between urban and rural spaces in terms of gun regulation---i've lived far too long in cities to find any of the various modes of posturing about "soft society" (phrases redolent of those nice german lads with brown shirt predelictions during the 20s and most of their subsequent imitators) or "self-defense" to mean anything beyond more bullets flying around in already densely populated areas. so i think it entirely ok for gun controls to be one way inside chicago, say, and other ways outside---and i don't see why there'd be a problem with that for the gun people if the regulations were locally enacted.
again, in the confirmation hearings for obama's attorney general nominee, it was made quite explicit that the support indicated in the decontextualized paragraph above is not being translated into any action any time soon by the administration. i wouldn't expect to see anything until a second term, if there is one...
so i would consider untwisting your knickers, comrades.
look around at the problems facing the administration, facing all of us....you are way way way down on the list.
stop being so narcissistic.
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