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		<title>Gun issue challenges us to weigh the rights vs. their costs</title>
		<description>Discuss Gun issue challenges us to weigh the rights vs. their costs</description>
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			<title>2nd Amendment VS Article 3</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[The 2nd Amendment to the US Constitution grants the right to keep and bear arms. But, Article 3 of the US Constitution defines treason as taking up arms against the US Gov't. So yes, you have the right to own a gun. But no, you do not have the right to commit treason by using that gun to protect yourself from the US gov't.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Rob</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jan 2013 18:42:53 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Marksmanship</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[is a skill my Dad encouraged in me. From the Daisy BB through .22 and .30-.30, goose hunting and target shooting were part of my youth. I was also taught that with rights come responsibility. I hold a driving license, and need to abide by the laws of the road. I see no difficulty in similarly abiding by laws governing my right to bear arms. I would support a registry which would identify my firearm, so that if it is stolen I can identify it. If it is stolen, I will report that. If I sell it, I transfer the registry, just like my car or motorcycle. Then the responsibility goes to the new owner. If his gun is used in a crime, he is responsible. We have rights, enumerated by the Constitution. But those rights must be held responsibly or they are being abused.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jmcsherry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:03:55 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>pick away</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[at the nits. What is the marksman in this video using? Seems to be a lever-action Remington .30-.30, like the one I used to own. And the historical evidence indicates that the original intent of 2nd Amend. was to support state militias independent of the Federal army.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>jmcsherry</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 15:40:11 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Marksmanship</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[Marksmanship is an Olympic event. I have enjoyed simple target shooting with a 22 caliber rifle. I have a friend who is a serious hunter and will take a deer, have it butchered, have the meat smoked, etc. Deer jerky - very tasty stuff. But there's a big difference between a hunting or competitive shooting rifle with long-range accuracy and an automatic weapon which is inaccurate and designed to kill people at short to medium range. In the days when the Constitution and Bill of Rights were written it was understood that weaponry was used to kill people as well as deer. But the main criteria were justice and practical necessity. Those should be the criteria now, and given the size of the country and the power of modern weapons the "well regulated" part of the Second Amendment MUST be allowed to play the role for which it was intended. The "right to bear" part is not infringed, but the country is clearly suffering from that root of all evil, the love of money, on the part of the firearms manufacturers. They have no more morals than cigarette makers or coal mine operators who disable safety systems. The defeat of a legal requirement to report lost or stolen firearms is proof of their power and of their corruption. This must change.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Paul Simons</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jan 2013 08:31:56 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>cars do not exist to assault</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[unless you have armed humvees where you live, cars are unintentional killers. very few people own cars for their ability to kill others. Guns on the other hand are designed for their efficiency in killing. nice try though, a classic 8th grade defense of gun ownership.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>puremutt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:03:50 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>answer the first part of my post</title>
			<link>http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/blogs/centre-square/item/49004-gun-issue-challenges-us-to-weigh-the-rights-vs-their-costs#comment-52469</link>
			<description><![CDATA[- Acceptable cost of access to assault weapons or not? - Glad to see you are willing to amend the 2nd amendment. We'll get right on that, now that you're on board. - Please post a link to an organization calling for an outright ban on firearms of all sorts. Not a conspiracy theory blog, no false dichotomies or paranoid domino theories from the gun lobby . Someone calling for a total ban, with no qualifier like "assault" or "semi-automatic" or "handguns." All firearms. Total ban. - Read my post again, I specified semi-auto assault rifles. Semi auto shotguns are generally not what are used in these mass murders, nor are semi auto handguns likely to take out a theater full of people. When I grew up, shotguns had to be plugged to a 3 or 4 shell limit. I'm not aware of roaming bands of criminals that would require a banana clip to defend myself. Perhaps you live someplace much more dangerous, like Afghanistan or Syria. Obsession with assault weapons and military paraphernalia exhibits a dissociative tendency. Suffice to say, capacity to mow down groups of people is not socially constructive. Assault weapons are completely out of proportion to the threat these people perceive. And if its not a threat, its a military fantasy that I think adults should be willing to forgo. This distorted perception of reality leads people to find threats where there are none. Like 7 year old children, their mother, someone who looked at them the wrong way. Which brings me back to my first point. http://blogs.reuters.com/nicholas-wapshott/2013/01/09/since-when-have-personal-guns-been-used-to-defend-political-liberty/]]></description>
			<dc:creator>puremutt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:59:28 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Misleading Statistics and hand wringing....</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[One reads that there are 100-200 million guns in the US and that there are 16,000-30,000 murders each year by guns here. True or not? One reads that there are 245-300 million cars in the US and that there are at least 40,000-50,000 deaths each year by car accidents. True or not? Also, add the 1,00,000 people each year severely injured for life in car accidents! Do cars cause more deaths than guns? Are there more innocent six year old children killed by cars each year than by massacres in schools? Both statistics are awful facts of life and death in the US. The murders by gun are by criminals and the deaths by car are by all of us making very bad mistakes. But we, the rest of us, are killing far more innocent people with our cars than the criminals kill with their guns, if one also assumes that criminals with guns are often killing other criminals with guns, which is not a bad thing, in the scheme of things. So with all the hand wringing about who owns a gun, where is the hand wringing about who owns a car and how one earns the privilege/license to drive a car, that is much deadlier than a gun in the US?]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Gardner</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 11:55:48 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>Let's research what we post</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[OK? First, there is a process for amending the Constitution. It's an arduous process that's not meant to be easy. For good reason. Second, there most certainly are people talking about banning all weapons. And there are politicians who are actively discussing confiscating weapons. And lastly, most weapons sold today are semi-automatic. And it's only your ugly and small-minded opinion that gun owners are paranoid and indulging in fantasies or that such tragedies can be prevented by taking away people's rights.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>F.Inahoy</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:13:46 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>take responsibility for the cost</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[So, to be clear, the Newtown massacre was an acceptable cost for this freedom, correct? Are assault weapons owners willing to say that? Their deaths either are or are not acceptable collateral damage in defense of the 2nd Amendment rights. I find it ironic that something called an Amendment is off the table for further...amendment. Almost as ironic as Westchester gun owners complaining about the Journal News exercising their right to free press. You're correct, this need not be a debate at the extremes, but rather gun owners sacrificing some of their own indulgences and fantasies to help prevent the next massacre. No one is calling for bans on all weapons. But semi-autos assault rifles? People who think they need them are paranoid, clearly. Let the mental illness discussion begin by discussing what viable threat needs an assault weapon for response.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>puremutt</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:34:08 --400</pubDate>
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			<title>2nd amendment...</title>
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			<description><![CDATA[the text does refer to a well regulated militia, but read it fully and you'll see that it means that as a well regulated is a good thing and as such your RIGHT to bear arms shall not be infringed. the right exists independently of the well regulated militia. (also, just to be nit picky, Remington does not make a lever action). additionally, equal and opposite force is not required to resist, as evidenced by vietnam and afganistan and the us war of independence. an armed citizenry is virtually impossible to conquer, even with hellfrie missles.]]></description>
			<dc:creator>Jorge Vaca</dc:creator>
			<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 08:50:52 --400</pubDate>
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