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How does that line go for the Libertarian party? "I support gay married couples' rights to defend their pot farm with firearms?"

 daedalus wrote:

 NuggzTheNinja wrote:
How does that line go for the Libertarian party? "I support gay married couples' rights to defend their pot farm with firearms?"

Which part of that is the bad part?

None of it is bad.

 Peregrine wrote:


So you think that someone who has a history of violent impulses and anger management issues, to the point that they're getting diagnosed with a mental illness by professionals, should be allowed to own guns without limits?

No, and the law already prohibits people who have been involuntarily committed from owning firearms.

 Peregrine wrote:

Do you think that people should be allowed to parade around in public with AR15s just to show off their right to do so?

Yes, AR15s are legal to own, and there's nothing wrong with carrying around something that is legal to own. Do I think those people are neckbeards? Absolutely. And they make people uncomfortable, just as a guy walking into a Starbucks carrying a chainsaw would make people uncomfortable. I wouldn't do it, but I also would not support legislation making carrying a rifle in public illegal. Once you do that, you open people up for arrest simply for loading or unloading their vehicles.

A store can ask patrons to leave. Failing to heed that makes those people guilty of trespassing if they refuse to leave. Then they can be arrested.


The law has ways of dealing with these situations...I fail to see how more legislation would help anything. At the end of the day, murder and crack are both illegal, but that didn't stop Tupac from writing several albums.

 MWHistorian wrote:
I thought that this was interesting. For those of you who think that gun owners are a bunch of white racist red necks, (If you do, you're ignorant) take a look at this. This guy won on Top Shot. I remember watching that season and was surprised that the tech geek won. He was kind of the under dog but he was amazing. He just came out as gay and is now a news reporter for the NRA. He's not the only 'typical white guy.' There's also the Pink Pistols, Colin Noir is black and Gabby Franco is a Latina immigrant.
Gun rights shouldn't be about Conservative or Liberal. It's about authoritarianism.
http://news.msn.com/us/the-gay-advocates-of-gun-rights-1#tscptmf

To add to this, and please don't think I'm taking this down a road to arguing about the case because honestly I wasn't there so I don't know what happened, but when the whole George Zimmerman thing went down, you didn't see the "crazy ass crackers" who modern Liberals assume make up the majority of gun owners really rushing to either side of the debate. They didn't attempt to throw him under the bus just because he was Latino, and they didn't necessarily back him unanimously.

The gun community is far more diverse than most people realize.

 MrDwhitey wrote:

 NuggzTheNinja wrote:

The gun community is far more diverse than most people realize.

It is however, really easy to attack "hill billy red necks who lurv their guns" in a "debate".

I'd honestly be afraid to attack this guy in any situation! I'm not sure the FBI minimum penetration standards apply to Jabba here...