>>>>>>>>>>>You can have gun laws (background checks and registration) implemented in just a few months and start seeing results quickly.
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>>>>>>>>>>SNIP
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>>>>>>>>>>What results would you expect to see?
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>>>>>>>>>In one year I would expect to see minimal change, so you'd better revamp it to restrict more potential buyers. In another year when the projected results aren't achieved you'd probably have to tweak it again to limit the types of guns that are available for purchase. That didn't work? Those semi-auto rifles and shotguns must be the culprit. That didn't work either? Well, it would be too politically damaging to revert to the way it was, so let's just move the goalposts to make it look like we accomplished something.
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>>>>>>>>I don't see any problem with limiting semi-automatics. Unless you can explain why they have any useful purpose.
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>>>>>>>You might as well say "I don't see any problem with limiting all guns" since the vast majority of handguns and shotguns are semi-auto.
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>>>>>>>Please define "useful" and explain the "usefulness" of owning a particular type of car.
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>>>>>>>Here are 3 "useful" uses for our 2nd Amendment right : protection, sport, stress relief. Protection is self explanatory. I assume you understand the usefulness of sport since you are a fan of many. As for stress relief, http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/01/stressed-america.aspx.
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>>>>>>>Mind you, this excercize is not meant as acknowledgment for your suggestion that rights need to be justified, but rather to volley the ball back to your court to see what you come up with.
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>>>>>>You are back to the 2nd amendment. The one about a well armed citizen militia.
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>>>>>>Stress relief? Surely you are not serious. We as a nation are relieving way too much stress.
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>>>>>>Shooting guns will be a sport when the animals can shoot back.
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>>>>>Living in the city you may find this hard to believe, but there are MANY families in rural America today who hunt for their meat every year and if they didn't, couldn't afford meat on a regular basis. I know many myself.
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>>>>Half of my family live in rural Maine and have hunting in their regular habits. They make it a point of pride to get one deer a year. At least one ;-)
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>>>For sport or economic necessity?
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>>For eating.
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>Out of economic necessity?

You could argue it either way. And I know you will ;-) I have said before that I would hate to be against you in a debate tournament.

No, not out of economic necessity. My relatives were never in danger of starvation. People took care of each other then even when they didn't have much themselves. I called my mother this morning and we got reminiscing about my nana, my dad's father. She was never rich in money but a dozen people always seemed to show up for dinner. She was a natural cook. (As opposed to people like me who cook from recipes). She grew up without a father or any money. She said I was cooking for my younger siblings when I was 8. I said come on, that has to be a stretcher. She said no, it's not.