Open Carry Bill, HR 822, More Of The Same Insane Gun Legislation (AZ)
http://tucsoncitizen.com/in-the-aggregate/2012/02/08/open-carry-bill-hr-822-more-of-the-same-insane-gun-legislation/The National Rifle Assn. (NRA) must be stopped and whoever accomplishes this feat will be a hero, at least in my book. They have ramrodded a new law through the House, HR 822, that would allow anyone in a state with loose concealed carry laws (like Arizona) to carry their handgun in any other state in the country, no matter what the laws of that state are. This is the first piece of legislation this inept Congress has come up with since the Giffords shooting.
That means other wackos like Jared Loughner from the Tucson massacre and Seung-Hui Cho from the similar disaster at Virginia Tech—and they are walking around out there with guns in their pockets—could take their firearms to a state with stricter laws and hold their own massacre. Pure idiocy. “The Second Amendment is a fundamental right to bear arms that should not be constrained by state boundary lines," said GOP Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee in the Huff Post.
Bullshit. I am not even convinced that the 2nd Amendment literally includes the right to carry a concealed weapon and I think with the recent momentum of gun control advocates, this very point may be up for consideration. It is sheer insanity to pass a law that makes one state law—especially one passed by deranged legislators like those in Arizona—a national law. The latter are now trying to push guns on college campuses; you can already take them into bars.
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...that one Wal-Mart clerk could tell he was too nuts to possess. 
...which just goes to show why we need psychological evaluations like some other Western Countries.
...it's like I say, you guys don't have any clever cartoons because all the pro-gun cartoons are drawn by conservatives who just aren't that talented. Waiting for the picture with some self-written text splattered on it and the claim that the NRA is getting royalties 
This one would be too, if it weren't so close to the truth.
There's a schtick on your side based on NRA talking points.
I put time into my responses, but I don't pretend this is some debating society like others here do, this is DU and I'll throw some mud if I want to. I never knew some people could be so sensitive.
...to get sucked into the quicksand of NRA think. Just like you don't have to belong to the Klan to be a bigot
...but I really wasn't trying to in the first place. I'm a propagandist, you're a propagandist, we're all propagandists! Can you define propagandist in this context? I've only decried the nastiness in relation to a brokered deal, but I'm not going to unilaterally disarm. Tough shit, Straw Man.
I have other avenues of gratification available to me. 
Yes -- someone who is more interested in promoting an agenda than in debating a point; someone who will abandon discourse when he seems to be losing the field, and will instead launch a flotilla of emotion-driven graphics and videos, hyperbolic bloviation, and vilification of those who hold the opposing viewpoint; someone who will take has own prejudices as gospel and will stop at nothing to promote his own agenda.
Stop acting as if you hold the moral high ground here. You don't.
...must mean anytime between 15 and 20 years ago...
