Do you support the second amendment?

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Because I’m talking about principles, that if violated, ALL Constitutional protections (at least in principle) are up for “grabs”.

Rights that are SUPPOSED to “apply” right now.
This isn’t hypothetical. It is happening now. Last year’s “sit-in” in Congress to oppose due process rights in the matter of No Fly lists, the growing movement to limit free speech, and the ongoing efforts to end religious free exercise.
There is no priority in constitutionally protected individual rights. If one falls, all are st risk.
 
All I know is if we lose #2A, #1A isn’t far behind, though we may lose #1A before #2A.
 
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Vonsalza:
Lets just expand something like it to auto-loaders and I’m happy! 👍
Because, as you said, you favor keeping guns and gun rights out of the hands of people for gender and economic reasons.
Jon, your frantic desire here to widen the goalposts to include gender is tragic.

But if that’s the tarp you want to throw over a good argument against your errant views, I cannot stop you.
 
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Vonsalza:
Sure. As we’ve covered earlier, any ban in Chicago is readily by-passed by a 20 minute drive to gun-lax Indiana.
As we’ve covered earlier, if “lax” gun laws in Indiana are the cause of more crime in Chicago, but not the cause of a similar crime rate it Indiana, then it probably isn’t the cause in Chicago.
And, as we’ve also covered earlier, poor folks amass in cities. Indiana is simply far, FAR more rural than Chicago.

Your counters here are getting nonsensical, Jon.
 
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Vonsalza:
Just “poor people”. Ya know, the ones that commit that vast vast majority of gun crime in the country.
Most gun crime in Chicago is committed by blacks. Should we target blacks for special taxes?
As we’ve repeated ad nauseam, race isn’t the factor. Income is.
 
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Vonsalza:
So I’m sexist because I maintained the gender of the person in YOUR “for-instance”?
No. Because you assumed in your comment "She’s EVERY BIT as great a danger to herself and innocents near her as she is to the “bad guy” she’d try to shoot. "
Good lord man! Because in the example you provided that I was responding to, you cited a woman!

Do you need to be reminded of your own points?

Jon, your rhetoric appears to be degrading substantially… You’re not even keeping up with what YOU post…☹️
 
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Vonsalza:
Lets just expand something like it to auto-loaders and I’m happy! 👍
Because, as you said, you favor keeping guns and gun rights out of the hands of people for gender and economic reasons.
Jon, your frantic desire here to widen the goalposts to include gender is tragic.

But if that’s the tarp you want to throw over a good argument against your errant views, I cannot stop you.
I’m not the one who made the comment, Von. You are.
 
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Vonsalza:
So I’m sexist because I maintained the gender of the person in YOUR “for-instance”?
No. Because you assumed in your comment "She’s EVERY BIT as great a danger to herself and innocents near her as she is to the “bad guy” she’d try to shoot. "
Good lord man! Because in the example you provided that I was responding to, you cited a woman!

Do you need to be reminded of your own points?

Jon, your rhetoric appears to be degrading substantially… You’re not even keeping up with what YOU post…☹️
I quoted your comment. Don’t blame me. But if you want to disavow that comment, okay.
If you want to further disavow your comment about the poor, that’s fine, too.
 
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Vonsalza:
Just “poor people”. Ya know, the ones that commit that vast vast majority of gun crime in the country.
Most gun crime in Chicago is committed by blacks. Should we target blacks for special taxes?
As we’ve repeated ad nauseam, race isn’t the factor. Income is.
So, your desire is to limit the rights of the poor in this matter. I disagree. Guilt by association is not a valid reason to limit rights.
 
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Vonsalza:
Sure. As we’ve covered earlier, any ban in Chicago is readily by-passed by a 20 minute drive to gun-lax Indiana.
As we’ve covered earlier, if “lax” gun laws in Indiana are the cause of more crime in Chicago, but not the cause of a similar crime rate it Indiana, then it probably isn’t the cause in Chicago.
And, as we’ve also covered earlier, poor folks amass in cities. Indiana is simply far, FAR more rural than Chicago.

Your counters here are getting nonsensical, Jon.
Then why don’t those poor folks who can remarkably afford a trip to Indiana and back and purchase a firearm, waiting for the background check, etc, not stay in Indiana to commit crime?

The argument that the gun laws in Indiana are the problem is nonsense. You yourself said it has to do with poverty.
So, end the progressive policies that have impoverished the major cities for 5 decades or more.
 
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Vonsalza:
So I’m sexist because I maintained the gender of the person in YOUR “for-instance”?
No. Because you assumed in your comment "She’s EVERY BIT as great a danger to herself and innocents near her as she is to the “bad guy” she’d try to shoot. "
Good lord man! Because in the example you provided that I was responding to, you cited a woman!

Do you need to be reminded of your own points?

Jon, your rhetoric appears to be degrading substantially… You’re not even keeping up with what YOU post…☹️
I quoted your comment. Don’t blame me. But if you want to disavow that comment, okay.
If you want to further disavow your comment about the poor, that’s fine, too.
Jon…

I cited expensive permits as a good step…
You said “what about the poor inner city lady?”
I said “If she can’t afford the permit, she cant afford to shoot”
You cried “gender discrimination!”

It’s like talking to a toddler…
 
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Vonsalza:
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Vonsalza:
Sure. As we’ve covered earlier, any ban in Chicago is readily by-passed by a 20 minute drive to gun-lax Indiana.
As we’ve covered earlier, if “lax” gun laws in Indiana are the cause of more crime in Chicago, but not the cause of a similar crime rate it Indiana, then it probably isn’t the cause in Chicago.
And, as we’ve also covered earlier, poor folks amass in cities. Indiana is simply far, FAR more rural than Chicago.

Your counters here are getting nonsensical, Jon.
Then why don’t those poor folks who can remarkably afford a trip to Indiana and back and purchase a firearm, waiting for the background check, etc, not stay in Indiana to commit crime?
Because they live in Chicago (remember: poor folks amass in cities). The person they want to commit crime against is in Chicago. Everything is in Chicago except the gun-lax gunstore.

Your argument here is like saying the rifle I purchased in Ohio should only be used to hunt game in Ohio. It’s nonsensical.
 
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I cited expensive permits as a good step…

You said “what about the poor inner city lady?”

I said “If she can’t afford the permit, she cant afford to shoot”

You cried “gender discrimination!”
That wasn’t the quote I cited. You said she was a danger to others if she had a gun.
Like I said, if you want to disavow it, fine
 
Because they live in Chicago. The person they want to commit crime against is in Chicago. Everything is in Chicago except the gun-lax gunstore.

Your argument here is like saying the rifle I purchased in Ohio should only be used to hunt game in Ohio. It’s nonsensical.
Then the problem is with Chicago, not Indiana. Don’t blame Chicago’s problems on the people of Indiana
 
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Vonsalza:
Because they live in Chicago. The person they want to commit crime against is in Chicago. Everything is in Chicago except the gun-lax gunstore.

Your argument here is like saying the rifle I purchased in Ohio should only be used to hunt game in Ohio. It’s nonsensical.
Then the problem is with Chicago, not Indiana. Don’t blame Chicago’s problems on the people of Indiana
The Chicagoans can purchase easily-obtained firearms from Indiana Jon. You’re just ignoring the problem here. Which is unsurprising.
 
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Vonsalza:
I cited expensive permits as a good step…

You said “what about the poor inner city lady?”

I said “If she can’t afford the permit, she cant afford to shoot”

You cried “gender discrimination!”
That wasn’t the quote I cited. You said she was a danger to others if she had a gun.
Like I said, if you want to disavow it, fine
She would be a danger. Like any man would. If you can’t swing a $100 permit, you’re not financially capable of putting rounds down-range on any real basis (thus learning how to actually use your firearm). In a critical moment, you’d be as much a danger to yourself and by-standers as you would be your intended target.

Nice to see you finally coming off that gender-nonsense you were wedding yourself to.
 
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The Chicagoans can purchase easily-obtained firearms from Indiana Jon. You’re just ignoring the problem here. Which is unsurprising
The problem is Chicago, not Indiana. If the problem was Indiana, the crime rate would be higher there.
I’m not ignoring the problem. I’m ignoring a "solution " that doesn’t solve the problem.
 
The gender comment was yours, not mine.
So, what Statistic are you looking at that shows so many poor people hurt others when trying to protect themselves and family with firearms?
 
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Vonsalza:
The Chicagoans can purchase easily-obtained firearms from Indiana Jon. You’re just ignoring the problem here. Which is unsurprising
The problem is Chicago, not Indiana. If the problem was Indiana, the crime rate would be higher there.
I’m not ignoring the problem. I’m ignoring a "solution " that doesn’t solve the problem.
Why would Chicagoans committing crime in Chicago with firearms purchased in Indiana raise the crime rate in Indiana?

Your rebuttal here is baffling.
 
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The Chicagoans can purchase easily-obtained firearms from Indiana Jon. You’re just ignoring the problem here. Which is unsurprising.
Am Illinois resident cannot legally purchase a firearm in Indiana. That requires an dealer to dealer transfer, whereupon the Chicago resident must pick it from a dealer in IL

Some states have reciprocity agreements that allow for personal transactions from a dealer, IL does not participate in those.
 
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