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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No one fights a war with handguns.  And few homicides are committed with hunting rifles.

It seems like the middle ground is to focus on the type of weapons.[/quote]

That's entirely too reasonable, and common sense has no place in this discussion. Shame on you.[/quote]

The problem is that the NRA removed common sense from this debate a long time ago.

The NRA moves the goalposts every time it looks like people are going to agree to its demands. For example, the NRA used to support background checks, but as soon as it looked like that might happen, whoops - background checks became the top of the slippery slope towards complete disarmament of the American population as a precursor to the imposition of martial law.

It is completely possible to have a reasonable middle ground that enables sportsmen, gun collectors and hunters to have the ability to have guns while taking reasonable steps to perform background checks, limit access to certain types of weapons, require safety education, etc. in ways that are similar to the way we license and regulate other dangerous items like cars.

Unfortunately, since those things might result in a decrease in gun sales and the profits of gun companies, the NRA (which is no more interested in citizen rights than the RIAA is in artists making a living) puts all of its political pressure, including using the dupes who continue to think it's about the Constitution rather than money, to keep any reasonable dialog from happening. [/quote]

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