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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or maybe the problem is that when any gun control proposal is brought up people immediately jump to arguing that it bans or will lead in short order to a ban on every possible form of gun ownership, including antique guns with bayonet mounting. [/quote]

Well, how can you blame people for thinking that way? Especially when you remember what Pete Shields, the founder of what later became the Brady group, said:
"No private citizen has any legitimate reason to possess any type of firearm whatsoever."[/quote]

That's a troubling statement. That explicitly implies that _any_ public citizen is a candidate for gun ownership. Shades of proles and party. [/quote]

That's not what the proposed bill says, though, and there is a good reason for it.

If you plan to form your arguments about actual proposed legislation based on extreme things once said by someone who died a quarter century ago and who is not a legislator, and that obviously has no bearing on what is actually in a proposed bill, then please don't pretend that you are trying to discuss an actual proposed bill. You are simply fear mongering to distract from the bill and not furthering that discussion.

And the PPs point is that if you didn't read the bill, you shouldn't comment on what the bill does or doesn't do, especially if you are making outrageous things up that aren't in the bill (e.g., "all VA gun owners will become felons overnight"). PP is insulting the intelligence of anyone who opens the thread by posting such nonsense.[/quote]

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