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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some laws make sense. Like, "Don't take other peoples' stuff."

[b]Others make no sense, like "You should go to prison if your lobster is half an inch too short."[/b] (google it)

Telling people they can't have guns that look scary falls into the second category.[/quote]

A rule like this makes sense if you understand that harvesting Lobsters before they have had a chance to procreate will leave the ocean without lobsters. So ya, it makes sense.[/quote]
You how I know you didn't google it?

The guy's name was Abner Schoenwetter, and he imported some lobsters from Honduras, some of which were measured to be "too short". He was convicted of violating the Lacey Act which required him to follow Honduran law, and imprisoned. And yet Honduras filed an amicus brief disavowing the very law he was convicted on. He spent six and a half years in federal prison because a bureaucrat wanted to show who was boss.

Now tell me how a rifle with a 15.9" barrel is so much more deadly than a rifle with a 16" barrel that mere possession is a felony.  Or why scary looking guns are more dangerous than non-scary looking guns that function identically.[/quote]

The law is about drawing red lines. That's just inherent in the law. Sentencing can be more flexible.

PS the AR 15 is demonstrably more dangerous than other guns. They were designed to kill many people quickly in combat. Any gun that can be used to manu people quickly should be banned. You can keep your 1791 muskets. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2018/02/15/4-basic-questions-about-the-ar-15/[/quote]
I'm sure the gun experts at the Washington Post covered all the bases there about guns, but if we can keep our muskets does that mean the print version of their paper is the only protected speech anymore?[/quote]

The answer to that is yes. These people want to give officials the right to enter homes and remove all guns. They want only one political party to exist in America.  [b]They probably also only want one news source that agrees with their line of thinking- alot like the people who only listen to Fox News that they claim to hate.[/b][/quote]

Obama used the Espionage Act to spy on a Fox News reporter whose reporting he didn't like:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Department_of_Justice_investigations_of_reporters

And yet Trump is somehow a threat to the press.  Anyone can literally criticize Trump on an platform without fear of repercussion. That's not how dictatorships, or totalitarianism, or "literally Hitler" works.  But anyone who praises Trump, look out. The left will come after you and try to ruin your life and your business.  (Hint: [i]that[/i] is how totalitarianism works)[/quote]

And they'd rather argue about whose side is better and getting rid of all Republicans ( lets get rid of all people who disagree with us how sick is that) Than focus on measures to keep kids safe.[/quote]

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