I feel like Australia took a mallet to something as delicate as a Starfish — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Gun confiscation would have to be administered by force of arms. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
No, a murderer took a gun to 35 of our citizens who were shot dead in real life. They died and their hearts stopped beating. It wasn't a metaphor. The kind of thing that happens on the regular in the US. We stopped that.
Again, not a metaphor. — StreetlightX
Isn't that how all contraband is seized (when the owner won't cooperate with the law)? I'm sure you don't have a problem with a force of arms being used to confiscate illegally owned drugs. — Michael
The fact that government guns would be used to confiscate citizens guns is a non starter. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
Why? If I'd illegally obtain a tank are they supposed to take it with sticks and stones? — Benkei
There is emotion, and then there's talk about gun laws after a massacre as 'mallet to starfish'. — StreetlightX
As far as I know, that hasn't been applied to guns in the U.S. Perhaps that's how the Aussie government got them, though. — Ciceronianus the White
I fear the day they try to apply "eminent domain" to forcefully confiscate a law abiding Americans' firearm. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
They won't be law abiding if the law requires they turn them in and they refuse. — Michael
Illegally — Benkei
that's what the NRA wants you to think. Most likely people aren't that attached to their guns. — Benkei
I fear the day they try to apply "eminent domain" to forcefully confiscate a law abiding Americans' firearm. — ArguingWAristotleTiff
As though somehow those who daily espouse their belief that the purpose of the Second Amendment is to allow citizens to resist government oppression and tyranny will not use the Second Amendment to resist what they see as government oppression and tyranny. Or maybe they are so naïve." — ArguingWAristotleTiff
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