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MK,
I'm sure your numbers are correct (I didn't check), but you are missing the point. I am all for legal gun ownership. I just think that, like driving a car, gun owners should be licensed, and that for guns like machine guns or assault rifles, perhaps stronger licenses should be put in place.
What alot of right wingers would say to the above is that licensing is somehow against the 2nd amendment. I don't think so, but ok, sure, maybe. This would be a discussion to have in the courts. It seems fair enough, no? But this is not what is happening. What is really happening is that the NRA and right wing media is spinning this way over the top of what it needs to be, working everyone into a froth, and creating very dangerous conditions in the United States (Armed Militias in Nevada, Open Carry demonstrations in restaurants, etc). You have to admit that alot of this goes way beyond what even the most hardcore gun lover on GFY would consider normal or even "patriotic".
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