What the heck would happen if we made a may-issue drivers licence law or a requirement to register democratic party registrations to a registry that we then closed?
Russia is certainly not the freest place for guns, but much better than Latin America or the NW Eurosocialist hellholes the democrats think we should emulate. You can own AKs, ARs, etc. Much less egregious (but still present) "feature" laws than NY. (lengths, folding of things, etc)
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Do people seriously not see the stupidity of this line of "thinking" with their "assault weapon" crap? "Your speech is hfxtxthfdhxdh speech and hfxtxthfdhxdh speech isn't protected because the constitution doesn't mention it!" How could it mention it! I just made the word up!
I give zero Fs about commonality of use or effectiveness is deterring invasions. you either believe in private property or you believe in theft. Do they ask themselves what percentage of the population owns their brand of computer or if their owning cars makes us collectively safer from redcoats?