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You have to remember - we're already protected against the biggest threat - the federal government - violating our rights. Something like 48 states have constitutional provisions protecting that right and the federal government cannot interfere with that. It would only make a difference if...

I wouldn't have taken it out and pointed it unless be started smashing a window. Even if he kept juggling the door, he's just a drunk "friend" trying to get a ride. Even if he started smashing windows I'd have hit the accelerator. Yes I know you were "boxed in.". But were you really...

This is fuel for gun grabbers, who argue that even though decent people aren't a problem, the mere existence of INS is bad because criminals will steal them. There is now a very high probability that within the next 10 years your guns will be involved in homicides. It would be wise to let...

How much good do you think this would do: It struck me that a lot of the problem with bad people isn't that they get guns, but that they get ammo. There is a huge black market in guns. You could stop making guns now and they'd still be out there 100 years from now. Also, as long as the...

wait why is putting a loaded gun in the case so dangerous (assuming it's just by your bed not to haul it around)???

That's what I thought too as far as it just being a legal cover. I am a civilian and don't (yet) have any formal training, but I've owned a glock for a year and have never accidentally pulled the trigger and have carried both chambered and unchambered. I'm thinking of getting a more secure...

In my glock 26 manual it says it in bold red on page 15.... How does this affect the "chambered/not chambered" debate? Why do they say this if the Glocks are "designed" to be carried this way?

volokh.com Which means we will have to wait until the Interior Department does its environmental impact statement under NEPA. This whole decision was a farce - there is no serious argument that *handguns* would pose a serious risk to wildlife in parks. Or that concealed license holders are...

Zundfolge: not all uses of tu quoque are fallacious. Commonly, fallacious uses are in the form of a syllogism, like a modus ponens or modus tollens, which invalidly draws universal logical conclusions from the premises. So if I were to say "you say X is the case but you also believe Y which...

Zundfolge: it's not a red herring rhetorical fallacy because it's used to demonstrate the very point we want to make - an irrational bias. I'm not suggesting using this as a distraction. And 99.9% of people who say "fine ban alcohol" are being intellectually dishonest because very few...

Let me clarify, based on these two responses. I agree that guns at worst keep the crime rate neutral, and do not increase crime (since no serious study has shown it increases it) and at best decreases crimes or at least shifts them to other areas because of the deterrent effect of an armed...

I think we need to focus a lot on how we frame the discussion on gun control. Before you even worry about whether gun control would actually result in a net benefit to society, whether it's actually possible, whether it would only mean criminals have guns....put all that aside. When somebody...

Remember Andrea Yates - she drowned like 5 of her kids at once. Seems like it'd be easier to just require a mandatory background check before having a kid!!!

And if so how reduced will they be? I can imagine the Supreme Court overturning Heller within that time. This could open the door to the federal government outright preempting states on the matter and disallowing concealed carry etc. What do you all think?

Really people should back off crowbird it was a misdemeanor for goodness sake some states have idiotic sex laws like a 20 year old with 16 or 17 year old is sexual assault. It was obviously not something that terrible if it was misdemeanor.

I recall a case about a man unintentionally owning a fully auto gun and he got a huge sentence anyway the supreme court didn't strike it down but thomas wrote a good dissent

Thanks JKimball. I don't think it'd be pleasant but I don't think it would pipe bomb because one end of the system is still open. It'd still be a lot of force with only one outlet though and the barrel would probably banana peel or something.

Is "shooting from the hip" a subset of point shooting or are they entirely distinct concepts?

Wait I'm confused. So there was a misfire and the slug lodged in the barrel, then your next shot was lucky because it was unloaded. What would have happened if you shot with a slub in the pipe? You wouldn't have been killed right? Maybe stitches on your hand...I've never considered this...

SCOTTGUN: it does not make you a hypocrite. No one party will encapsulate people's views. What if you're BOTH pro gun and pro choice? Then by necessity, if you vote for a major party, are you a hypocrite? That's ludicrous. Most libertarians are in this position. I disagree with...