Canadian Born Patriot dominates senate in 4th longest filibuster ever!

[Dinner]

He's also opposed to the 2nd Amendment for civilians. Odd that.

No, I'm not, ********. I do support sane and reasonable restrictions in the name of public safety though. I would like to see universal background checks, a complete registry to help prevent straw buyers who knowingly resell guns illegally to criminals, a requirement of test of the laws regarding guns and firearms (at least as hard as the DMV test), and it sure as hell would be nice if people had to get psychological evals done before they were allowed to buy a gun (and have them periodically redo the psych test) just to make sure raving nutters aren't handed a deadly weapon.

None of that outlaws guns nor violates the 2nd amendment and instead fulfills the "well regulated" requirement put into the second amendment. You're almost as full of **** as Sloww is in the other thread.

[SlowwHand]

Yes it does violate the 2nd Amendment. Big Brother doesn't need a list of all that possess a gun.

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Whether it violates the second amendment or not, the reason a gun registry is bad is because rounding up legal guns after a ban would be way too easy. As it stands it's pretty much impossible for the government to try to collect stuff it restricts. Obviously even with a registry, collecting any guns from criminals would never happen.

Just last week I saw someone at my range shooting an AK-47 in a non-NY legal configuration as of NY SAFE. Even if MCSO cared, which they don't, they don't know and won't know.

[Dinner]

You qualified on the 240 but not the 249?

You did crew served too, right?

My unit did not have M249s. Up until ~2000 we had a few M60s left around but they phased in M240Bs to replace the M60s. They also had a .50 cal machine gun but we hardly used those on the teams. I shot the .50 cal a few times but our primary machine gun was the M240B.

[Ben Kenobi]

Big Brother doesn't need a list of all that possess a gun.

Oerdin believes that gun ownership by civilians is a bad thing. It would be best if we would let our betters protect us.

[Dinner]

Yes it does violate the 2nd Amendment. Big Brother doesn't need a list of all that possess a gun.

However you feel about gun registration it does not violate the 2nd.

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The court hasn't ruled on it but I suspect that yes it would be upheld.

I'm still opposed to it though.

[Dinner]

Oerdin believes that gun ownership by civilians is a bad thing. It would be best if we would let our betters protect us.

I have never said anything of the sort, ****. You just love lying even more than Sloww.

[SlowwHand]

That's the source of the debate, Oerdin. You can toss around all the '**** comments that you want, but they're fairly non-convincing in the effort to sway someone.

[Dinner]

The **** comments were aimed at Ben and I'm fairly confident that most posters would agree he's a ****.

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It is known.

[SlowwHand]

If I have to come down on one side or the other, I'm not a fan of filibustering.

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WASHINGTON—Speaking with reporters from his desk in the Oval Office Wednesday, President Ted Cruz found a moment to take a break from his duties as commander in chief and leader of the free world to fondly recall the marathon anti-Obamacare Senate speech he delivered in 2013, the one that propelled his ascent to the presidency.

By explaining that a purple finch is crimson, saying that a Panama hat is from Ecuador, and comparing those who refused to stand up to the Nazis with those who refused to stand up to Obamacare, the then freshman Senator Cruz set himself apart from other presidential hopefuls that fateful September day and instantly became a legitimate contender for the White House.

Cruz went on to handily defeat Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton 509-29 in the 2016 Electoral College, with numerous voters—especially Independents and moderate Democrats and Republicans—citing Cruz’s speech, and his assertion that “law is not a breast that fills itself with milk,” as the reason they ultimately cast a ballot for him.

“It was a gamble, but it paid off,” President Cruz said, adding that he had a feeling on that fateful day years ago that likening his struggle against Obamacare to the rebel alliance’s battle against the Empire in Star Wars would be a message that would resonate with the nation’s electorate. “I knew I was doing something special, and I knew that the American people would definitely take me and the Republican Party seriously if I compared my speech to the Bataan Death March in which nearly 10,000 Filipino POWs died before they could reach their destination at Camp O’Donnell.”

“‘They did not like Obamacare in a box, with a fox, in a house, or with a mouse,’” Cruz continued, recalling an excerpt from the historic speech. “Strong words, absolutely. No wonder they rocked our nation to its core.”

Cruz, who used video of the speech during the 2016 primary season to delegitimize a slew of Republican opponents including Chris Christie, ultimately went on that year to build the broad coalition necessary to take the White House. Sources confirmed that following Cruz’s 2013 Senate floor address, in which he confirmed that Chinese gooseberries actually come from New Zealand, a majority of Americans, not just those who identified as members of the Tea Party, immediately began supporting the Republican Party.

During his first debate against Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, Cruz said in his closing remarks, “You might think a camel-hair brush must be made of camel, but a camel-hair brush is made of squirrel fur”—a clear allusion to his widely quoted and admired 2013 Obamacare speech, and a touch that, according to political experts, won him the election right there.

“When he got up and talked for 21 hours about Duck Dynasty, those ‘little burgers’ from White Castle, and how the restaurant his father worked at was a cross between a Denny’s and a Benihana, that’s when I knew: That’s the guy I’m going to vote for in three years,” said real estate agent Erin Greene, who lives in Florida, a state that Cruz easily carried by over 2 million votes in 2016. “I was watching history happen in front of my eyes. When he sang a Toby Keith song saying ‘we'll put a boot in your . . . posterior,’ it was like, okay, a political star is born.”

“This entire country said to itself, ‘This is the man who is going to lead us,’” Greene said. “America woke up that day.”

President Cruz enjoyed comfortable leads in the polls throughout the run-up to the November 2016 election, with only two noteworthy instances in which Clinton ever pulled ahead. The former New York senator was summarily beaten back, however, as the Cruz campaign expertly wielded what proved to be its ultimate trump card: his 2013 Senate floor speech.

“Every time [Clinton] made a little headway, we’d just trot out Green Eggs And Ham,” President Cruz explained. “Just kept on playing that clip over and over again. There was no more powerful message. It not only showed who I was, but proved the Republican Party to be inclusive, united, down to earth, and ready to lead.”.

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DP

[N35t0r]

Yes it does violate the 2nd Amendment. Big Brother doesn't need a list of all that possess a gun.

Oh no! The government ha a list of all that ppossess vehicles! They're going to come and take them away!!!!!