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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Blaubart, post: 1634373, member: 37498&quot;]I didn&#039;t say they did.&nbsp; They had to do with the quote in my post where Tim essentially said he&#039;d be willing to sacrifice anything in exchange for increased security.&nbsp; So no, they weren&#039;t an overreaction or a slippery slope argument.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find it interesting that our rights can be incrementally chipped away to a point where if from the beginning a person would have been accused of presenting a slippery slope argument if they would have predicted where it was going:</p><p><br /></p><p>- All we&#039;re talking about here is restricting and taxing fully automatic machine guns, short barreled rifles, and silencers, not all guns. (National Firearms Act, 1934)</p><p><br /></p><p>- We&#039;re not banning all guns, we&#039;re just banning those guns from foreign countries without a &quot;legitimate sporting purpose&quot;. (Executive order)</p><p><br /></p><p>- Don&#039;t be silly, you can still defend your family with a handgun that holds less than ten rounds. (Gun Control Act of 1994)</p><p><br /></p><p>- Feel free to carry a gun, just not within 1000 feet of a public, private, or parochial school. (Gun free school zones act of 1990)&nbsp; Have you ever plotted this out on a city map?&nbsp; A person essentially cannot cannot carry a gun inside a city and be in compliance with this law.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>- You just can&#039;t carry a loaded gun, but you can carry a gun on your hip and ammunition in your pocket. (California law)</p><p><br /></p><p>- Oh, I guess you can&#039;t carry an unloaded gun either. (California law a few years later)</p><p><br /></p><p>- You can own a gun, but only the state approved guns on this list that are virtually worthless in a true self defense situation. (California)</p><p><br /></p><p>- &quot;Shall not be infringed&quot; means there can be &quot;reasonable restrictions&quot;.&nbsp; (Supreme Court)</p><p><br /></p><p>- &quot;Reasonable restrictions&quot; means we can do whatever we want.&nbsp; (Chicago and Washington DC)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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