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[QUOTE=finnbow;34669]If you think the bloodletting over the health care bill, TARP or the financial bill was nasty, any action by the Democratic Party to change this would likely be just the thing to tip the balance toward the armed insurrection feared in another recent thread.
Could that justify limiting access to firearms? Just asking; in practical terms once guns are out there they're out there; not too many enthusiasts would hand them over even if they were asked nicely.
The whole thing about gun control is interesting. Up to the end of the Napoleonic war, the only real gun control over here was cost; your average working man couldn't afford one but when the war ended, that plus the French revolution lead to the government (scared shitless at the thought of unemployed infantrymen wandering the streets, fully armed and unemployed) bringing in the first gun control laws.
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