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If only reproductive rights were in the Constitution, then no one could restrict them in any way whatsoever without the Tea Party and Republicans shouting TYRANNY!!1!. Also BENGHAZII!!!.

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The only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with horses and bayonets!

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The shop owner is in the business of selling guns and ammo. Given that, why would you expect him to have suspicions?

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NRA spin: Restrictive gun laws throw Navy Yard shooter into psychopathic rage. Time to end gun restrictions.

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Indeed. You can't hear them over the near-continuous gunfire.

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Blah blah armed guards blah.

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(semi-automatic, not that the difference means as much as the fetishists insist... especially in light of the apparent legality of the slide-fire stock)

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<blockquote>So there ARE actual gun controls in place in Virginia? </blockquote>

For now. Since this one has been brought to everyone's attention, presumably including Bob McDonnell's, I wouldn't bet on it surviving long. Unless he's too busy trying to manage his corruption crisis, of course.

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Disorganization, poor planning, and lack of impulse control are all kinda part and parcel of crazy.

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Cars are primarily designed and used for a constructive purpose, which greatly increases national productivity and quality of life. Unfortunate side-effects like significant numbers of deaths are more tolerable, especially as you can't prove that, say, without cars there wouldn't be as many or more people simply starving to death, or dying because they couldn't reach medical care in time.

Guns are primarily designed for killing. They have proven to be very good at it. They provide very little benefit outside the killing or the threat to kill.

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And as if the confusion as to how many shooters there were somehow suggests that more people waving guns around would improve the situation.

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