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<blockquote data-quote="Chuckie" data-source="post: 4052073" data-attributes="member: 42584">&quot; Hint: We aren&#039;t lobbying for criminals to carry explosives.&quot;Maybe not but some ARE lobbying to be able to carry explosives, rockets, flame-throwers, etc. &#039;. . . shall not be infringed&#039;.&nbsp; What I was trying to point out in many of my posts is that having that &quot;Right&#039; would not be exclusive to only the law-abiding.&nbsp; A lot more criminals WOULD be carrying these things only for the fact that they are currently strictly regulated. Throw in the fact that there are so many roaming our streets that simply do not have the responsibility to safely have these items and it&#039;s not hard to understand why some of these things need to stay under lock &amp; key.&nbsp; It&#039;s not about Constitutions or about &#039;Rights&#039;, it&#039;s about the reality of our society and what it would be like if &#039;. . . shall not infringe&#039; was truly the law of the land. One does not have to look far in modern history to see the results of an &#039;anything goes&#039; mentality (Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and so many others) where innocent &#039;civilians&#039; are being blown-up, machine gunned, and otherwise slaughtered en mass&#039; with items that are currently restricted in the US.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chuckie, post: 4052073, member: 42584"] " Hint: We aren't lobbying for criminals to carry explosives." Maybe not but some ARE lobbying to be able to carry explosives, rockets, flame-throwers, etc. '. . . shall not be infringed'. What I was trying to point out in many of my posts is that having that "Right' would not be exclusive to only the law-abiding. A lot more criminals WOULD be carrying these things only for the fact that they are currently strictly regulated. Throw in the fact that there are so many roaming our streets that simply do not have the responsibility to safely have these items and it's not hard to understand why some of these things need to stay under lock & key. It's not about Constitutions or about 'Rights', it's about the reality of our society and what it would be like if '. . . shall not infringe' was truly the law of the land. One does not have to look far in modern history to see the results of an 'anything goes' mentality (Northern Ireland, Lebanon, Venezuela, Afghanistan, Iraq, Israel, and so many others) where innocent 'civilians' are being blown-up, machine gunned, and otherwise slaughtered en mass' with items that are currently restricted in the US. [/QUOTE]

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