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To: marktwain
I am absolutely amazed at the fact that the right to carry crowd fails to profit by the American towns of Deadwood, Dodge City, Wichita, Bodie, Abilene and Tombstone. They all were "Open Carry" and it worked so well that the people of those days were the ones who passed laws controlling the bearing of arms.

I can just see everybody carrying arms. Remember everybody includes "Ole Hoss" in the bar drunk as hell brandishing his two .44 magnums. He then fires in his alcoholic state and the bullet passes through the bar wall killing ten year old Susie walking by the bar on her way home from school.

Further, in the days of Dodge City there was a greater chance that the people involved in an "Open Carry" situation knew or were at least acquainted with each other. Today is very anonymous and there would be no moderating factor of personal knowledge.(Which did not stop the carnage resulting from "Open Carry."

Well regulated carry, with permits, no guns in bars even if have a permit, guns ok in ones house or place of business. Even to get a permit to carry one must show good cause such as carrying large sums of money, drugs etc. When going hunting or target shooting the gun is placed in the trunk and the ammo in the glove box. All the aforementioned are sane rules.

I'm glad the cops arrested the turkey in the photo. He is an idiot and should not even be allowed to have a gun. Unrestricted carrying is a bad policy.

By the way I have owned guns hunted and gone target shooting since the early 1950's. I support the Second Amendment

10 posted on 01/26/2014 8:02:17 AM PST by AEMILIUS PAULUS (It is a shame that when these people give a riot)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

What a contorted way to admit you approve of gun control...


12 posted on 01/26/2014 8:08:36 AM PST by Dead Corpse (I will not comply.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Even to get a permit to carry one must show good cause such as carrying large sums of money

Not in a "shall issue" state, which most states are..........I don't think you really know gun laws at all and to say you support the 2nd Amendment is laughable.

14 posted on 01/26/2014 8:12:53 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Unrestricted carrying is a bad policy.

More hogwash.....Michigan is an open carry state and there has never been a shooting as a result of our right........

15 posted on 01/26/2014 8:15:48 AM PST by Hot Tabasco (Miss Muffit suffered from arachnophobia.....)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Contrary to your statement, you do NOT support the 2nd Amendment.

You support infringements upon the right of free people to keep and bear arms. You support RULES and MODIFICATIONS to the 2nd Amendment.

C


16 posted on 01/26/2014 8:16:32 AM PST by Chasaway (Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Even to get a permit to carry one must show good cause such as carrying large sums of money, drugs etc. When going hunting or target shooting the gun is placed in the trunk and the ammo in the glove box. All the aforementioned are sane rules.

Common sense gun control, in other words? You know where you shove that drivel I assume.

17 posted on 01/26/2014 8:17:24 AM PST by MileHi ( "It's coming down to patriots vs the politicians." - ovrtaxt)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

Sorry, you’re just another Zumbo-Fudd without a clue on the meaning of “shall not be infringed” while trying to create an excuse for government control over natural rights.


18 posted on 01/26/2014 8:17:48 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
I support the Second Amendment

With all due respect, it does not sound like you do so. What part of "shall not be infringed" do you fail to understand? I think you've bought in to the leftist drivel about firearms; the constant repetition may have programmed your thinking.

19 posted on 01/26/2014 8:19:16 AM PST by JimRed (Excise the cancer before it kills us; feed & water the Tree of Liberty! TERM LIMITS NOW & FOREVER!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS; All
Most states allow legal open carry. The scenarios that you imagine do not take place. The regulation of open carry in the cowtowns was against cowboys ending cattle drives, and was a source of income for the towns, who levied a fine against the cowboys. Here is the current state of open carry:
21 posted on 01/26/2014 8:24:25 AM PST by marktwain (The old media must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
By the way I have owned guns hunted and gone target shooting since the early 1950's. I support the Second Amendment

You don't seem to know what the 2nd Amendment is for.

23 posted on 01/26/2014 8:34:32 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Socialism consumes everything)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS; JRandomFreeper

“Unrestricted carrying is a bad policy.”

Your page doesn’t say in which state you live. Texans with concealed carry permits right now are carrying guns. They could take them out and kill people right now but that doesn’t happen. Open carry means they don’t have to keep them hidden anymore. If you think keeping guns concealed means safety and showing them means people will shoot each other at the drop of a hat, you are not thinking clearly. Perhaps it scares you to see a gun. If you are not from Texas then don’t come here if you don’t want to see a gun.


32 posted on 01/26/2014 8:59:20 AM PST by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
Pound sand, statist. You need to go to DU or North Korea, where they appreciate your strict gun-control stance.

/johnny

34 posted on 01/26/2014 9:15:29 AM PST by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
I support the Second Amendment

You do not.

39 posted on 01/26/2014 10:17:40 AM PST by cpdiii (Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!!!!)
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS
AEMILIUS PAULUS said: "All the aforementioned are sane rules."

According to you, then, the "right" referred to in the Second Amendment is subject to "sane rules" passed by the government. Is that what you think the Founders meant?

Or were the Founders intentionally trying to deprive the government of the ability to disarm the people, as they did in occupied Boston and attempted to do in Lexington and Concord?

If you and I don't agree on one of your "sane rules", what then? Let the government decide?

43 posted on 01/26/2014 12:36:51 PM PST by William Tell
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To: AEMILIUS PAULUS

I don’t know if “Ole Hoss” in the bar drunk as hell brandishing his two .44 magnums is the only drunk in your post.

And you’ve been on FR for what, 14 years?

Grow up.


51 posted on 01/26/2014 4:09:39 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (Vote Democrat. Once you're OK with killing babies the rest is easy. <BCC><)
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