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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1122955" data-attributes="member: 14668"><p>I'm going to make an analogy here. Not a straw man, but a good old fashioned analogy.</p><p></p><p>Black people in Mississippi in the 1950's were not "banned" from voting. There was no law on the books that specifically prohibited them from casting a ballot based upon race. In <em>theory,</em> they had the same rights as white people did.</p><p></p><p>The <em>reality</em>...was a whole different story. There were "reasonable" poll taxes and "common sense" literacy tests...administered by whites of course...that had the <em>practical effect</em> of disenfranchising an entire race of people which was the intent all along. It was a <em>de facto</em> ban rather than a <em>stated</em> one, but in the end the result was the same.</p><p></p><p>A similar situation exists today with regards to gun rights. No sane politician would ever call for an outright <em>ban</em>on gun ownership, even though that <em>is </em>in fact the underlying goal of the Bloombergs and Feinsteins and Pelosis and other like-minded dipsticks in Congress. Their bigotry and hatred of guns runs deep, but rather than calling for an outright ban they instead seek to bury our 2nd Amendment rights under such an overwhelming tangle of "reasonable, common sense" rules and regulations and taxes and fees as to render those rights meaningless. A "right" that exists only in theory is no right at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1122955, member: 14668"] I'm going to make an analogy here. Not a straw man, but a good old fashioned analogy. Black people in Mississippi in the 1950's were not "banned" from voting. There was no law on the books that specifically prohibited them from casting a ballot based upon race. In [I]theory,[/I] they had the same rights as white people did. The [I]reality[/I]...was a whole different story. There were "reasonable" poll taxes and "common sense" literacy tests...administered by whites of course...that had the [I]practical effect[/I] of disenfranchising an entire race of people which was the intent all along. It was a [I]de facto[/I] ban rather than a [I]stated[/I] one, but in the end the result was the same. A similar situation exists today with regards to gun rights. No sane politician would ever call for an outright [I]ban[/I]on gun ownership, even though that [I]is [/I]in fact the underlying goal of the Bloombergs and Feinsteins and Pelosis and other like-minded dipsticks in Congress. Their bigotry and hatred of guns runs deep, but rather than calling for an outright ban they instead seek to bury our 2nd Amendment rights under such an overwhelming tangle of "reasonable, common sense" rules and regulations and taxes and fees as to render those rights meaningless. A "right" that exists only in theory is no right at all. [/QUOTE]
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