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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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1. Prohibition movements always seek to criminalize masses of people by legislation.

Reply to sarisataka (Original post)

Mon Nov 9, 2015, 05:33 PM

Nov 2015

Gin, gays, guns, ganja -- and now tobacco -- the effort to outlaw a thing, status, or practice will criminalize in broad strokes. This is a political short cut to attack the ethics and morals of large populations; to disparage them as inferior, "the other," and of course "criminal."

Laws prohibiting practices harmful to others, if they have any effectiveness, are based on deep, wide-spread, historically-persistent values.

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Glenn Reynolds: How gun laws put the innocent on trial [View all] sarisataka Nov 2015 OP

Prohibition movements always seek to criminalize masses of people by legislation. Eleanors38 Nov 2015 #1

Salon magazine said about this same thing back in July... virginia mountainman Nov 2015 #2

They're far more concerned with the means than the ends. beevul Nov 2015 #4

K&R discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2015 #3