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    | How Do Reasonable People Become Gun Zealots? Submitted by: 
David Williamson
 Website: http://libertyparkpress.com
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    | The 2019 Utah legislative session, dominated by LDS Republicans, was a stunning exhibit of Mormon values simply forgotten. Dismissed.  The honest, otherwise decent legislators are probably good husbands, wives, fathers, mothers and loyal members of their faith. Yet it is shocking to observe the spectacular metamorphosis that occurs when they have to address a gun issue. Suddenly they become rabid, myopic disciples of the NRA, spouting the same old fears about the slippery slope to gun confiscation.
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    | Comment by: 
     Stripeseven
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    | Metamorphosis? How about just plain "in defense" of a right protected by the Constitution? Law abiding citizens refuse to take responsibility for the actions of criminals. |  
 
 
     
  
    | Comment by: 
     MarkHamTownsend
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    | With congresskritter Eric Swalwell and his ilk around,  fearing gun confiscation is neither myopic or paranoid. Swalwell WANTS semiautos CONFISCATED.
 Bans and confiscations have happened in this country, despite this author's ignorant blather. Fearing them only means one is informed, not the ignoramus gun banners hope for.
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                      | We'll take one step at a time, and the first is necessarily - given the political realities - very modest.  We'll have to start working again to strengthen the law, and then again to strengthen the next law and again and again.  Our ultimate goal, total control of handguns, is going to take time.  The first problem is to slow down production and sales.  Next is to get registration.  The final problem is to make possession of all handguns and ammunition (with a few exceptions) totally illegal.  — Pete Shields, founder of Handgun Control, Inc., New Yorker Magazine, June 26, 1976, pg. 53 |  |  |