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Given the choice, The Swiss vote to keep thier guns

eye95

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The outcome is better than the other possible outcome, but this is not good news. That there was a vote in the first place implies that a vote can remove a natural right. That is a feature of a democracy and not of a constitutional republic that protects rights, regardless of democratic whims. Thank God we are not a democracy.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what is for dinner. Democracy is two white guys and a black guy deciding where on the bus the black guy must sit. Democracy is 50% +1 deciding whether the people have the right to keep and bear arms.
 

dng

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The outcome is better than the other possible outcome, but this is not good news. That there was a vote in the first place implies that a vote can remove a natural right. That is a feature of a democracy and not of a constitutional republic that protects rights, regardless of democratic whims. Thank God we are not a democracy.

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what is for dinner. Democracy is two white guys and a black guy deciding where on the bus the black guy must sit. Democracy is 50% +1 deciding whether the people have the right to keep and bear arms.

+1 This is so true. Majority rule means freedom, liberty, and rights go away.
 

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From the article-
"Doctors, churches and women's groups tried and failed Sunday to require military-issued firearms to be locked in secure army depots. They also wanted the Swiss government to establish a national gun registry and ban the sale of fully automatic weapons and pump-action rifles, arguing this would help cut incidents of domestic violence and Switzerland's high rate of firearms suicides".


LOL

"I was going to kill myself today but damn, I am not sure if this registered semi-auto will get the job done, If I had a full-auto unregistered firearm I could kill myself better."
 

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So a country that is known world-wide for its allowance of suicide clinics is trying to implement strict gun control to curb suicide?

I lol'd.
 

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So a country that is known world-wide for its allowance of suicide clinics is trying to implement strict gun control to curb suicide?

I lol'd.



Yeah, believe it or not, everyone in that country doesn't have the same opinion about everything. There are actually different points of view, they don't all share the same brain.
 
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