AMERICAN CONSERVATIVES...on the wrong side of everything!

Abortion: Take reponsibilty for your actions. If your old enough to have sex, you're old enough to raise the results. I haven't once seen a conservative try to tell someone they can't have any kids. Personally, I am for legalized abortion, except that the fifth one comes with a free tube ligation.

Homosexual Marriage: It's not solely an issue in the conservative camp. There are plenty of liberal democrats who want to keep a ban on Homosexuals marrying. Personally, I don't care what homosexuals do as long as I don't have to know about it.

Freedom of speech: Huh? Conservatives are against freedom of speech? Maybe hate speech or speech that can incite violence.

Firearms: Is there something wrong with people owning guns? The only thing I see is that it is wrong to use guns in commission of a crime. I refuse to let some idiots derail my rights, or your rights.

If a village tries to raise my children, I may be able to use my guns :wink:
My children are MY responsibilty. I choose what school they go to, I choose the doctor they see, I decide what they can and cannot do until they are old enough to be able to make those decisions for themselves.

Conservatives beleive that the individual has the right for themselves to decide what is best for them. They do not need the government telling them how to raise their children, what protection they are allowed to have or how to think.

Can't one be a social liberal and an economical conservative? Yes they can but I for one am not.

Some time back, I was on an interesting thread.

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Firearms: Is there something wrong with people owning guns? The only thing I see is that it is wrong to use guns in commission of a crime. I refuse to let some idiots derail my rights, or your rights.

But for much of the far right, whoever they may be, the issue is stretched to the point of insanity by opposing efforts to register and liscence firearm owners, or to make such records available to the authorities.

I would like to know what it is about gun ownership that causes people to haul out the term "far right" and then throw "insanity" into the same sentence

Hobit - They can get it. With a Warrant. Why should we print out a list and give it to them every Monday? Wouldn't that make gun owners an unfair target of discrimination? The cops pull you over and automatically walk up with their guns drawn because you might[/b] have a weapon? Isn't that tantamount to profiling?

I am very happy that you are a gun owner. Again you can come here and we can go to the range together and have a good day out of it, but I think printing out a list and giving it to authorities crosses the line into invasion of privacy and is also against the 4th amendment:
Article [IV.]

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

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I would like to know what it is about gun ownership that causes people to haul out the term "far right" and then throw "insanity" into the same sentence

You drew a conclusion that was completely unwarranted. You were wrong. It seems to be something of a hobby for you.

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Firearms: Is there something wrong with people owning guns? The only thing I see is that it is wrong to use guns in commission of a crime. I refuse to let some idiots derail my rights, or your rights.

But for much of the far right, whoever they may be, the issue is stretched to the point of insanity by opposing efforts to register and liscence firearm owners, or to make such records available to the authorities.

Actually it is a more effective weapon. Many more people die each year in car crashes than are shot either accidentally or intentionally.

My car is registered, and if the police want a copy of it they can get it, but there is not a list that is printed out daily, weekly, or even monthly.

They use their computers and look it up. This is basically what they can do NOW to find out if I have a gun.

When a law abiding citizen purchases a firearm, not only is their name put in a book but so are the thumb prints from both hands.

Did you have to do that to get a car? No! If the authorities want to find out what guns are registered to me, they can come ask me, and if I want to tell them I will.

If they have a warrant to search my house for a crime, I will gladly point out where I keep my pistols and rifles and shotguns. Right after I call my lawyer to make sure that everything is on the up and up.

As a matter of fact, liberals have harrassed me because I have a car. I have a jeep, and they accuse me of raping mother earth if[/b] I go off roading, or because I use gas.