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<blockquote data-quote="soberups" data-source="post: 1357195" data-attributes="member: 14668">You don&#039;t have to &quot;ban&quot; guns in order to make them virtually impossible to obtain. You only have to make them unaffordable, unobtainable, or attach so many impossible licensing and registration requirements to them that the average person simply cant get one. Kinda like all the black Americans in Alabama back in the 1950&#039;s whose 15th Amendment voting rights were totally nullified by &quot;common sense&quot; and &quot;reasonable&quot; poll taxes and literacy tests imposed by whites with the express intent to disenfranchise them. I don&#039;t recall the Supreme Court doing a damn thing for those people, it took actual intervention by the federal government in the form of the Voting Rights Act to force racist states to allow blacks to vote. And as far as gun rights go, the cities of Washington DC and Chicago are still going out of their way to do everything they can to deny their citizens their 2nd Amendment rights even after the Supreme Court ruled...twice... that their bans on handguns were unconstitutional.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="soberups, post: 1357195, member: 14668"] You don't have to "ban" guns in order to make them virtually impossible to obtain. You only have to make them unaffordable, unobtainable, or attach so many impossible licensing and registration requirements to them that the average person simply cant get one. Kinda like all the black Americans in Alabama back in the 1950's whose 15th Amendment voting rights were totally nullified by "common sense" and "reasonable" poll taxes and literacy tests imposed by whites with the express intent to disenfranchise them. I don't recall the Supreme Court doing a[B] damn thing[/B] for those people, it took actual intervention by the federal government in the form of the Voting Rights Act to force racist states to allow blacks to vote. And as far as gun rights go, the cities of Washington DC and Chicago are[I] still[/I] going out of their way to do everything they can to deny their citizens their 2nd Amendment rights even after the Supreme Court ruled...[B]twice[/B]... that their bans on handguns were unconstitutional. [/QUOTE]

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