Maine Town Rejects Mandatory Gun Ownership

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A similar measure was being considered in another Maine town (selectmen decided against putting it on the ballot) while a town in Georgia is also considering this.


http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013...-guns#comments

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...mandatory ownership is just as nutso as banning all guns...

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My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple. He was coming at it strictly from the POV of the government (even local) being more involved in our daily lives with what we can and can't do--civil liberties being eroded, etc. whereas I was going with the cold day in hell they'd tell me I had to have a gun. Civil disobedience isn't something I've done much of but that's where I'd draw the line. The only way you'd get me to have a gun is if you put it into my cold, dead hands.

[fljoe0]

My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple. He was coming at it strictly from the POV of the government (even local) being more involved in our daily lives with what we can and can't do--civil liberties being eroded, etc. whereas I was going with the cold day in hell they'd tell me I had to have a gun. Civil disobedience isn't something I've done much of but that's where I'd draw the line. The only way you'd get me to have a gun is if you put it into my cold, dead hands.

If the law passed, I was going to buy you a glock with a safety just so you could be in compliance.

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If the law passed, I was going to buy you a glock with a safety just so you could be in compliance.

Or we could just make her one out of a Pop Tart.............

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Or we could just make her one out of a Pop Tart.............

...then you could have your Glock and eat it too...

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...then you could have your Glock and eat it too...

[Shasta]

My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple. He was coming at it strictly from the POV of the government (even local) being more involved in our daily lives with what we can and can't do--civil liberties being eroded, etc. whereas I was going with the cold day in hell they'd tell me I had to have a gun. Civil disobedience isn't something I've done much of but that's where I'd draw the line. The only way you'd get me to have a gun is if you put it into my cold, dead hands.

But isn't the joy of being a Libertarian that you think no one should be able to tell you what to do on either side?

[exzel]

My partner and I had a somewhat heated debate about this type of local mandate last week. He's definitely more of a conservative, or perhaps libertarian, than I (bet that's a surprise, huh? ) sort of a James Carville/Mary Matalin couple.

“Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.”

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My partner has a concealed carry permit and from the somewhat guilty looks/body language I was picking up on, I suspect we may already be in compliance.