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No, this is a violation of the 2nd amendment

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  @Yaunti2  from New York  disagreed…3yrs3Y

The 2nd amendment protects gun ownership, but it doesn't prevent regulations for public safety. And buybacks can reduce the number of guns in circulation, potentially reducing gun violence.

 @3GJFQQGcommented…2yrs2Y

No studies have shown gun buybacks work

 @BCYDFMC  from Washington  disagreed…2mos2MO

The main reason I've seen for people wishing to buy back or ban guns is to "reduce gun violence." Ask yourself this: if you were planning something horrible, say, breaking into a house and killing your ex, would a ban on guns or fewer guns in circulation stop you from getting one? No, probably not, the black market already sells military-grade weaponry, and it wouldn't be a stretch to assume that you're going to be able to get some sort of firearm. All in all, banning or buying back guns doesn't reduce gun violence; if anything, it increases the potential quality…  Read more

 @9FBXPCZ from Hawaii  agreed…3yrs3Y

The people have the right to protect themselves. Look at Russia for what happens when the government is the only one who has guns. Look at Ukraine for the benefits of an armed population. Ukrainians are now able to defend themselves from the Russians while the Russian protestors are being “disappeared” by the government.

  @JonBSimConstitutionfrom Kentucky  agreed…4yrs4Y

"Shall not be infringed."

 @9F85M6R from Nevada  agreed…3yrs3Y

The Constitution provides the right to bear arms. Forcing somebody to give their gun to the government is a clear and obvious violation of the Second Amendment.

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 @ISIDEWITH submitted…2yrs2Y

Elizabeth Warren Walks Back Murder Comments

Congressional Democrats broadly denounced the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson Friday morning, after Republicans started accusing Sen. Elizabeth Warren of excusing violence.“No one's condoning this,” said Rep. Brad Schneider (D-Ill.). “Violence never is the right answer for anything. And it was a horrible murder, a tragic loss for his family.” Warren this week condemned the shooting, but added that people “can be pushed only so far.”"We'll say it over and over," Warren said on MSNBC’S “The ReidOut.” " Violence is never the answer. This guy [Luigi Mangione] gets a trial who's allegedly killed the CEO of UnitedHealth, but you can only push people so far, and then they start to take matters into their own hands."In a statement to POLITICO, Warren said, “Violence is never the answer. Period. I should have been much clearer that there is never a justification for murder.” Top Republicans denounced Warren's comments and the walked-back rhetoric, with House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) calling it “inappropriate and dangerous.”Some House Democrats asked about the incident on Thursday pivoted the conversation to discuss policy options on health care or gun safety.“I don't really know that this is really a space that Congress normally weighs in on,” said Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas). “But at the end of the day, I think it’s an opportunity, because now people are talking about health care and to talk about the fact that this industry has honestly not been as helpful as it could be.”“Violence is never the answer,” said Rep. Troy Carter (D-La.). “We know that there are people suffering, there’s great challenges in healthcare. There's great challenges, and people have, in fact, been wronged, but a process of governance is the way to address that, not violence.”And Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) who denounced the murder, said the killer should be prosecuted and that “I do know that allegedly a ghost gun was used, and we should also ban ghost guns. There's no reason for them beyond the streets.”

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Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.The Israeli military has ordered people living in more than a quarter of Lebanon to flee, according to a UN calculation, as its fight with the Iran-backed Shia militant group Hizbollah threatens to engulf the Mediterranean country.Lebanese authorities say Israeli bombing has killed more than 2,300 people and injured almost 11,000, mostly in the past three weeks, with Israeli attacks reaching areas far beyond Hizbollah’s traditional bastions of support in the south.More than 1mn people have fled their homes in Lebanon in under a month, according to its government, a dramatic forced movement of the population in a country of only about 5mn inhabitants with a land mass smaller than the US state of Connecticut. Israeli forces began a ground offensive in south Lebanon two weeks ago, in their fourth invasion of the country in under five decades. They had already destroyed large parts of the densely populated southern Beirut suburb where Hizbollah had its headquarters, and killed many top militant commanders in air strikes, including former leader Hassan Nasrallah.Rema Jamous Imseis, Middle East director of UNHCR, told journalists in Geneva that “over 25 per cent of [Lebanon is] under a direct Israeli military evacuation order”. “People are heeding these calls to evacuate and they’re fleeing with almost nothing,” she added, saying that 80 per cent of the shelters opened by the Lebanese government — mostly in schools — were now full.

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