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@Snorlax Re: Trump was right the first time

You should get some help for your fixation on guns. I would suggest seeing a doctor, but apparently under the NHS unless you tell them you're suicidal, its a six month wait.

And if you actually bothered to learn your history, you would have looked at the 1977 SCOTUS decision which said that wearing a swastika is protected under the First Amendment. This also led to the 1978 attempts by a neo-nazi to march on Skokie.

If you want you can google some recent articles in the Chicago Tribune that talk about the march as well as the protests around the decision by the Supreme Courts. Very interesting reading.

And there were more than just Neo-Nazis. There were 'alt-right', 'former KKK' and other hate groups making up one side. On the other BLM, and Antifa were also present, armed and looking for a fight. Heck you can even google and find a FB post by BLM looking for Paypal donations to send people in to the city for a fight.

Plenty of blame to go around son... and frankly, you and your lack of thought isn't helping. Nor do you appreciate the larger issue.

If Americans were to make certain ideology groups outlawed, you would have started down the path of who's next? You want to go after Neo Nazis. Sure, I get it, who doesn't? What about the Antifa who's name is ironic because they are acting like the fascists they claim to hate? Black Lives Matter who's marches and protests have caused damage, shut down highways, and have openly called for the execution of the police? (Dallas, Louisiana, NYC just to name a few examples. )

And then you have the BSA (Boy Scouts of America) which has been compared to the Hitler Youth.

(Yes, you too can google it...)

Do you ban the BSA?

Really?

Hopefully now you see the problem.

@Snorlax... Re: Trump was right the first time

Dude!

You are so utterly clueless.

I bet you support BDS too.

Look mate, I'll break it down for you.

You said :

@Sir Runcible Spoon:"So, the Police should have shut the rally down in the first place once they saw the NN's tooled up, Shirley?"

Anywhere else on earth, yes, that would have been the sensible thing to do.

The problem with Americans is that they think every constitutional right is absolute, and that their rights trump everybody else's.

So, clearly you're not an American and you don't know our history or our laws.

Go back to 1977 (probably before you were born) and check out the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) supporting the right for a neo nazi maroon to wear a swastika on his arm.

This is also the same maroon who wanted to march his neo nazi group, brownshirts and all , down main street in Skokie IL.

He won.

He made two attempts to march but they were shut down mid march because the police couldn't guarantee their safety. (He gave up on his third attempt.)

Keep in mind, back then, you didn't bus people in, and you didn't need to have weapons.

So, yes the police could have shut down the event in Virginia.

As to our rights.

Yes they do supersede other laws. And what you don't realize is that when you attempt to shut them down, you walk down a slippery slope that ends up with no freedoms and you're in some sort of kafkaesque world.

I don't blame you for your ignorance. Too many Americans also fail to grok the importance of our liberties.

@Snorlax Re: Trump was right the first time

"The problem with Americans is that they think every constitutional right is absolute, and that their rights trump everybody else's."

That is what separates us from the rest of the (Third) World.

The right to free speech (oxymoronically by paid permit in this case) guarantees that you can say your piece. No matter how right or wrong it may be. And I have the right to disagree with you. And then we can go get a beer and still be friends. Although, I don't want any friends that hate people based on race, religion, orientation, et al, ad nauseum.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,"

Some people seem to forget that from the DoI and that it is inexorably linked to the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

But if you're not American, you wouldn't understand this kind of pride anyway.

As a great King once said, "Can't we all just get along?"

Re: @Snorlax Trump was right the first time

Son,

First, you said assault rifles.

Those are class III weapons. Under NFA regulation.

Clearly you don't know your gun laws. (NFA is national, yet there are others that vary state by state )

There were no assault rifles present.

(Free clue. I live in Chicago IL. I can legally own an M1A. I cannot own a select fire M14, AR-15, or M-16, M4 or other variants. I cannot place my M1A in certain stocks that have a pistol grip. This is due to Chicago and Cook County gun laws. Of the guns I listed, M-14, M-16 and the M-4 are all select fire rifles which would classify them as assault rifles. The State of IL doesn't allow civilian ownership of NFA regulated weapons. Do you really want to question my knowledge of gun laws and weapons?)

Now with respect to the march, not everyone was carrying a weapon. (The rifles were considered open carry) And funny how in all of the melee there was no firearm discharge, now why was that?

(Again you need to know your gun laws...)

So the only one spouting nonsense is you.

You clearly don't know your gun laws and you clearly don't understand why no firearms were used.