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Originally Posted by MaleFashionista
Contemporary American conservatism does not advocate returning to a gold standard and allowing private institutions to issue their own currencies. Nor does it necessarily support abolishing all gun control measures...including restrictions assault weapons and concealed weapon laws. Nor does it necessarily mean supporting an all out ban on embryonic stem cell research...Ron Paul is more of a hodgepodge of Libertarian ideas and hardcore right wing conservatism than anything else.
If anything, I tend to lean right on everything except a handful of social issues...and I hardly believe that rejecting Ron Paul & some of his kookier stances is tantamount to a wholesale rejection of conservatism.
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The "assault weapons ban" that you're referring to Ron Paul repealing is a ban on assault-
style weapons. It bans the semi-automatic variants of military rifles, which is pointless - they're functionally the same as a normal hunting rifle.
Real "assault weapons" have been restricted since 1968.
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Originally Posted by Kaminyu
There's nothing "kooky" about having honest money, or giving people their constitutional "right to bear arms", since gun control laws really only effect adversely the people who abide by them
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Agreed on all counts.