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soothsayer

(38,601 posts)
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 11:06 AM Apr 2021

Tweet of the moment


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TheSadTruth💙
@ReportsDaNews
Almost 1 year ago,

On April 18–19, 2020, Gabriel Wortman committed multiple shootings in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, killing 22 people and injuring three others.

This was our last mass shooting.

We banned assault rifles right after this.
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Tweet of the moment (Original Post) soothsayer Apr 2021 OP
Look out for incoming gun porn. Kingofalldems Apr 2021 #1
Never heard the term "gun porn", educate me someone. Thanks KS Toronado Apr 2021 #2
Pics of automatic weapons. Kingofalldems Apr 2021 #3
Learned something today...... KS Toronado Apr 2021 #7
Gun rights are well publicized, rickmoen Apr 2021 #4
I would hope so. It's murder we're talking about after all. ananda Apr 2021 #9
And we didn't even come close to matching Australia's "world record" at Port Arthur. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #5
Oh, and BTW. BobTheSubgenius Apr 2021 #6
Hopefully we can ban most guns here in the US someday. Canoe52 Apr 2021 #8
Me too. THAT is "the price we pay for 'freedom'?" calimary Apr 2021 #11
All of Canada? Or only Novia Scotia Tbear Apr 2021 #10
Allow me ... yes, all of Canada. The pistol barrel info in a post was related to Australia I think. KPN Apr 2021 #12
+1, uponit7771 Apr 2021 #14
Thank you! soothsayer Apr 2021 #15
My pleasure. KPN Apr 2021 #18
Call them PGRs, Pistol Grip Rifles ... its harder for Gumpers to argue with the label. uponit7771 Apr 2021 #13
Rt TY! I hate the Gaslighting Gun Humpers Cha Apr 2021 #16
k&r Demovictory9 Apr 2021 #17

ananda

(28,859 posts)
9. I would hope so. It's murder we're talking about after all.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 12:11 PM
Apr 2021

The right to LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
5. And we didn't even come close to matching Australia's "world record" at Port Arthur.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 12:03 PM
Apr 2021

Australian govt. DID come for their guns, and in a big way. The entire population went mild. "Oh, OK. Seems fair."

BobTheSubgenius

(11,563 posts)
6. Oh, and BTW.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 12:06 PM
Apr 2021

Short-barrelled pistols are also banned. I inherited a German officer's WW2 sidearm (a JP Sauer and Sohns, forerunner to Sieg Sauer) and had to get rid of it. Even the ammunition is illegal, which seems reasonable.

Canoe52

(2,948 posts)
8. Hopefully we can ban most guns here in the US someday.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 12:09 PM
Apr 2021

So tired of hearing about mass shootings being the price we pay for our freedoms.
(stoopidest logic I’ve ever heard)

What about the freedom to not worry about what the next gun nut will do.

calimary

(81,260 posts)
11. Me too. THAT is "the price we pay for 'freedom'?"
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 01:10 PM
Apr 2021

Too high a price.

And usually, if me could argue, a price is something you pay in exchange for something - ONCE. and HOW MANY TIMES have we had to “pay for ‘freedom’ in this particular “exchange”?

How many broken hearts, broken families, motherless children, fatherless children, widows and widowers have we bargained away for this “freedom”?

I don’t think the price tag is worth this so-called “freedom”.

I don’t think the price tag is worth ANYTHING.

Tbear

(487 posts)
10. All of Canada? Or only Novia Scotia
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 12:45 PM
Apr 2021

Also curious what the minimum length for a pistol barrel and which ammo did they ban?

KPN

(15,645 posts)
12. Allow me ... yes, all of Canada. The pistol barrel info in a post was related to Australia I think.
Fri Apr 16, 2021, 01:54 PM
Apr 2021

We should be like Canada and Australia.

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