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NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:04 PM Jun 2022

Mission accomplished?

If the gun-humpers across the country are trying to prove why it's necessary to regulate firearms, they are doing - you'll pardon the pun - a bang-up job.

Nothing says "we gun owners are law-abiding citizens" like an uptick in mass shootings immediately following a public outcry after the slaughter of schoolchildren at the hands of a gunman.

Nothing supports the "good man with a gun" myth quite like a gathering of NRA members refusing to allow weapons in the auditorium where their annual meeting took place.

Nothing screams "we are responsible weapons owners" like nation-wide headlines about dead Americans shot down by responsible, law-abiding citizens who turned out to be a tad less law-biding and responsible than previously advertised.

It's almost as though these gun-humpers want to be proven dangerous, want to be exposed as murderous lunatics, want to be revealed as bad guys with guns who pose an obvious threat to society.

I have to say that if their goal is to demonstrate why gun-humpers need to be stopped, they're doing an amazing job of achieving it.


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Mission accomplished? (Original Post) NanceGreggs Jun 2022 OP
"Experts" say that mass shootings happen in BigmanPigman Jun 2022 #1
Have any of those 'experts' ... NanceGreggs Jun 2022 #3
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness pwb Jun 2022 #2

NanceGreggs

(27,814 posts)
3. Have any of those 'experts' ...
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:23 PM
Jun 2022

... opined on why "responsible gun owners" turn a blind eye to those mass shootings?

You'd think that gun-owning "law-abiding citizens" would be the first to condemn those who put all gun-owners at risk of losing their "second amendment rights" by literally proving that many of their own can't be trusted with weapons - and yet the silence is deafening.


pwb

(11,261 posts)
2. Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness
Wed Jun 1, 2022, 08:16 PM
Jun 2022

for all of us is pushed aside, so that freaks can buy guns. Fuck me.

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