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Logical

(22,457 posts)
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:03 AM Jun 2016

Neither the House or Senate have 5% of members who would vote to......

Ban guns or collect existing guns.

Any discussion about that is ridiculous!

An Assault rifle is no different than a hunting rifle when it comes to killing people.

This guy wasn't using an automatic weapon.

Most mass shooters get their gun legally.

Every shooting these discussions come up and people do not realize nothing is going to change because of the Second Amendment and you can't confiscate people's property.

The real solutions is to find out why we are such a violent country.

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merrily

(45,251 posts)
3. The solution is public funding of elections, so our "representatives"
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 12:32 AM
Jun 2016

at least try to represent the majority of citizens and not simply their largest donors.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
5. And the best way to implement public funding is by electing the candidate with the biggest donors
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 01:03 AM
Jun 2016

Do I have the pragmatic moderate centrist "reasoning" about right?

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