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In reply to the discussion: Fear drives opposition to gun control [View all]4th law of robotics
(6,801 posts)18. All I care about is not having my grandkids blown up by terrorists
Please define a criteria that clearly separates your title line from mine.
The courts are revolving doors in the USA, that's why gun violence is so high..
Someone indeed may have said that. But if you check you'll find it wasn't I.
Fuck the guns, the damn gunners were falling all over themselves and staining their crotches with fear when Dubya was raping the bill of rights, anyone who dared speak against the Patriot act was a fucking traitor. The gunners didn't give a fuck about my pony getting stomped into a red mud puddle why should I care about theirs?
So we should descend in to fascism to stick it to those people who did nothing to prevent us from descending in to fascism?
How safe and happy do you suppose your grandkids will be once our last rights have been stripped away for national security reasons?
You know what may have prevented this? Allowing cops to search homes at random without warning. Having armed checkpoints at every streetcorner complete with metal detectors and no-challenge friskings. Stripping people of their rights entirely because someone else "felt weird" about them and reported them to authorities (no trial necessary). Oh and requiring papers at those checkpoints to prove your need to be traveling through that part of town.
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So the proper response to giving up lots of our rights out of fear 11 years ago
4th law of robotics
Jul 2012
#8
All I care about now is the right not to have my grandkids mown down in cold blood..
Fumesucker
Jul 2012
#13
A truly good mental health care system will cost more than any politician is going to spend..
Fumesucker
Jul 2012
#52
"gloating by some in the pro gun crowd"? Gloating? You actually saw gloating? Where? Links?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#44
No one can look at that web page and find any "gloating" whatsoever. None.
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#54
Nope. Some such as yourself may envision yourself and others as losers. Others may simply want
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#59
You really need to widen your circle. And stop listening so much to Republicans. And stop
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#63
Somebody other than you then. For you, I know that you claimed that DU gun owners are "gloating".
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#68
"It's this sort of juvenile rant that makes the gun-control side such a joke."
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#70
Name a nation on this planet that has a bigger percentage of its citizens incarcerated than the USA.
Fumesucker
Jul 2012
#78
You'd love Chicago. Guns are completely banned. Only 45 shot over Memorial Day
shadowrider
Jul 2012
#27
I'm having trouble imagining how such a situation could come about in a rational society..
Fumesucker
Jul 2012
#38
I believe nonviolence is the only way toward a world where people can live side by side in peace.
Gregorian
Jul 2012
#17
"get rid of the guns and ... ammunition, and gun violence goes away"? Ever hear of Timothy McVeigh?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2012
#10
Thank you. There are a few of us that favor actual solutions over impossible and ineffective
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#37
Nothing can help the dead except possibly to reduce the numbers that will follow them.
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#64
fear and loathing seem to drive a lot of the gun control conversation on both sides
arely staircase
Jul 2012
#22
Nope, irrationally fearful of the unlikely, as are you, apparently. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#39
Unlikely only needs to happen once. As you can't guarantee my personal safety
shadowrider
Jul 2012
#40
I can only give you the exact same guarantee that all of us have. We are going to die.
Egalitarian Thug
Jul 2012
#58