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ellisonz

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70. lol

Wed Jul 25, 2012, 03:00 AM

Jul 2012

1. Still beating that we can't define an "assault weapon" horse. I kind of like the Canadian system in this regard, stop playing your game and just ban specific guns.

2. Your argument about magazines is wandering and illogical. What's so hard about agreeing that no one needs 30 rounds to defend themselves, hunt or sport shoot?

3. You're way to obsessed with the gun culture to even understand something as simple as: COMPARABLE COUNTRIES DON'T HAVE 10,000 DEAD EVERY YEAR AND ANNUAL MASS SHOOTINGS!!!

Why?

Because they have sensible, effective gun control to varying degrees depending on what they think is logical. Why are we incapable of making that leap forward? I don't know for sure, but I'd bank it has a lot to do with the NRA/Republican/fascist jackasses who rob us blind and make us suffer.

- for your failed rant. Also, the most sensible regulation we don't have that we should have is mandatory psychological review for ownership. Shoot me.

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Gun violence turns GD into a really sick place. [View all] WilliamPitt Jul 2012 OP

Post removed Post removed Jul 2012 #1

Send in the clowns... onehandle Jul 2012 #5

+1 Lex Jul 2012 #14

The orcs have boiled up out of their pit. hifiguy Jul 2012 #22

I am still more interested in Baingate Xyzse Jul 2012 #2

These massacres make DU resemble Free Republic. myrna minx Jul 2012 #3

+1 HuckleB Jul 2012 #118

The problem is the Gungeon trolls who refuse... ellisonz Jul 2012 #4

+1 xchrom Jul 2012 #6

Yes, because our disagreement on one issue makes us bannable. Indydem Jul 2012 #7

Seems like all sides in this issue are saying your last sentence. People react to how they are being patrice Jul 2012 #9

I don't know your exact positions. ellisonz Jul 2012 #11

Your use of the term "they" here implies that you know what all those DU members think. L0oniX Jul 2012 #40

+1 Go Vols Jul 2012 #126

Ahem. *You* are not a mindreader. How very Gellerish of you friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #65

And all the things you discussed in your first paragraph... krispos42 Jul 2012 #69

lol ellisonz Jul 2012 #70

So you're wimping out? krispos42 Jul 2012 #85

This message was self-deleted by its author Hassin Bin Sober Jul 2012 #101

rofl ellisonz Jul 2012 #105

the super-sized magazines are krispos42 Jul 2012 #133

Your point #2 begs the question. And ISTR there is no Department of Needs... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #123

There are MANY "disagreement on one issue" issues that will get you banned here. Lex Jul 2012 #12

Parroting mantras of Republican-run .orgs is not "disagreement". Tejas Jul 2012 #34

Are you still maintaining that gun control is a REPUBLICAN position? Hugabear Jul 2012 #53

What part of Brady/VPC run by Repubs confuses you?. Tejas Jul 2012 #54

Pretty much and those that buy into it gopiscrap Jul 2012 #104

The two responses above me prove the OP is right Hugabear Jul 2012 #117

+2 Chorophyll Jul 2012 #10

Funny how GD is awash in OPs saying we should ban guns 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #19

*le sight* ellisonz Jul 2012 #21

This being the internet 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #23

Well this is a site for Democrats... ellisonz Jul 2012 #24

You corrected me on grammar 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #25

"are you now saying the grammar discriminates based on politics?" ellisonz Jul 2012 #28

The "Democrat Party" 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #29

I never implied you were a gun nut... ellisonz Jul 2012 #31

I do permatex Jul 2012 #89

By proxy yes. nt Remmah2 Jul 2012 #97

...unless they are Democrats that own a gun. L0oniX Jul 2012 #41

Bullshit. n/t ellisonz Jul 2012 #47

Don't you have a gynocracy to bitch about, O oppressed one? Scootaloo Jul 2012 #79

Didn't you have some nonsensical ad-hominem to "contribute" . . . 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #103

and on the other side of it... Maine-ah Jul 2012 #32

No, the Aurora murderer would not have obtained those guns if we had decent regulation of guns...eom Kolesar Jul 2012 #38

it certainly could have been made more difficult. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #80

I couldn't agree with you more. ellisonz Jul 2012 #46

Shut up and sit down. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #94

The other problem is that all DU gun owners are being attacked as if they are Repukes... L0oniX Jul 2012 #37

I haven't really seen such posts... ellisonz Jul 2012 #45

THere have been hundreds of such posts. I was here all weekend and I have never Mojorabbit Jul 2012 #63

If you can't understand why people are upset... ellisonz Jul 2012 #64

Fastest backpedal I've ever seen permatex Jul 2012 #90

Unbelievable. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #98

gun owners are not being attacked. gun nuts are being attacked. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #81

That is not true at all, they most certainly were being attacked this weekend. nt Mojorabbit Jul 2012 #116

if it was true it was rare. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #124

No it was towards gun owners not nuts Mojorabbit Jul 2012 #131

then you are going to have to provide links Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #132

Yup. obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #87

What hubris on your part ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #48

The Gungeon exists for a reason. ellisonz Jul 2012 #52

You are dancing ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #56

By disrupting every thread regular DUers have on the event... ellisonz Jul 2012 #58

There is a pretty substantial number of people on DU that support RKBA badtoworse Jul 2012 #59

I'm sorry "support RKBA" ellisonz Jul 2012 #61

The NRA has 4 million members badtoworse Jul 2012 #77

So posting things you disagree with is disruptive? ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #60

Posting extremist positions ad nauseum after a tragic event is disuptive. ellisonz Jul 2012 #62

More name calling and then resignation on your part ProgressiveProfessor Jul 2012 #67

More like: Disagreeing with the Great And Powerful Guardian of Progressivism is disruptive friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #68

Bingo. They want to delegitimize dissenting opinions, pure and simple. friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #66

I meant to ask, what's a regular DUer? badtoworse Jul 2012 #78

"Is it only DUers that agree with you?" Apparently... friendly_iconoclast Jul 2012 #120

Yep. Kingofalldems Jul 2012 #51

Refuse to permit the vast... how? NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #71

Mr. "gun rights absolutist" ellisonz Jul 2012 #72

I see you are still laboring under the impression Union Scribe Jul 2012 #73

And I thought you had left us... ellisonz Jul 2012 #74

It's nice to have fans. Union Scribe Jul 2012 #75

Notice he didn't answer the question? permatex Jul 2012 #92

I like you guys thing remembering what you read on DU is "creepy." ellisonz Jul 2012 #108

Okay, I brushed up on it. NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #109

Extremists/wing-nuts are not welcome. n/t ellisonz Jul 2012 #111

That describes neither myself nor any of the other pro-gun regulars here. n/t NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #112

Actually, it describes quite a number of "pro-gun regulars." n/t ellisonz Jul 2012 #113

Then alert on our posts. NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #114

"I still don't understand how you think that takes place." ellisonz Jul 2012 #115

So when and where are we allowed to post? NewMoonTherian Jul 2012 #121

Absolutely agreed! RW talking points seeping from that cesspool. morningfog Jul 2012 #100

i agree krhines Jul 2012 #128

Yeah, it's interesting to see long-standing DU-ers say that the government is going to take our guns patrice Jul 2012 #8

I'm still shocked at how many pro-violence people are here gregoire Jul 2012 #13

So you can point out posters that support what the shooter did? Really? nt hack89 Jul 2012 #15

posts like the one you respond to are what makes this forum a sewer when shit like this happens. dionysus Jul 2012 #17

When they advocate the sale of high-capacity magazines... ellisonz Jul 2012 #30

i don't obsess about the gungeon like you do, so maybe there are fools who would like to own dionysus Jul 2012 #33

When they want to oppose regulation... ellisonz Jul 2012 #36

bye. don't write. dionysus Jul 2012 #43

Why would you want to ban those extended mags. permatex Jul 2012 #99

What you consider reasonable led to this tragedy... ellisonz Jul 2012 #106

... pintobean Jul 2012 #55

Posts like this show how little many know about firearms. MercutioATC Jul 2012 #83

Posts like this show how little many know about public policy. ellisonz Jul 2012 #107

If it's a "sewer like shit", why have you continued to participate here since 2001? Kolesar Jul 2012 #39

gun tragedies always turn DU into a sewer, from both angles. dionysus Jul 2012 #44

the gungeon is the sewer, and the vast majority here avoid it like the plague. Warren Stupidity Jul 2012 #82

+1,000,000 Missycim Jul 2012 #102

Source? 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #20

I've been thinking that I've become an outdated liberal sasha031 Jul 2012 #26

Strawmen make easy targets for rage and shock, don't they? Lizzie Poppet Jul 2012 #57

This is why I liked the "hide thread" option sakabatou Jul 2012 #16

The topic is of an important instinctual kind of behavior. Gregorian Jul 2012 #18

Mass murder and gun violence are an accepted, integral part of this culture, and have been for Zorra Jul 2012 #27

GD = Gun Discussion (Forum) L0oniX Jul 2012 #35

Tell that to the anti-2A people who post outside the forum. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #95

Yup. HappyMe Jul 2012 #42

This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Jul 2012 #86

This message was self-deleted by its author bupkus Jul 2012 #88

And so, you start a gun thread in GD JustABozoOnThisBus Jul 2012 #49

No different than people saying we should let torturers go and "look ahead" just1voice Jul 2012 #50

Can't the Moderators start transferring the gun avebury Jul 2012 #76

Sacred cows go bad very quickly sometimes. Rather smelly, too... LanternWaste Jul 2012 #84

Sounds like someone has a problem with the Democratic process. Remmah2 Jul 2012 #91

Derp WilliamPitt Jul 2012 #93

gunshit crazy spanone Jul 2012 #96

A GD gun thread complaining about GD gun threads? HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #110

Uh, durr WilliamPitt Jul 2012 #125

People with guns kill people. MNBrewer Jul 2012 #119

I have hardly ever trash threads, that is, until this week. Javaman Jul 2012 #122

I have been avoiding any thread on the subject..... Uben Jul 2012 #127

It's only 'sick' if you disagree with some of the threads. randome Jul 2012 #129

Sick as In Kick Ass? otohara Jul 2012 #130