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In reply to the discussion: Where do you personally stand on what guns, if any, to ban or allow? [View all]Egnever
(21,506 posts)212. There a huge difference between guns and alcohol.
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Where do you personally stand on what guns, if any, to ban or allow? [View all]
Downtown Hound
Feb 2018
OP
Ban every single gun regardless of what type it is (handgun, rifle, semi-automatic, assault weapon).
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#1
Exceptionally tough gun restrictions and bans have worked well in Australia and Japan.
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#7
The vast majority of decent Americans who value lives over guns. You need to wake up.
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#37
Decent Americans want a complete prohibition on the private ownership of firearms?
Marengo
Feb 2018
#46
Interesting. So, what about members here on DU who dont want complete prohibition? Are they...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#51
If my XBOX radiated cancer to everyone around me, I would give up my game
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#102
What about folks here at DU who still as of now possess firearms, are they indecent?
Marengo
Feb 2018
#104
Not the point. I wasnt the one who said they werent, the person who you argued with
Eliot Rosewater
Feb 2018
#106
Im now asking you, and looking for a simple yes or no. Cant possibly be difficult.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#108
Nope, not interested in your diversion attempt. Try again. By the way, I have asked you...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#111
They can learn to give up their addiction much like people who quit drinking or smoking.
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#67
You didnt answer my question. Are they, or are they not, decent Americans? This is a close-ended
Marengo
Feb 2018
#70
I don't know. Do they value their guns more than people's lives like most gundamentalists?
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#73
Stop dancing around the question and answer as I have requested. Yes or no please.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#75
Nope. Yes or no, are DUers who dont support a complete prohibition of private firearms ownership
Marengo
Feb 2018
#82
Anybody who chooses more kids being shot in school over the good of society is not a decent American
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#84
Does anyone who has not given up their firearms post MSD care more about their guns than kids?
Marengo
Feb 2018
#94
What is with your obsession with guns? Why do guns mean more to you than the lives of kids?
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#97
Why are you evading? You hate to be seen as a Republican schill and gun lover?
LonePirate
Feb 2018
#105
Yes or no please. Do DU members who have not given up their firearms post MSD care more about...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#107
LOL! Ok, well put it on record that you regard anyone on DU who currently owns a firearm...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#136
Yep, 7. Even with the previous 20 you claim, thats a rookie number. Keep trying. Hmmmm, one
Marengo
Feb 2018
#90
Its a despicable argument to be certain, and fortunately in the minority here, at least for now.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#116
Jesus, Mary and Elvis, you can't help yourself, can you? Here you are, right back on the SCRIPT!
Squinch
Feb 2018
#68
Oh, honey, knock yourself out with the counting, but at least be accurate. I've pointed
Squinch
Feb 2018
#74
6. Perhaps you can repeat more than once per response since apparently you have nothing else.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#77
I don't know how to answer that...after the multiple shootings of school kids...Las Vegas, think
Demsrule86
Feb 2018
#120
It isnt a dichotomous choice as some are demanding it be reduced to. One doesnt deserve to be...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#135
no i dont think so! Even our local Dem Party wants to have a 2nd Amenment Group and..
samnsara
Feb 2018
#66
Great so we can look forward to more needless deaths...well guns are the issue for me now...won't
Demsrule86
Feb 2018
#122
The majority want a complete prohibition on the private ownership of firearms? You may not have...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#48
Absolutely, myself included. Im hopeful that its already starting, st least at the state level.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#59
I don't think your statistics include all the weapons of war our government sells
scarytomcat
Feb 2018
#170
I like this approach. Also, my priority is to make it harder for shooters to get into schools.
ooky
Feb 2018
#211
Ban all semi-automatics, both rifles and handguns. Registration of ALL guns. Applications
highplainsdem
Feb 2018
#11
I'm starting to agree that the reason the police didn't go in was because the shooter had...
johnpowdy
Feb 2018
#25
well you know, this is where we disagree...I won't see or support banning all guns same as
beachbum bob
Feb 2018
#41
some people live miles and miles from the nearest law enforcement office.
StTimofEdenRoc
Feb 2018
#153
How often are they actually used in crime though? Begs the question, what about 30-06? One of...
Marengo
Feb 2018
#198
30-06 is substantially lethal, and .308 is both a current military caliber and popular hunting round
Marengo
Feb 2018
#202
Carlos Hathcock used a Winchester Model 70 in 30-06 for many of his kills during the VN war.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#215
Reality based solutions dont include subjective criteria such as fetishization and so forth.
Marengo
Feb 2018
#221
"Anyone who fails to comply will be arrested" Assuming the govt knew who owns them..which they don't
EX500rider
Feb 2018
#62
Ban any gun that allows a detachable magazine/clip/cartridge. Make illegal to own or sell one.
boston bean
Feb 2018
#38
Even though restricting a specific weapon is clearly appropriate, it's easy access that bothers me.
Sancho
Feb 2018
#47
Any military type and similar automatic weapons which can quickly kill a lot of people at any range
Meowmee
Feb 2018
#60
i love my handguns. Im a responsible gun owner. Ive taken safety classes and even competed (badly).
samnsara
Feb 2018
#64
I would not ban antique guns or collectors guns. I would not ban hunting guns like shot guns or .22
wasupaloopa
Feb 2018
#80
I would ban all centerfire pistol ammunition except military, police, licensed armed guard uses.
FarCenter
Feb 2018
#83
yeah that will go over big..you realize criminals will keep their guns right?
EX500rider
Feb 2018
#142
I was responding to a post about dis-arming cops....sounds like a bad idea to me.
EX500rider
Feb 2018
#163
I don't have a problem with someone having a hunting rifle and maybe something for HOME defense if
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#133
Oh, give me a break -- most burglaries mean you aren't at home. That's very small odds, and yes if
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#145
A quarter million violent burglaries a year may sound like a small number to you.
EX500rider
Feb 2018
#146
If it were 200, you'd still arm up and tote. That is just a rationale. The vast majority of people
Hoyt
Feb 2018
#147
Fair enough. Just wondering as someone who lost a family member to a shooter who had no
CTyankee
Feb 2018
#174
See, the thing is that statistics don't mean shit to people who have a family member blown away.
CTyankee
Feb 2018
#181
Portable death machines freak me out, just like they should freak out ANY sane person. nt
Binkie The Clown
Feb 2018
#183
Every gun requires a license renewed yearly and requiring a background check.
meadowlander
Feb 2018
#193