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braddy

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23. We need to find out what we have done wrong with people, when I was a kid we had knives in school,

Mon Dec 30, 2019, 10:52 AM

Dec 2019

guns in our cars, kids in the gun club carrying their guns in, as little children we could walk down the street with our guns as we took it somewhere. focusing on metal tools is to keep us from examining what we have done to destroy our families, marriages, values and communities.

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Stabbings vs Shootings, Warning: about killing and death! [View all] Stuart G Dec 2019 OP

The bad guys will come to love the 3D printer. braddy Dec 2019 #1

Unfortunately this is true, the genie is out of the bottle in so many ways Amishman Dec 2019 #22

We need to find out what we have done wrong with people, when I was a kid we had knives in school, braddy Dec 2019 #23

Income inequality and an ever more stressful modern life Amishman Dec 2019 #24

That is just repeating the same old same old that created this in the first place, my very point. braddy Dec 2019 #27

Nah, Drahthaardogs Dec 2019 #38

Have you priced 3D printers? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #33

Like everything it will become cheap and common and gangs and criminals will make their own or buy braddy Dec 2019 #37

Theoretically, sure. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #39

3D printers are hardly fantasy while overthrowing the Constitution and removing 450 million current braddy Dec 2019 #40

What politician with power is proposing that fantasy as policy? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #44

Let's throw some good mental health practices into the mix too. A lot of people can be abqtommy Dec 2019 #2

I totally agree. Good mental health practices, as well as free availability to all everywhere, Stuart G Dec 2019 #3

Why not outlaw knives, too? aikoaiko Dec 2019 #4

The purpose of a knife is not to kill, the only purpose of a gun is "to kill." (that is why) Stuart G Dec 2019 #5

Guns are used for other purposes besides killing. aikoaiko Dec 2019 #7

My grandmother used her butcher knife to slice the throats of chickens Sonny Mirviss Dec 2019 #16

Countless knives and edged weapons are designed only to kill, while countless others are like guns braddy Dec 2019 #14

My Fairbairn-Sykes is the first I reach for when cutting veggies in the kitchen... Marengo Dec 2019 #19

Correct malaise Dec 2019 #21

And the other major difference: SCantiGOP Dec 2019 #6

I used to know a guy who was a good knife thrower. Archae Dec 2019 #9

I was thinking stabby stabby SCantiGOP Dec 2019 #17

Happens all the time in the movies and on the teevee, right? maxsolomon Dec 2019 #32

I wondered which gunner would carry the water against the OP's righteous point. Hoyt Dec 2019 #8

and good evening to you, too, Hoyt. aikoaiko Dec 2019 #12

So fun! maxsolomon Dec 2019 #35

Not at all. To quote you... aikoaiko Dec 2019 #41

I once fought off a guy with a knife and have a wicked scar on my arm from that. hunter Dec 2019 #28

Why not? hack89 Dec 2019 #10

If you were to ask me, I would use the model of licensing cars and driver's licenses. Midnight Writer Dec 2019 #11

Hard to conceal a car hack89 Dec 2019 #13

Millions of Americans drive drunk everyday. Should that not be regulated, folk will do it anyway? Midnight Writer Dec 2019 #15

People don't deliberately chose to break the law and drive drunk hack89 Dec 2019 #25

How does requiring a license hurt that problem? herding cats Dec 2019 #18

A license means nothing to a felon, mass shooter or someone that is suicidal hack89 Dec 2019 #26

Great! Let's make cars and guns equal. needledriver Jan 2020 #50

Guns are never going to be outlawed in this country, dware Dec 2019 #20

Slavery is never going to be outlawed in this country. hunter Dec 2019 #29

It's been 40 years since the "Cincinnati Revolution" maxsolomon Dec 2019 #31

The rejection of drunk driving was quicker than that, less than a decade. hunter Dec 2019 #43

Guns aren't Drunk Driving. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #45

As I've said, the second amendment is bullshit, just as constitutional slavery was bullshit. hunter Dec 2019 #46

You think it will happen quickly; I don't. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #47

Most U.S. Americans don't care enough about guns to bother owning one. hunter Dec 2019 #48

Ok, whatever, dware Dec 2019 #42

REGULATE firearms WELL. It's right there in the Amendment. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #30

A lot of Sheriffs n sellers keep refusing to enforce firearm regulations though dustyscamp Dec 2019 #34

Temporary problem. maxsolomon Dec 2019 #36

You are absolutely right. needledriver Jan 2020 #49