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Tom Yossarian Joad

(19,275 posts) Wed Nov 23, 2022, 12:46 PM Nov 2022

Unless you live in a place where animals pose a threat, the indigenous peoples want their lands back [View all]

or you believe there's going to be a Zombie apocalypse next week... YOU DON'T NEED A GUN!

"Oh! Oh! What about all the evil doers who already have one!?"

You take those guns away from them.

"How you gonna do that? Go door to door and confiscate them?"

Yep.

"Yeah? What if China or Russia invades?"

Red Dawn was fiction.

It is time to revisit the second amendment.

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Unless you live in a place where animals pose a threat, the indigenous peoples want their lands back [View all] Tom Yossarian Joad Nov 2022 OP

Is this an attempt at some new form of poetry? BannonsLiver Nov 2022 #1

You missed the opportunity sarisataka Nov 2022 #2

I saw that earlier. Tom Yossarian Joad Nov 2022 #3

Yes, people seem to be just fine depending on who is carrying. BlackSkimmer Nov 2022 #5

There are some double sarisataka Nov 2022 #7

Or the threads where self-proclaimed tough guys boast that we Dems have guns too! BlackSkimmer Nov 2022 #9

"indigenous peoples want their lands back" DBoon Nov 2022 #4

Most?... MiHale Nov 2022 #8

It is possible there are some lands so degraded that even their original inhabitants dont want them DBoon Nov 2022 #12

K MiHale Nov 2022 #17

door to door confiscation huh? GusBob Nov 2022 #6

Exactly! Runningdawg Nov 2022 #13

Can I bring up my support for pepper spray here just like I did on Maraya1969 Nov 2022 #10

+1000 Tom Yossarian Joad Nov 2022 #15

Go ahead. The only person stopping you is yourself Kaleva Nov 2022 #11

The fact far to few bystanders have stopped mass shootings should tell you Americans are Runningdawg Nov 2022 #14

I don't recall any mass loss of LE life when Australia "outlawed" guns? Tom Yossarian Joad Nov 2022 #16

Is this a joke? Chakaconcarne Nov 2022 #18

No, it's not. I would be comfortable living is a land where gun ownership was regulated. Tom Yossarian Joad Nov 2022 #19

Take the second amendment at its whole word Bobstandard Nov 2022 #20

Well, alrighty then. MarineCombatEngineer Nov 2022 #21

Will you be in the forefront if the people with guns MarineCombatEngineer Nov 2022 #22

I can only imagine your world. Tom Yossarian Joad Nov 2022 #23

You know nothing of my world. MarineCombatEngineer Nov 2022 #25

So do the confiscators have guns? WhiskeyGrinder Nov 2022 #24

I don't understand this OP at all. And the comments don't help much. :-( LAS14 Nov 2022 #26