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41. Today was my turning point as well. I will dedicate my life to ending the gun-fetish

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Fri Dec 14, 2012, 10:39 PM

Dec 2012

enabled slaughter of our children, neighbors, brothers and sisters. Enough is enough. Today it begins to end.

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No amount of legislation is going to cure our sick society. For fuck sake. (edited) [View all] NYC_SKP Dec 2012 OP

There are plenty of societies with far fewer guns than us and no death camps Fumesucker Dec 2012 #1

More guns, fewer guns, it's a distraction. Our society is very sick. NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #34

Indeed our society if very sick...disparity between the top 1% and the rest KoKo Dec 2012 #53

I will never give up Glitterati Dec 2012 #2

Yes, we have to keep guns out of the HappyMe Dec 2012 #12

Precisely! Thank you! NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #22

No we don't. Glitterati Dec 2012 #24

Yes. Plus we already know that sociopaths murder people anneboleyn Dec 2012 #38

completely circular. you may as well say "we already know people who murder people murder people" HiPointDem Dec 2012 #61

that's easy to say, but it *will* happen again regardless. HiPointDem Dec 2012 #60

Today was my turning point as well. I will dedicate my life to ending the gun-fetish Care Acutely Dec 2012 #41

Completely, absolutely, 100% fucking wrong. Zoeisright Dec 2012 #3

Amen. OP claims that an abundance of laws="death camps?" anneboleyn Dec 2012 #25

You mean the right to slaughter as many people as possible with an assault weapon Arugula Latte Dec 2012 #4

You are right about that. HappyMe Dec 2012 #5

Screw WHY Glitterati Dec 2012 #27

So background checks= death camps? nadinbrzezinski Dec 2012 #6

Horseshit. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #7

Shit, I could not say that better. Bonobo Dec 2012 #14

now "death camps" is a "throwaway line." rather offensive anneboleyn Dec 2012 #46

Don't be ridiculous. Fastening on the extremes of distress? Please. aquart Dec 2012 #8

+1 nt rDigital Dec 2012 #9

Look you found someone to agree with "gun control enabled the holocaust." Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #15

We can solve problems with legislation: death camp talk is throwing up our hands and giving up alcibiades_mystery Dec 2012 #10

"Sure, some well crafted legislation can help" ellisonz Dec 2012 #11

The sick in the society are those who claim we can do nothing over the bodies of twenty murdered Agnosticsherbet Dec 2012 #13

"death camp talk"? backscatter712 Dec 2012 #16

How about an actual rebuttal? NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #17

And help you stir the shit? backscatter712 Dec 2012 #20

The US government Justin_Beach Dec 2012 #18

"a civilian army, even one armed with automatic assault weapons, simply would not have a chance." oldhippie Dec 2012 #26

Again, if the US used it's full weight Justin_Beach Dec 2012 #35

actually, if the world looked the other way, there probably wouldn't have been a 'revolution,' HiPointDem Dec 2012 #62

Unrec, Unrec, Unrec! Where is the damn Unrec button? Laurian Dec 2012 #19

The best I've got is Downvoting Roman. n/t backscatter712 Dec 2012 #21

No, we can't legislate these incidents away. And the 2nd amendment is safe. But SOMETHING can be Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #23

I'm all for firming up the background checks, closing loopholes, enforcing the laws we have.... NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #28

I just read a Washington Post article by Ezra Klein that says just the opposite. Honeycombe8 Dec 2012 #44

So you say something remarkably stupid and then snark when you're called on it? Fumesucker Dec 2012 #29

What part of "our society is sick" isn't clear? NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #31

You've been around DU long enough to know the reaction that line will get Fumesucker Dec 2012 #36

When we killed kids in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Syria, Africa...with our "War on Terror" KoKo Dec 2012 #55

I think you are sort of right. Whisp Dec 2012 #30

Thanks. (nt) NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #33

The real "crazy talk" is the interpretation of the 2nd amendment by the gun enthusiasts. nt kelliekat44 Dec 2012 #32

Oh you took out the death camp reference. Warren Stupidity Dec 2012 #37

Ahhh...I didn't know. You are a Libertarian. KoKo Dec 2012 #39

Edited to reply to you "Skip"...much as I respect you...wrong on this. KoKo Dec 2012 #40

Got it, thanks, see my reply below. NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #43

Oh now really.... NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #42

Okay...if I got you wrong..you say you support "Second Amendment"...so you wouldn't KoKo Dec 2012 #47

You would not give up your "automatic, repeating weapons" and go back to One Shot per Kill? KoKo Dec 2012 #48

I don't hang out with a gun crowd, it's just that I take a long view. NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #49

Oh...I grew up in a hunting culture...but they didn't use Automatic Assault Weapons of KoKo Dec 2012 #52

People are quick to give up their freedom for safety, but they'll never be truly safe. DaniDubois Dec 2012 #45

No we can never be truly safe...but, when there's an imbalance in Soicial Structure KoKo Dec 2012 #50

+100. nt Skip Intro Dec 2012 #51

No body in the USA needs to have a FUCKING AR15- SKS- or high capacity magazines! rustydog Dec 2012 #54

Agree...but, somehow this message doesn't get through to those who KoKo Dec 2012 #58

Death camps was a throwaway line? RetroLounge Dec 2012 #56

Maybe we should take George Carlin's idea and convert states into prison farms. Initech Dec 2012 #57

We are well on the way. NYC_SKP Dec 2012 #59

We regulate each and every day those things which are produce that harm people aandegoons Dec 2012 #63

So we should give up? quaker bill Dec 2012 #64