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Lizzie Poppet

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50. Exactly.

Thu Jan 17, 2013, 05:18 PM

Jan 2013

"Assault weapons" account for less than one percent of all US homicide. They have figured, recently, in some high-profile incidents (with adorable white children victims). Drug-related handgun homicides are literally orders of magnitude more prevalent...but it happens disproportionally to young brown-skinned males. I guess they don't matter...

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Proposed: A complete ban on civilian ownership of Firearms [View all] cthulu2016 Jan 2013 OP

As soon as you teach the cops to jump through a rip in the fabric of time. nt rrneck Jan 2013 #1

And you mention cops... AceWheeler Jan 2013 #37

Actually, cops are civilians as they are not military. ManiacJoe Jan 2013 #39

Because your average every day garden variety gun rrneck Jan 2013 #40

These threads are funny, we can never have to many of them... snooper2 Jan 2013 #2

non-starter BainsBane Jan 2013 #3

I disagree Marrah_G Jan 2013 #4

I think that's overkill Taverner Jan 2013 #5

Stricter regulations and actually enforcing them HappyMe Jan 2013 #6

Only if the ban applies to and is enforced on every person, including criminals and police officers slackmaster Jan 2013 #7

If when a ban goes into effect and you do not turn in your weapons, you become a criminal. RC Jan 2013 #14

I don't own any weapons slackmaster Jan 2013 #45

I'm sure that some might turn in their guns. HappyMe Jan 2013 #51

Are you going to adopt the Japanese system of policing? hack89 Jan 2013 #8

Considered, and dismissed. bluedigger Jan 2013 #9

Disagree. Blue_In_AK Jan 2013 #10

But they might be attacked by Russia! Animal Chin Jan 2013 #26

And Sarah Palin. The Velveteen Ocelot Jan 2013 #31

Ah, Sarah Palin, the joke that refuses to go away. Blue_In_AK Jan 2013 #41

Those who build subs deep in So Amer jungle vote Yes One_Life_To_Give Jan 2013 #11

I think it's useful to have someone pushing for extreme measures on the left Fumesucker Jan 2013 #12

I think extreme anti-gun arguments do less violence to civil rights overall cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #13

Like the 4th Amendment isn't already quaint and non-functional. RC Jan 2013 #17

I think the very idea of civil liberties is a quaint remnant of a bygone era. Fumesucker Jan 2013 #23

Thought provoking paragraph, Fumesucker... TeeYiYi Jan 2013 #42

I fear I'm coming to your second conclusion, myself. Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #48

It's certainly refreshing, at least (nt) Recursion Jan 2013 #16

Japan doesn't have 2.3 billion acres of farmland Recursion Jan 2013 #15

By killing off the predators preferred food, so the cows have more to eat. RC Jan 2013 #20

So you thinks your cows are more valuable than my kids? cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #21

Well, I was thinking more of chickens. Recursion Jan 2013 #22

Extreme Dpm12 Jan 2013 #18

If I DO need to protect myself then cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #27

Handguns should really be what we're talking about Animal Chin Jan 2013 #35

Exactly. Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #50

Nope. Crepuscular Jan 2013 #19

Your OP is what's known in the parlance as "zealotry trolling" Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #24

I think it's also an example of not all trolling being bad Recursion Jan 2013 #25

It is not any kind of trolling cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #32

Really. Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #36

No, it's "you unreasonable people who want to outlaw AR-15s and high magazine clips, hey- Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #34

Your inability to follow simple rules of decency is noted cthulu2016 Jan 2013 #30

Sorry Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #33

Alert results JustABozoOnThisBus Jan 2013 #44

Pfffffft. I'm a "sacred cow"? Warren DeMontague Jan 2013 #46

disagree Kali Jan 2013 #28

Nope, banning firearms will never happen in the US rightsideout Jan 2013 #29

If every gun is civilian hands was picked up and destroyed.. MicaelS Jan 2013 #38

I disagree with a complete ban. Agnosticsherbet Jan 2013 #43

Well obviously impractical here, but let's hypothesize dmallind Jan 2013 #47

Disagree Sissyk Jan 2013 #49

Impossible under the Bill of Rights. longship Jan 2013 #52

Have you ever had to shoot a six foot rattlesnake Ilsa Jan 2013 #53

How about devoting this energy toward something possible, like fighting poverty Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #54