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baldguy

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1. Giving toddlers & adolescents firearms may be rural culture.

Reply to ProSense (Original post)

Thu May 2, 2013, 12:53 PM

May 2013

Just like many other parts of "gun culture". But it's not part of mainstream American culture, and never has been. Who says it is, is simply lying. We should stop pretending that it is.

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