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In reply to the discussion: You know what's NOT a good bath toy for a 5 year-old? [View all]billh58
(6,655 posts)owners who are exemplary citizens and totally law abiding exist where? What's that you say? Oh, they're in the NRA "statistics" locked room of gun misinformation and fantasies along with the notion that more gunz equals less gun violence.
Does this imaginary 99% include those who leave their guns in the rack above the rear window of their pick 'em up truck? Does the number include those who sell lethal weapons (all perfectly legal you understand) to crazy Uncle Billy Bob, or to cousin Joe Sixpack because he found out that his wife was banging the neighbor? Does this 99% include those "responsible" gun owners who sell dangerous firearms to perfect strangers over the Internet? Yep, these people are all "law abiding," but extremely deadly to the third parties who are the victims of their acts.
I will give you that most American gun owners are responsible with their guns, but that number is no where near 99%. It is those who are NOT responsible that we "grabbers" want to target, and not the responsible American gun owners. Laws seldom affect the law-abiding, but you and the NRA keep dancing around that inconvenient truth.
You, and the rest of your NRA-apologist friends, are using a straw man argument that gun control advocates are targeting ALL American gun owners. That is a lie which is being used by the NRA and the gun manufacturers as a marketing ploy in able to sell more guns -- and you are helping them spread this bullshit. "They're coming for our gunz!" Vote no! Buy more ammo!
But you go ahead and keep telling yourself and your Gungeoneer buddies that your Libertarian stance of more guns equals less crime and a safer society is a "statistical fact." Keep spreading the disinformation that the cure for the health menace caused by the proliferation of guns is even more guns. You keep spewing NRA propaganda in order to assist the Koch Brothers sell more guns, and spread right-wing anti-American ideology.
At least 50% of your imaginary 99% agree with we Democrats and Progressives that uniform and sensible gun regulation is way past due. Your side is losing the "statistical" war Bubba, and the American people are beginning to say: enough!
Now it's time for you to quote some more NRA bullshit, and pretend that you are speaking in the "best interests" of all of us. That's a typical right-wing smoke and mirrors tactic, and it's old and tired.