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55. No, I don't want them to. But you're rather naive to think they wouldn't.

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #54)

Tue Dec 23, 2014, 06:53 AM

Dec 2014

And this has nothing to do with justifying gun control. It has to do with debunking a poor pro-gun argument.

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