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kelliekat44

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Thu Aug 27, 2015, 08:37 AM Aug 2015

(CNN just now) If, as many on the right suggest that we can never stop gun killings and no law on the books will [View all]

or would have prevented the mass shootings that have and continue to take place, then why do these same folks favor endless wars in the name of religion? The same thing is true about war. If religious nuts can never be fully erased from society and if people have a right to their own religion and it has been going on all through out history, why do we spend so many lives and resources on fighting wars and taking more lives?

It just strikes me that the arguments in favor of not being able to do anything about guns fits perfectly with the argument that there is nothing you can do about religion. Just listen to the arguments from the NRA and gun lovers and substitute war or fighting ISIS or "Islamic terrorist or extremists."

Take away guns and take away religion ...

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