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LanternWaste

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14. A stern countenance often does little more than to simply enable...

Reply to ryan_cats (Reply #12)

Tue Oct 6, 2015, 12:26 PM

Oct 2015

A stern countenance often does little more than to simply enable more needless deaths (although it may provide one with the pretense of righteousness), regardless of the irrelevancy of whether one believes that to be heartless or not.

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Since the NRA is stigmatizing mental illness to distract from gun safety, here's John Oliver's take. [View all] backscatter712 Oct 2015 OP

KnR nt Mnemosyne Oct 2015 #1

Stigmatizing is done on both sides NobodyHere Oct 2015 #2

Gun fetishists ought to be stigmatized. hunter Oct 2015 #4

Control fetishists ought to be stigmatized. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #6

Thank you libodem Oct 2015 #3

Thank You! sub.theory Oct 2015 #5

A handful of dangerous people aren't the problem but 80 million good people are? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #7

Arguing from the other side then ryan_cats Oct 2015 #8

Arguing what? backscatter712 Oct 2015 #9

Well... ryan_cats Oct 2015 #10

Oh, you're the most easily attacked... backscatter712 Oct 2015 #11

Your laughing ryan_cats Oct 2015 #12

The rest of it aside, the fact is it is not the mentally ill who are doing all the shooting so focus Bluenorthwest Oct 2015 #13

A stern countenance often does little more than to simply enable... LanternWaste Oct 2015 #14

I agree 100% ryan_cats Oct 2015 #15

See the problem is mental illness but not the mental illnesses we are focusing on kydo Oct 2015 #16