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Ghost in the Machine

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64. How about if we make Authoritarians uncool, just like the people who want to stick their noses in

Sat Oct 10, 2015, 08:16 PM

Oct 2015

other people's bedrooms and worry about *who* they are sleeping with, or the snoops at NSA with all of their warrantless wire-tapping??

What happens in my bedroom is between me, her, the rubber chicken, the stuffed duck and the trombone playing midget on the unicycle! What's locked in a safe in my closet is legal, and nobody's business but mine.

Sorry, but you will NEVER "make gun ownership uncool." Millions of people, especially in poor rural areas, depend on guns to help keep food on the table to feed their families. They couldn't care less if some anonymous internet poster thinks they're "uncool" or not. They're just trying to survive.

I'm all for enhanced sentencing for ANY crime committed with a gun. Why punish ALL gun owners when it has been proven time after time after time that less than 1/10th of 1%** of gun owners commit crimes with their guns... and many of them are already convicted felons who aren't supposed to have guns anyways and are repeat offenders??

** I might be off a little with the number there, just going from memory which, unfortunately, fails me sometimes. Please feel free to correct it if I am wrong...

Peace,

Ghost

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What If We Made Gun Culture Uncool Like We Did Cigarettes? [View all] onehandle Oct 2015 OP

NRA: America's Isis stone space Oct 2015 #1

Words mean things; and your post indicates you have very little experience jonno99 Oct 2015 #6

Let's see 'words mean things'. Now where have i heard that before? Kingofalldems Oct 2015 #14

He must have trained you well. He's not my go to guy... nt jonno99 Oct 2015 #16

Are you suggesting that they don't? TipTok Oct 2015 #19

Umm, scores of successful writers? Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #35

Oops. Kingofalldems Oct 2015 #37

Ooops. Hundreds of writers linked to Rush! Wow, who'd thunk? Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #39

Do you think ISIS can be beaten by wearing buttons? Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #20

The NRA is killing our children. Somebody has to stand up to them. stone space Oct 2015 #25

So, again, it's just hyperbole. Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2015 #26

So, go to their HQ and stand up to them. GGJohn Oct 2015 #59

Your thread's a little late. branford Oct 2015 #2

Yeah, been goin' on for years. Great results. yeah. like a champ. Eleanors38 Oct 2015 #38

Let me know when the White House grounds become a "gun free zone". Then we can jonno99 Oct 2015 #3

or another way to say it, when gun owners stop murdering people by the thousands nt msongs Oct 2015 #4

If we could somehow, right now, make every single gun disappear from the face of the earth, there jonno99 Oct 2015 #8

Shame on you for parroting NRA Talking Points! stone space Oct 2015 #9

I really don't give two shakes of a lambs tail about the NRA, but to equate them jonno99 Oct 2015 #11

Yet you parrot the NRA's talking points. stone space Oct 2015 #13

I'm sorry you feel that way, but it doesn't change anything I've stated. Your button is a jonno99 Oct 2015 #17

In your view, anything not anti-gun, even slightly, is an nra talking point. beevul Oct 2015 #28

The specific NRA Talking Point in question here. stone space Oct 2015 #29

I said nothing about the nra. I said something about you. beevul Oct 2015 #30

Do try to keep up. Personal attacks just make you look foolish. (nt) stone space Oct 2015 #33

It wasn't a personal attack, it was an accurate observation. beevul Oct 2015 #34

We are talking about a very specific NRA Talking Pont here. stone space Oct 2015 #36

YOU are talking about some nra talking point. I am not. beevul Oct 2015 #40

Do you always attack folks personally at first sight? (nt) stone space Oct 2015 #42

See post 34. N/T beevul Oct 2015 #43

You can't defend this NRA Talking Point with a personal attack. (nt) stone space Oct 2015 #45

See post 34. N/T beevul Oct 2015 #47

Personal attack. Nothing more. stone space Oct 2015 #48

See post 34. N/T beevul Oct 2015 #51

In defence of an indefensible NRA Talking Point. stone space Oct 2015 #53

See post 34. N/T beevul Oct 2015 #54

Personal attacks just make you look foolish. GGJohn Oct 2015 #61

No, I'm not alone in this. The White House denounced it, as well. stone space Oct 2015 #55

We would have to also target gang culture Puzzledtraveller Oct 2015 #5

Yes, and don't give up so easily on this idea dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #18

I think it could happen Puzzledtraveller Oct 2015 #21

It's up to us... dreamnightwind Oct 2015 #24

I'm not so sure. qwlauren35 Oct 2015 #63

The Graphic Is Deceptive. I know some will not think so, But... NonMetro Oct 2015 #7

Only cigarettes can't protect lives. ileus Oct 2015 #10

In the aggregate, guns don't protect lives, but possibly some fragile egos. Hoyt Oct 2015 #23

The CDC disagrees. N/T beevul Oct 2015 #27

You need to look up meaning of "aggregate." Fact is, your precious gunz take more innocent lives Hoyt Oct 2015 #31

You're still wrong hoyt. beevul Oct 2015 #32

Give me a break, Zimmerman is considered a "defensive use." Hoyt Oct 2015 #44

Thats the best you can do? beevul Oct 2015 #46

seems there'd be a lot of butt hurt, KG Oct 2015 #12

True, but the pro controllers/banners should be used to it by now. n/t oneshooter Oct 2015 #60

Bring out the fainting couch! nt onehandle Oct 2015 #65

Why? GGJohn Oct 2015 #66

Guns are as uncool as cigarettes. Dont call me Shirley Oct 2015 #15

A necessary part of the cultural change n/t Matrosov Oct 2015 #22

I will vote to recall any politician who uses public money to fund this anti-gun campaign LittleBlue Oct 2015 #41

Wow! That's pretty extreme! stone space Oct 2015 #49

Because it is a political position and against the constitution LittleBlue Oct 2015 #50

Your interlocutor wishes to ban all guns. beevul Oct 2015 #52

Cool story, bro. nt onehandle Oct 2015 #57

Lmfao who here is living in a fairy tale? LittleBlue Oct 2015 #58

Gun culture is about Turbineguy Oct 2015 #56

The reality is that there is not just one culture in the country. Yo_Mama Oct 2015 #62

How about if we make Authoritarians uncool, just like the people who want to stick their noses in Ghost in the Machine Oct 2015 #64

Right idea - but you can't "make it" happen quaker bill Oct 2015 #67

Then all the cool kids who smoke will have guns making the non smoking, non gun toting kids uncool YabaDabaNoDinoNo Oct 2015 #68