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In reply to the discussion: Prepare for mass shootings like we've never seen before in the coming year [View all]Throd
(7,208 posts)18. People armed with guns will confiscate the guns.
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951-Riverside
Dec 2015
OP
All I want for Xmas .... Happy holiday gun shopping everyone( gonna guess not a lot of
Person 2713
Dec 2015
#1
The murder rate in the US has been declining for decades in the face of more gun sales
linuxman
Dec 2015
#63
Yeah, sane people run out and buy gunz after every mass shooting. Sane people promote gunz too.
Hoyt
Dec 2015
#39
Since you mention being realistic, who is it that goes out into the public and confiscates guns?
Township75
Dec 2015
#14
Gun humpers infiltrate online forums from politics to needlepoint to push their agenda.
onehandle
Dec 2015
#21
Of course not, 99% of gun prohibitionists are chickenhawks whose 'activism'...
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#30
OK, you must not understand what liberal topics are. I think I get it now. Looking forward.....
Logical
Dec 2015
#47
I've noticed this too, GGJohn you seem to have an alert set up for anything firearm related
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#48
You do use the "come and take em" argument a lot. And yoy go to gun shows and ranges,
Hoyt
Dec 2015
#68
I know, you've never even heard the NRA's "from my cold dead hands.". Pretty much same thing.
Hoyt
Dec 2015
#77
Gunners intimidate? Didn't the OP suggest bans and confiscation of peoples property? Now
Waldorf
Dec 2015
#72
You're right Liz, 308 mass shootings is a small fraction of the 12,166 gun deaths so far this year
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#115
Did you get your degree in telepsychology from the same school the OP did?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2015
#52
lol...there isn't anyone doing any confiscation and it is ludicrous to suggest it...
pipoman
Dec 2015
#64
Mass shootngs are incredibley rare, as are all gun deaths caused by rifles.
Snobblevitch
Dec 2015
#79
I'm curious how many of these checks were for first time buyers vs. existing owners
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#102
This is scary. It means more mass shootings, more cops killing unarmed civilians
ecstatic
Dec 2015
#121
Foreign ?...or domestic psychos ? ....let me guess which one you meant....lol. nt
clarice
Dec 2015
#123
Chill....I didn't say it was funny. And there is no POINT, just a question. nt
clarice
Dec 2015
#131
Some of the bible thumping gun nuts probably think the 2nd Amendment
Zing Zing Zingbah
Dec 2015
#153
That's how they sound whenever they spout off about "da constituuuuuuuuuuuuuuution"
Daniel537
Dec 2015
#154