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In reply to the discussion: Fuck the NRA .... 50 dead. [View all]elmac
(4,642 posts)20. We need to bring back the ban on assault rifles
and large capacity magazines.
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If it is not one, why do so many gun losers slobber over the damn things. Ban em and gun profiteers.
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#104
No one slobbers like a gun nut. I have a few guitars -- I can leave them at home and I don't obsess
Hoyt
Jun 2016
#114
So the obivious problem is all the people who didn't murder anyone on saturday
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#182
How come the Homicide rate is higher in cities/states with the strictest gun control laws?
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#189
A bus....should we ban buses? The weapon didn't kill anyone. The man pulling the trigger did
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#174
Except he can't pick up the car and swing it around and kill that many people that quickly.
Laha
Jun 2016
#110
If guns were only made for killing, millions of guns have failed to do their job
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#112
Oh yeah...the founders meant for the public to be disarmed and the government
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#215
The Japanese kill themselves at higher rates than in the U.S. What makes it "easy" for them?
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#71
Well.. I didn't find another way to kill myself that would have been that easy and available.
Laha
Jun 2016
#116
If that were true, there wouldn't be 25,000 suicides each year where a gun wasn't used
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#183
Yeah, I know nothing about depression. I'll make sure my psychiatrist updates his diagnosis
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#216
Australia enacted one of the largest gun reforms ever nearly 2 decades ago — and gun deaths plummete
Botany
Jun 2016
#26
Tell them I'm in the bathroom. He's coming. I'm gonna die': Terrified last text son sent to his mom
Botany
Jun 2016
#67
Clearly the fault of violent video games and not enough good guys with guns. Aka "buy more guns!"
MillennialDem
Jun 2016
#16
Not sure what your point is, or if you have one other than that simple statement of fact.
Martin Eden
Jun 2016
#23
Your premise was that laws would do no good. Now you argue the laws don;t exists
Gore1FL
Jun 2016
#103
No. I asked what law would have saved the lives of those who were murdered
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#107
You asked "Do you think a guy who murdered 50 people would care about those laws?"
Gore1FL
Jun 2016
#108
Kid at VPI used 2 pistols with 12 rounds each and multiple mags. Killed 23 people
Press Virginia
Jun 2016
#176
Not a fan of you but I agree, gun bans do nothing except prevent honest people from having guns. nt
Logical
Jun 2016
#25
no it isn't; it's violence lovers and nutbaggery; lots of people have access to weapons. nt
TheFrenchRazor
Jun 2016
#144