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In reply to the discussion: Accept Guns As The Price Of Freedom & Living In America [View all]anigbrowl
(13,889 posts)53. I think you should answer. How exactly do you propose to implement this?
As far as I can see it'll be an almost instant dead letter based on what you've argued so far. I would also like to see magazine size limits, but I really do not know what to do about the large number of high-capacity magazines already in circulation.
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If a "reasonable person" can clearly understand that magazines that hold more than 9 rounds
TeddyR
Jun 2016
#50
They aren't outlawed. No new ones of been produced since 86' for civilian use since the ATF closed
Waldorf
Jun 2016
#40
If you were really concerned with saving lives, you'd propose something that could actually be enact
Lizzie Poppet
Jun 2016
#52
gun users have killed what 200K people in the past 8 years? no corpse pile will EVER be too high
msongs
Jun 2016
#4
2/3 of that number are suicides. Just setting a high standard for intellectual honesty.
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#46
Solving social problems by banning a thing, behavior or status does not work.
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#69
I have never argued for a ban on guns, so don't expect me to be your straw man .nt
anigbrowl
Jun 2016
#70
Sorry, you may as well declare that the police have failed to protect American citizens.
jonno99
Jun 2016
#8
What do you want to "solve" - hate, violence, death? Getting rid of "gunz" solves none of it. nt
jonno99
Jun 2016
#13
Making it ridiculously easy to commit mass-murder has no effect whatsoever on a person's decision
Dem2
Jun 2016
#20
Ban fireworks- and the Tsarnaev brothers would have nothing to fill their pressure cookers with
jpak
Jun 2016
#12
Using your logic, simply enacting a midnight curfew for everyone would solve MOST of our problems.nt
jonno99
Jun 2016
#14
By your logic more guns are the answer to our problems and we should ignore gun massacres
jpak
Jun 2016
#19
It's not rocket science. Looking at just one statistic, rape; the Aussies have seen
jonno99
Jun 2016
#31
It's simple really. I'll bet more than one rape victim would have preffered being able to
jonno99
Jun 2016
#59
Your claim about an increase in AU rape is a Ted Cruz talking point debunked by the WaPo
jpak
Jun 2016
#49
I'll admit this:. Guns ARE here to stay. Doesn't matter if there are more or less. As to...
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#51
accept mortars and grenades too... no... there's a practical middle ground to this
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#11
How about surface-to-air missiles? I live right under an alternate flight path.
KamaAina
Jun 2016
#16
It isn't a contest, except in the insane minds of psycho killers. I tend to agree with post #6, this
One Black Sheep
Jun 2016
#15