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hunter

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16. A member of our well regulated militia went off script and shot up a gay club.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Sat Jun 18, 2016, 03:13 PM

Jun 2016

This kind of unsanctioned violence against oppressed peoples is as American as apple pie.

Sell some weak-minded fools some guns, call them patriots, men of god, protectors of our way of life, whatever, and PROFIT!!!

Ask any number of American Indians, Black Americans, LGBT Americans, American union workers...

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