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Kang Colby

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9. Hopolophobia is very real.

Sun Jun 19, 2016, 09:00 PM

Jun 2016

Gun owners are just average people, the kind of folks who continue to mourn the victims of the Orlando attack. But "gun control" just won't be the answer, thankfully.

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Howard Dean is right. This is the year that gunfuckery begins to end. [View all] onehandle Jun 2016 OP

You mean, "But it was a Sig Sauer Whateverthefuck!" isn't going to cut it anymore? BeyondGeography Jun 2016 #1

+1 villager Jun 2016 #33

Action is needed, some people do not need to have weapons in their possession. Thinkingabout Jun 2016 #2

Rights are NOT ABOUT fucking NEEDS. cherokeeprogressive Jun 2016 #13

because this right is predicated on thousands of innocent deaths annually, needs are not. LanternWaste Jun 2016 #45

No right is absolute. Demit Jun 2016 #59

What makes you think that? Cassiopeia Jun 2016 #3

Hopefully. deathrind Jun 2016 #4

Let the marketplace decide Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #29

The tipping point... Kang Colby Jun 2016 #5

Being against mass murder of LGBTs is a made up 'condition?' onehandle Jun 2016 #7

Hopolophobia is very real. Kang Colby Jun 2016 #9

The guy who came up with that word... Agschmid Jun 2016 #21

Incredibly over-simplistic thinking jack_krass Jun 2016 #65

Wow. That gif says it all about the direction that gun-control is trending. (nt) w4rma Jun 2016 #15

Blue means they banned guns, right? linuxman Jun 2016 #24

;) Kang Colby Jun 2016 #25

That's a sad map, and... scscholar Jun 2016 #34

Only in your mind, as violent crime and murder rates have dropped friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #38

Cause people own devices that kill massive amounts of people? no.. that's silly on its face uponit7771 Jun 2016 #46

What's silly on its face is your denial of reality- see Caetano v. Massachusetts friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #64

USSC said these devices can be regulated, not law that they can't uponit7771 Jun 2016 #67

But they cannot be banned entirely, which is what you've advocated elsewhere: friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #68

Every time there's another mass shooting, we get closer to the gun humper utopia. Crunchy Frog Jun 2016 #37

What? Kang Colby Jun 2016 #40

Yes it does uponit7771 Jun 2016 #47

You have been telling us that for over a decade hack89 Jun 2016 #6

Please tell how you plan to stop the killings. peace13 Jun 2016 #8

You can't davidn3600 Jun 2016 #10

You know it has worked in a few civilized countries don't you? peace13 Jun 2016 #20

What's even more naive is to think long overdue action won't matter at all. nt villager Jun 2016 #35

Few upstanding governments aided in people killing each other randomly in massive numbers uponit7771 Jun 2016 #48

I am open to most proposals with two exceptions hack89 Jun 2016 #12

"Golden age for gun rights"= blue neen Jun 2016 #17

We have cut our murder and manslaughter rates in half over the past 20 years hack89 Jun 2016 #18

Tell it to the dead children of Sandy Hook. peace13 Jun 2016 #22

Do you expect the murder rate to drop to zero overnight? hack89 Jun 2016 #26

I expect that we get the automatic type of gun off the street! peace13 Jun 2016 #36

Nothing like 'solving' a moral panic with hastily-conceived ideas... friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #39

Unfortunately for you, the Supreme Court just put the kibosh on your idea, 8-0 friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #41

Not all gun deaths and injuries are caused by murders. blue neen Jun 2016 #31

Accidental deaths are at historic lows too hack89 Jun 2016 #32

No one was mentally ill for this tragedy, although they probably will be now: blue neen Jun 2016 #44

We can trade long lists of kids being killed using legal objects. hack89 Jun 2016 #50

Please link and quote that being because people own mass death devices uponit7771 Jun 2016 #49

I don't think gun ownership rates and murder rates are linked. hack89 Jun 2016 #51

Devices meant to kill massive amounts of humans have increased the number of mass killings though uponit7771 Jun 2016 #52

I am not sure that is the case hack89 Jun 2016 #53

Post ban? tia uponit7771 Jun 2016 #54

I am willing to look at your data. Please post the link. nt hack89 Jun 2016 #55

I didn't make the claim that most of the mass killings post ban was made with hand guns.... uponit7771 Jun 2016 #56

So neither of us knows for certain. hack89 Jun 2016 #57

No... not true at all.. link inside uponit7771 Jun 2016 #58

There is a significant flaw in that logic. hack89 Jun 2016 #60

Then I stand corrected, it was high capacity magazines seeing the ban was mostly costmetic uponit7771 Jun 2016 #61

"mostly handguns and, to a smaller extent, rifles " hack89 Jun 2016 #62

Shun the gun Jerry442 Jun 2016 #11

I shoot with doctors, lawyers, professors- a whole slew of educated professional people like me hack89 Jun 2016 #14

Good luck with that Abq_Sarah Jun 2016 #19

So basically you think all of us out here in Flyover Country are subhuman scum. Got it. Odin2005 Jun 2016 #28

THEM? How, pray tell, do you spot "THEM"? I don't wear strange clothes. I don't talk funny. cherokeeprogressive Jun 2016 #30

And who shall stop the GunFuckery? Silver_Witch Jun 2016 #16

We will. Jerry442 Jun 2016 #42

Doubtful. linuxman Jun 2016 #23

That logo, that screengrab...what are those folks holding in their hands? flvegan Jun 2016 #27

Objects of antiquity. nt onehandle Jun 2016 #43

Choppers. Iggo Jun 2016 #63

This message was self-deleted by its author Downtown Hound Jun 2016 #66