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Loudly

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9. Here's to promoting a general restraint from violence.

Reply to HiPointDem (Reply #7)

Sat Jul 21, 2012, 01:49 AM

Jul 2012

From the State as well as the individual.

But empowering the individual with the technological capacity for deadly violence?

Oh jesus christ. That's utterly lacking in protection of the public.

You think the United Nations is going to come down on James Eagen Holmes or Colorado?

For crimes against humanity?

Hell no, they know what insane gun lovers the American People are. Unfortunately, so do our elected officials.

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