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yellowcanine

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40. Clearly we need to arm supermarket cashiers and managers.

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Jan 16, 2014, 03:01 PM

Jan 2014

The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.

And they could openly display the guns - would cut down on the whining from customers about how the groceries were bagged. So this would be a two-fer.

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Gun culture. Warren Stupidity Jan 2014 #1

Another day, another shooting liberal N proud Jan 2014 #2

Like clockwork. baldguy Jan 2014 #3

When in the hell are we going to enforce BOTH parts of the 2nd Amendment? RC Jan 2014 #4

case law does not Niceguy1 Jan 2014 #5

Because the pro-death industry has spent several decades & billions of dollars to ensure it doesn't. baldguy Jan 2014 #6

what about hunting Niceguy1 Jan 2014 #7

Don't bother Duckhunter935 Jan 2014 #8

Listen to yourself!!!!!! kag Jan 2014 #14

+1000 crim son Jan 2014 #33

"One bad apple." Chorophyll Jan 2014 #17

Try 11,400 deaths cause by guns in 2013 alone RC Jan 2014 #21

11,400 out of 300 million+ Duckhunter935 Jan 2014 #27

Suicide isn't a positive argument for guns. jeff47 Jan 2014 #29

Tell me what you would want Duckhunter935 Jan 2014 #28

Dude.... JackInGreen Jan 2014 #11

Straw man, yet again. kag Jan 2014 #12

My brother and BIL both hunt. Brigid Jan 2014 #19

This has nothing to do with hunting, and nothing to do with mental health. baldguy Jan 2014 #13

how about real numbers Niceguy1 Jan 2014 #16

The average number of mass shootings has almost trippled in the last five years. baldguy Jan 2014 #22

Prof. Fox Phd writing in this months Journal Homicide disputes that One_Life_To_Give Jan 2014 #41

Like holstering, or carrying a rifle in a case, or shooting at a target on a range? carla Jan 2014 #18

"Crime is almost never stopped by a gun" Blandocyte Jan 2014 #30

So what? It is well past time that BOTH parts of the 2nd Amendment were looked at together. RC Jan 2014 #10

It's a circular arguement Kaleva Jan 2014 #35

It will, sooner or later, when people get tired of this. ronnie624 Jan 2014 #34

Like hell it hasn't ... brett_jv Jan 2014 #37

Exercising his freedoms JackInGreen Jan 2014 #9

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Were the 2 women texting? Pale Blue Dot Jan 2014 #20

Heh. Maybe they were texting in the popcorn aisle. Chorophyll Jan 2014 #24

CDC greymattermom Jan 2014 #23

Because of the influence of the pro-death gun lobby. baldguy Jan 2014 #25

Right marions ghost Jan 2014 #26

There is plenty of gun violence data on the CDC website hack89 Jan 2014 #38

course the right will first ask was he black... PatrynXX Jan 2014 #31

Think of all the jobs it will create bucolic_frolic Jan 2014 #32

Here's a new and interesting idea,,, go west young man Jan 2014 #36

This is sad Harmony Blue Jan 2014 #39

Clearly we need to arm supermarket cashiers and managers. yellowcanine Jan 2014 #40