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In reply to the discussion: Visa urged to to sever links with National Rifle Association [View all]Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)17. 30 gun deaths a day for the last 30 years.........adds up and up and up.
Sayin "fucking" does make ones point better though give, you that.
And the number you pulled out of your fucking stupid keyboard is incorrect:
http://worldwithoutgenocide.org/genocides-and-conflicts/cambodian-genocide
750K, but how does comparisons like this make any point at all other than both are genocidal?
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BARF........how about the legislation blocked in the Senate for background checks, etc.,..BARF.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#34
Really? An NRA apologist? smh. The NRA pours money on people in Congress to make sure they vote
Cha
Jun 2014
#88
re: "...it is easier to just blame a boogie man than understand the issue for what it is..."
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Jun 2014
#103
Because one can get a visa card supporting everything from local school athletic
pipoman
Jun 2014
#51
Controversial civil liberty groups do not have instruments of death as their focus, do they?
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#10
You do not "get" it at all. There is a balance, modifying one amendment is not hate of the other.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#21
So America is no more than a mini genocide, got it? Still with the insults, really pathetic.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#23
What an ignorant way to make an argument, so for you American gundeaths are at good levels?
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#25
Fat people choose to eat, shot people not so much choose to get shot...see the difference?
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#37
They have tried every way possible to defend something indefensible. Their rage doesn't assist them.
Judi Lynn
Jun 2014
#75
Those are natural diseases, not brains blown out....really, that is pathetic.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#57
Since all people die, why bother with trying to delay death, THAT is your logic? Please proceed.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#64
American gun genocide,yes it is, and my 30/day was in error, more like 90 a day. Apologies.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#27
Perhaps you can explain how someone choosing to take their own life is genocidal?
IronGate
Jun 2014
#66
That's not genocide, that's individuals choosing to end their existence on earth.
IronGate
Jun 2014
#68
Visa probably doesn't care about an online, worthless petition with a few thousand signatures.
IronGate
Jun 2014
#54
Yes, keep the faith. Downer posters should be ignored, they got really fragile egos it seems.
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#69
Does your Captain know you are posting more than a day in the life here, because that would be more
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#71
I'm using up all my vacation and comp time, which gave me appox. 2 1/2 months off.
IronGate
Jun 2014
#72
The point is to collect many more, and yes, they have a department dedicated to public relations,
Fred Sanders
Jun 2014
#73
I think it's unlikely that VISA will do anything, but I doubt it would harm them
petronius
Jun 2014
#79
Have never heard of this organization. Thanks for mentioning it. Sounds great. n/t
Judi Lynn
Jun 2014
#80
Yeah, it's a pretty clever idea. I don't know what their fees are like, but it
petronius
Jun 2014
#83
There are a lot of people who'd leap to do business with a company they perceive as ethical. n/t
Judi Lynn
Jun 2014
#91
74 school shootings in the 18 months since the Sandy Hook elementary school massacre...
freshwest
Jun 2014
#89
That is why we must marginalize them and push for gun regulation which the majority wants
BrotherIvan
Jun 2014
#137
I'm glad we're having this exchange so people can see how much compassion pro gun people have
BrotherIvan
Jun 2014
#129
Ah, I see we're expected to use the term "school shooting" as defined by the NRA? Ah, no.
myrna minx
Jun 2014
#96
I'm rather sure most folks understand the difference between a hanging and a shooting.
myrna minx
Jun 2014
#112
A hanging isn't a shooting. Ergo, one death is a hanging and one is a shooting.
myrna minx
Jun 2014
#114