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PoindexterOglethorpe

(25,841 posts)
2. Apparently you never got the memo about how guns make us safe.
Thu Dec 26, 2019, 03:27 AM
Dec 2019

A bit of sarcasm here.

I'm as disgusted as you are.

All too often stories of shootings, especially of mass shootings which this was not, tend to focus on whether or not the guns were legally obtained. Legal, illegal, it's the fucking guns, asshole!

Were I in charge we'd be taking all guns away immediately. And for those of you who protest, "But what about the hunters?" here's my answer. The guns for hunting are kept in the Guns For Hunting save location. Your gun is kept there, registered for you. When hunting season opens and you have the appropriate license you check your gun out, along with some appropriate amount of ammunition. You go out, you hunt. If you make a kill, good for you. At the end you turn the gun and unused ammunition in. And no, your right to hunt has been in no way abrogated.

What I want to abrogate is someone's unfettered license to kill. In my opinion, my right (or someone else's right) to stay alive completely overrules your right to kill me.

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