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In reply to the discussion: "Nobody wants to take your guns..." [View all]Straw Man
(6,740 posts)33. Staggering misconceptions.
The "preppers" are building bunkers and arming up, thinking they can protect themselves from the zombie hordes.
Meanwhile, the band plays on.
Meanwhile, the band plays on.
Again, one scarcely knows where to begin. You think preppers are representative of American gun owners as a whole? Do you get your information from reality TV?
They are all designed to protect and save lives, not to take lives. Do you get the difference?
Do you think a gun has never saved a life? Rubbish, plain and simple.
Who do I think you are afraid of? Other people, especially brown and black people http://voxday.blogspot.it/2012/12/why-us-gun-deaths-are-high.html
You cite some bullshit racist screed and attribute its sentiments to me? Clearly you don't know me, and my opinion of you sinks lower with each aspersion that you cast.
Most people are only a couple of paychecks away from homelessness. The economy is extremely fragile. ... Whether it happens this year, or in 5 years, or 10 years, I don't know. But the shit will eventually hit the fan.
You catch a rare glimpse of reality when you acknowledge that the real problems facing America are economic. Your dystopian vision may have some merit, but it has little to do with why people choose to arm themselves for self-defense.
And you think the problem is meth head tweakers and assorted criminals. Right!
Not the root of the problem, but the manifestation that I am most likely to encounter in my daily life, which is probably not as sheltered as yours.
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I seriously doubt that gangbangers et al would be treated as an exception
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#16
I think it is you who misses the point. And the canard canard again. LOL!
Starboard Tack
Aug 2014
#26
"If there were no guns available, then how would the gangbangers acquire them?"
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2014
#42
it's really going to happen isn't it? we can't even get sensible gun control let alone getting rid
samsingh
Aug 2014
#2
The guns that they are fighting hardest to ban are involved in less than 300 murders/yr.
benEzra
Aug 2015
#55
"Through each war we are in, combatants have become more and more willing to shoot to kill."
Nuclear Unicorn
Aug 2014
#43
And a liberal criminologist destroys the "Nobody wants to take your guns" meme
pablo_marmol
Aug 2014
#41