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Gun Control & RKBA

ileus

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33. Did you somehow think I recommended the abused to roll over and die for their attackers?

Reply to TexasMommaWithAHat (Reply #28)

Fri Dec 12, 2014, 07:41 PM

Dec 2014

If you're abused would you not recommend better steps and decisions?

If you're abused remove yourself or the abuser from the home. Then take the necessary steps to protect yourself and family.

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Gun-toting Texas mom shoots, kills estranged husband and daughter before going to mental Hospital [View all] UglyGreed Dec 2014 OP

A very avid gun rights activist, it appears. stone space Dec 2014 #1

I don't know how it could be more pre-meditated than that... hlthe2b Dec 2014 #2

Premeditated murder. She sent the younger kids away before returning to murder her husband peacebird Dec 2014 #3

Gun-humping....a co-Ed sport. These people make me sick. Nt pkdu Dec 2014 #4

This ammosexual's named one of her gunz, "Size Matters". stone space Dec 2014 #15

Is that a 50BMG? ileus Dec 2014 #24

What do ammophobes call it? friendly_iconoclast Dec 2014 #35

IMO The drive to the hospital UglyGreed Dec 2014 #5

Also keeps Cops from questioning her - time to COLGATE4 Dec 2014 #6

Another firearm kept by the family "for protection" used in the killing of a family member. Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #7

Only this was the family member that wasn't... ileus Dec 2014 #8

Awesome. Your advice is to be on better look out for mental illness? Was that sarcasm, because Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #9

You see what ignoring mental illness and going around unarmed got him. ileus Dec 2014 #10

People who want to snip the Bill of Rights because of their own paranoia don't have to make sense. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #11

No gun, no die, it is the gun that permits easy peasy death as the consequence, why is Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #12

Context. Is it really OK for you if only police and armies and governments have guns? NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #14

This ammosexual toted her gunz in public. stone space Dec 2014 #17

Arguably, our knowing that they have a gun makes us safer. Also, it's a local decision. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #18

Well damn, sarisataka Dec 2014 #16

No water, no die. NYC_SKP Dec 2014 #19

Dangerous stuff that sarisataka Dec 2014 #20

Another poster in this thread has advocated ignoring the law and just arresting people... friendly_iconoclast Dec 2014 #34

Exactly....just ask my Grandmother. ileus Dec 2014 #26

No alcohol Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #31

C'mon, give the poor controllers a break DonP Dec 2014 #13

Confusing concern with "celebration", another example of how twisted smear is used to justify loving Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #21

Preference. Straw Man Dec 2014 #22

Perfect! Thanks for proving my point DonP Dec 2014 #23

guns kill people donjaknow! ileus Dec 2014 #25

Bare hands and baseball bats kill more than semi-automatic rifles. Perhaps miliaries should convert. Nuclear Unicorn Dec 2014 #32

Is this the advice you give to women who have been abused? TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #28

They are not much into logic, the gun folk have to create alternative realities to justify ownership Fred Sanders Dec 2014 #29

What's your advice? DonP Dec 2014 #30

Did you somehow think I recommended the abused to roll over and die for their attackers? ileus Dec 2014 #33

Her culpable mental state..... Historic NY Dec 2014 #27