Gun Control & RKBA

beevul

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9. "lowered to three, then rolled into a new category" That sort of thing seems commonplace...

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 03:23 PM

Jul 2015

"lowered to three, then rolled into a new category"

Like when the brady bunch counts adults as "children. And when the gun control lobby rolled gun suicides and gun homicides and gun accidents into the category of 'gun violence'.

A. It magnifies the absolute numbers.

B. It leads to easier framing that 'its guns fault'. Theirs is a "our size fits all" solution, in search of a problem.

C. It pseudo-absolves them from having to distinguish between suicides and homicides and accidents.

D. Because of C, they feel entitled to castigate anyone that DOES recognize suicides, homicides, and accidents as the different problems that they are.

I wonder why.

See B. They want to go after the guns.

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94 US school and university shootings since Sandy Hook [View all] SecularMotion Jul 2015 OP

Wow, I'd hate to live in New York. Gun laws must be lax compared to neighboring Vermont. Oh wait... Shamash Jul 2015 #1

Had another bad day in GD? nt hack89 Jul 2015 #2

EveryLie for gun control. Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2015 #3

And yet we still won't get serious about school security....one would think folks want shootings. ileus Jul 2015 #4

Citing racist bloombergs group? beevul Jul 2015 #5

Will you post the jury results on your alert? SecularMotion Jul 2015 #7

All I see are red dots oneshooter Jul 2015 #6

Well, I guess the FBI definition of "mass murder" has been tortured out of existance... Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #8

"lowered to three, then rolled into a new category" That sort of thing seems commonplace... beevul Jul 2015 #9

"Trouble. That starts with 'T,' which ryhmes with 'P' which stands for POOL!" Eleanors38 Jul 2015 #10

"You watch your phraseology!" LOL N/T beevul Jul 2015 #11

it leaves out the one in Wyoming gejohnston Jul 2015 #12