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In reply to the discussion: This country will never be able to control guns and there is only one inevitable conclusion... [View all]procon
(15,805 posts)126. If you think that's a significant issue then keep at it and demand a greater effort
to achieve even more substantial results, yeah?
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This country will never be able to control guns and there is only one inevitable conclusion... [View all]
luvspeas
Jul 2015
OP
We can't throw simply throw the baby out with the bathwater over a few outliers.
procon
Jul 2015
#113
Dixie Swastika. NRA Swastika. Both coming down. It is only logical. 320 million guns. Irrefutable.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#109
Speaking of logic, you seem to be lacking it completly in this post..
virginia mountainman
Jul 2015
#120
You were amusing, now you are Full Ignore #39...you earned it with one too many personal attacks.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#121
Since it will spare me the chants of "Vile NRA", "Dixie Swastika", et cetera, add me!
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#124
LOL! I am not the one making up words, and ignoring basic grammar..
virginia mountainman
Jul 2015
#136
Australia also does not permit AK-47 style assault-type weapons to be so freely and easily purchased.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#33
Australia also bans pump shotguns, and is now talking about banning lever-actions
benEzra
Jul 2015
#111
The 1994 Feinstein law banned no guns, and actually tripled sales of AR's and AK's after 1994.
benEzra
Jul 2015
#116
Yes. Taking down the Dixie Swastika and making it radioactive is an excellent and topical example.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#122
If you think that's a significant issue then keep at it and demand a greater effort
procon
Jul 2015
#126
Not sure what was "won." Subsequent critics have contended the "turn-in" rate is much smaller
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#41
The problem with Australia's crime rate: It shares that phenomenon with many countries...
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#69
Except you're fighting to ban many of the *least* powerful and *least* misused.
benEzra
Jul 2015
#117
Constitutional amendment giving all citizens the right to free body armor and helmets
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#3
I don't see how the right to life conflicts with the right to bear arms.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#36
The right of sane people to bear arms = okay. Right of insane people to bear arms = problem.
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#88
To me, the community of gun owners ought to be responsible for figuring out a solution
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#94
My goodness! With all respect, where have you been? Virtually every shooting that
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#42
A british criminologist found out that guns are neither solution to nor cause of gun-violence.
DetlefK
Jul 2015
#7
The US is already adapted to mass shootings. IMO, a mass shooting per week is not far away.
AlinPA
Jul 2015
#68
The Swiss Constitution grants an explicit right to individual firearm ownership. n/t
Shamash
Jul 2015
#21
I think there is an authentic and on the whole positive quality to individual(ism)...
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#140
The Controller over-reliance on cartoons and comedians makes it very hard to take them seriously.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#20
A safer post would have been to stick to references to penis-length & paranoia.
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#44
Oh my. It seems she is laboring under the misconceptions that I am a man and the alerter.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#79
I still say the genie is out of the bottle and we are headed toward one inevitable conclusion
luvspeas
Jul 2015
#22
Murder rate is trending down with 300+ million guns in play, so why exactly are you doom and gloomin
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#24
Are 320 million guns and easy access to them a proximal cause of mass murders? A real head scratcher, eh?
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#31
Culture warriors tend to be rather tone-deaf when it comes to messaging
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#100
If Fred's ignorance about guns was water, California's drought would be over by now. n/t
Shamash
Jul 2015
#51
Good for you! Please support a national gun buyback program, it is clearly a vital component of control.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#62
"Please support a national gun buyback program, it is clearly a vital component of control."
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#80
"A real head scratcher, eh?" Not for those that don't believe in animism...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#63
"Mockery", and derivatives thereof, is indeed one word gun-lovers understand well and richly deserve to know the meaning of.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#39
"Maybe 100 bullet drum mags"... because you just don't know what? That 100 bullet drums are insane?!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#72
The gibes of the politically ineffectual carry little or no sting...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#47
Glad to know that mass killings were unknown before guns were invented
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#66
Conflating the vile NRA leadership with Wall Street is nothing a liberal would do, even in jest.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#85
"Was it over when the Vile NRA bombed Pearl Harbor?" I am *so* going to steal that...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#99