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Gun Control & RKBA

DonP

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12. Their response to a sharply falling crime rate - "Not fast enough"

Reply to Nuclear Unicorn (Reply #8)

Wed Jun 29, 2016, 05:44 PM

Jun 2016

If we just had fewer guns it would be falling much faster, they're so sure. No evidence of course, but they're positive.

Coupled with their religious meme that "there are no new gun owners".

Well, except in Illinois and Mass, where we have FOID cards and you can actually count all the new gun owners. Like the 2 million new FOID card holders/gun owners in Illinois alone in the last 2 years.

But I'm sure the other 48 states all must have fewer gun owners, right?

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Augusta police: Legally armed bystanders break up Walmart shooting [View all] Just reading posts Jun 2016 OP

Good Guy with a gun Elmergantry Jun 2016 #1

... shenmue Jun 2016 #4

That can't happen Duckhunter935 Jun 2016 #2

It DIDN'T happen: No one was killed, so statistically it doesn't show up on controller radar. Eleanors38 Jun 2016 #6

I wonder how many resent the fact it didn't degenerate into a confused free-for-all. Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2016 #3

Plenty- and they'll studiously pretend that they never heard of this... friendly_iconoclast Jun 2016 #5

I don't understand how they resent the absence of bad news and the presence of good news. Nuclear Unicorn Jun 2016 #8

It doesn't fit their narrative. Just reading posts Jun 2016 #11

Their response to a sharply falling crime rate - "Not fast enough" DonP Jun 2016 #12

MA and IL are obviously pro-gun outliers. Just reading posts Jun 2016 #13

Message auto-removed Name removed Jun 2016 #15

But, but, but, we've been assured that the police will shoot the concealed carriers DonP Jun 2016 #9

Impossible.. virginia mountainman Jun 2016 #10

Total BS. Never happened. linuxman Jun 2016 #14

Gun free zones help facilitate rampage killers. Kang Colby Jul 2016 #16