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Gun Control & RKBA

Irish_Dem

(49,872 posts)

5. The GOP goal is to create hatred, rage, chaos, violence.

Reply to Jrose (Reply #2)

Thu Jan 26, 2023, 09:54 AM

Jan 2023

Demonize various groups to make them targets.

This makes for a numb, docile, apathetic populace.
Perfect setting for the GOP to achieve their goal of permanent power.

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Why number of US mass shootings has risen sharply [View all] nightwing1240 Jan 2023 OP

We're awfully late on harder-to-get. We should question current motivations of the shooters bucolic_frolic Jan 2023 #1

We have no studies because in 1996 an amendment was added to the omnibus bill that AndyS Jan 2023 #7

Increase in mass shootings Jrose Jan 2023 #2

Hard not to see a correlation of those with the shootings nightwing1240 Jan 2023 #3

Words have consequences Jrose Jan 2023 #4

Mass quantities of readily-available guns have consequences. Paladin Feb 2023 #12

The GOP goal is to create hatred, rage, chaos, violence. Irish_Dem Jan 2023 #5

Because a lot of mediocre radically conservative white guys are butt-hurt because other people are Scrivener7 Jan 2023 #6

I heard of a recent study of 160 mass shootings that showed AndyS Jan 2023 #8

Both have a common denominator -- chronic elevation of negative emotions due to exposure ancianita Jan 2023 #10

If, as "they" say, only deranged people kill people, not guns, then ... usonian Jan 2023 #9

How about getting treatment/locking up those that are on the path to murder? yagotme Feb 2023 #11