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In reply to the discussion: The CDC study on guns...shut down. [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)102. Probably a good solution for you. I have several firearms, locked up to prevent
criminals and thugs from getting them.
My Dad taught me as a child how to use and fire a gun. We had some 40 firearms with four kids. No one worried.
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It must be rough only getting to troll the occasional GD gun related thread NT
Trunk Monkey
Oct 2012
#3
You got lucky. A jury voted 3-3 on what is clearly and only a personal attack
Electric Monk
Oct 2012
#25
No, when the 'king of all trolls' accuses other of trolling it must be a slow day in the gun forum
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#55
I would suggest same for those who have to strap a gun or two on to venture into public.
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#77
First I have to clarify that when I'm done working I'm usually home for the day
Trunk Monkey
Oct 2012
#185
There's needs to be laws passed that make assault , suicide and violence against other people illegal
former-republican
Oct 2012
#4
And there is your confusion: murder rates are not total firearm related deaths.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2012
#83
you are talking about crime stats. The CDC numbers are not the same at all.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2012
#130
Is it wrong that people have a quick and easy way to kill themselves?
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#106
Do you disagree that gun violence and deaths have significantly declined in the past 30 years?
hack89
Oct 2012
#61
Right: "30,000 gun deaths each year isn't a crisis." That's the GOP talking, of course.
baldguy
Oct 2012
#117
Might be even less had we said "No" decades ago to those who believe more guns, in more places,
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#186
Support for gun control is soft because it's been endlessly propagandized by the RW for 40 yrs.
baldguy
Oct 2012
#217
The issue of "assault rifles" has been discussed numerous times in this forum.
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#104
There is an urban myth, with considerable truth to it, that cops are chronically...
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#136
What are they doing to research better flash-bangs and non(er, less than?)-lethal weapons?
Zalatix
Oct 2012
#143
When crime goes up the answer is clear: too many guns. More guns = more crime!
4th law of robotics
Oct 2012
#110
National "facts" aside, your statement simply isn't true up here in the PNW...
countryjake
Oct 2012
#212
Agree - but lethal weapons embolden some folks. Georgie Zimmernan is good example.
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#10
That's a big part of it. The other part is that NRA's leadership - including Grover Norquist, John
Hoyt
Oct 2012
#40
There are people who smoke a pack a day their entire lives and never get lung cancer.
Warren Stupidity
Oct 2012
#133
Well yeah... you'd have to actually take it out of your storage location....
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#67
Probably a good solution for you. I have several firearms, locked up to prevent
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#102
Anytime one proposes a law -- especially a ban -- they must show how such action will resolve...
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#114
You might be interested in what the CDC said themselves about gun-control strategies:
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#113
Well played. Not that it will do any good where prohibition is concerned. nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#115
Thank the Supreme Court for strengthening the influence of special interests on our government. n/t
porphyrian
Oct 2012
#43
We don't need to spend money on frivolous studies to prove that dangerous weapons are dangerous
slackmaster
Oct 2012
#44
Those who speak out against this OP do not believe in the 1st amendment but otherwise
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#45
Because guns are a natural part of the human anatomy that you are born with
Crunchy Frog
Oct 2012
#52
"Those who speak out against this OP do not believe in the 1st amendment"?!?!
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#68
Yup yup uhuh yeppers who haw yee haw get the guns boyz we're going out to the movies
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#72
I know and sigh that the gun industry has absorbed so many into their thinking.
Whovian
Oct 2012
#154
Back in the day, when I was a kid, people had rifles and shotguns for hunting
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#155
Interesting stats. Compared to Canada, the firearm homicide rate per 100,000 is less than 1/5 ...
sl8
Oct 2012
#158
Guns as an instrument of murder or assault. In this case 2/3's of murderers decided on a gun.
Whovian
Oct 2012
#162
A certain percentage of the people that would use a gun would use something else.
krispos42
Oct 2012
#178
Mr Polize man, this is DEMOCRATIC Underground, not Free Republic or the NRA blog
DainBramaged
Oct 2012
#79
Oh, he would be assured if Officer Blart answered 9-1-1 and answered: "Hold on...
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#126
Sorry, but "we say" PRO-2A. And most of DU agrees. Got it? Hold onto it. Firmly. nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#125
He stumbled drunkenly, like a robot, from the porta-John, trailing toilet paper before all.nt
Eleanors38
Oct 2012
#129
You're doing nothing but living up to the promise of your screen name. Good luck with that. n/t
PavePusher
Oct 2012
#150
As I understand the law, funding requirements prohibit advocacy or promotion of gun control.
aikoaiko
Oct 2012
#145