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In reply to the discussion: BUT NO, WE DON'T HAVE A GUN PROBLEM IN AMERICA [View all]Little Star
(17,055 posts)95. The Newtown Bee reported that a police officer carried a seriously wounded child from the building
Link to USA story here:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2012/12/14/school-shooting-connecticut/1769367/
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Good idea - Put microphones in the womb so the NRA can provide prenatal safety training, too
Politicub
Dec 2012
#85
I think the Michigan legislature this week had a bill allowing firearms in schools
bulloney
Dec 2012
#261
Start a movement. That guns belong only in certain places might soon be obvious
JDPriestly
Dec 2012
#92
Not stupid at all. Are you and I to blame for child pornography and botnets?
friendly_iconoclast
Dec 2012
#262
There in lies the problem. Too many people don't understand the problem.
A Simple Game
Dec 2012
#230
Right, we don't have time to have sex with one another; we need to look at this problem.
patrice
Dec 2012
#126
Well that settles everything. Lets dismiss decades of gun violence because a crazy person
Politicub
Dec 2012
#50
And if that crazy asshole would've had access to a gun, there would've been hundreds dead
laundry_queen
Dec 2012
#181
Well, obviously the Capitalists need to outsource more gun factories to China...
sanatanadharma
Dec 2012
#115
you are wrong. If there was any kind of killing at an elementary school it would have made news
still_one
Dec 2012
#75
Exactly. If the story read, "Multiple people, including children, have been killed [in multiple sta
rhett o rick
Dec 2012
#122
I am pretty sure he's saying some children being shot to death is good publicity for the school.
byeya
Dec 2012
#70
We have a higher tolerance for non-gun violence because it's much less likely to be lethal.
jeff47
Dec 2012
#43
What part of having so many readily available guns around escalates the violence, eludes you?
RC
Dec 2012
#140
Jesus H Christ, there's some sick fucks out there! The most stunning part to me is...
Little Star
Dec 2012
#14
If that's true Will, neither parent should never have custody of children again.
shraby
Dec 2012
#57
Why do you hesitate? We have a mass shooting every other week or so.
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2012
#158
Like maybe end the wars? Quit teaching people to kill others in other countries?
L0oniX
Dec 2012
#137
Price we pay to allow almost any yahoo to walk around with a gun or amass a cache of lethal weapons.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#23
But those kids could just have easily been run over by cars, don't you know?
Tommy_Carcetti
Dec 2012
#31
When I was working on a daily newspaper's news desk several years ago, we got a call that there had
Brickbat
Dec 2012
#120
No way at this point. We can't keep meth off the street and it is illegal! n-t
Logical
Dec 2012
#193
Until a death effects them in some way, or they become the target and start dying
King_Klonopin
Dec 2012
#303
Yes, while we sit around doing nothing over next decade, another 100 million will be produced and
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#89
Fortunately, less than half the population owns even one. A lot of folks have a bunch.
Hoyt
Dec 2012
#131
There is a tax on ammo right now: it should be increased to $100 a cartridge. That means the
apocalypsehow
Dec 2012
#281
If we don't get people to address the ROOT CAUSES of their problems - themselves - stuff
patrice
Dec 2012
#173
excuse us for complaining, but the object of your desire is murdering children
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2012
#160
That will never happen and you know it. And statements like yours do not help.
Logical
Dec 2012
#278
And in Michigan they just passed a law to allow conceal and carry in schools!
erinlough
Dec 2012
#45
"COME on, dose peoples coulda just as eezuly been kilt wit a lawnchaih!!!". . . or something . . .
HughBeaumont
Dec 2012
#55
Without knowing the particular facts here, what could have prevented this is the question?
still_one
Dec 2012
#63
What we can say is that lax gun laws and easy gun availability increases the number of shootings
DanTex
Dec 2012
#90
There used to be restriction on assault weapons, until the republicans took over. You are right,
still_one
Dec 2012
#256
The Newtown Bee reported that a police officer carried a seriously wounded child from the building
Little Star
Dec 2012
#95
Many DU members own guns. Most polls I've seen here in the past have it at about 50%.
L0oniX
Dec 2012
#148
Civil discussion about a societal problem doesn't have to equate to an anti-gun rant...
OneGrassRoot
Dec 2012
#155
Obviously you don't want gun control spoken of AT ALL. Because gun tragedies are more than weekly
CreekDog
Dec 2012
#187
Dividing DU members over gun ownership is exactly what the NRA would like to see.
L0oniX
Dec 2012
#243
Gee ...how long have we been at war somewhere? Are we a military country now? Seems so ...and...
L0oniX
Dec 2012
#134
K & R AND - FUCK YOU NRA ! ! ! ! FUCK you too, to the NRA supporting/ anti-sanity brigade.
Care Acutely
Dec 2012
#166
Holy Moly, Mother of God... differing reports every 5 minutes! Last report 10 kids/11 adults!!!
ReRe
Dec 2012
#177
When owning is gun is more important than anything else this is a as sick as it gets.
Harriety
Dec 2012
#197
I agree with your post, especially the last two words. (And no, URLs aren't words.)
2ndAmForComputers
Dec 2012
#210
We have a Crazy Fucking Person with Access to Guns Problem so yea, time to have that convo
Blaukraut
Dec 2012
#255
Your right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness in this country is abridged/
indepat
Dec 2012
#272