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In reply to the discussion: IF YOUR REACTION TO SHOOTINGS (edit to include positive call to action) [View all]ChillZilla
(56 posts)18. What about if your first reaction is...
Hey, let's take everyone's guns?
Self centered either way. Unless your first thought was for the kids, teachers and their families, you care more about policies than people. I think that's pretty fair.
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OneGrassRoot
Dec 2012
OP
I frequent CT boards. EVERY shooting since Obama has taken office is considered a "false flag"...
Democracyinkind
Dec 2012
#94
to be somewhat fair-- my first/second reaction was we really need gun control!
NoMoreWarNow
Dec 2012
#13
actually, when first I saw there was another shooting, my first thought was we really need
NoMoreWarNow
Dec 2012
#17
If guns are outlawed and "only criminals" have guns eventually those guns will be confiscated
xtraxritical
Dec 2012
#48
How many people have a bomb fetish vs a gun fetish? How much easier is it buy and use a gun vs..
Zookeeper
Dec 2012
#50
You think there aren't people who think this is an opportunity to remove gun rights?
FBaggins
Dec 2012
#26
Heard the awful news on the radio. My first thought was not about gun control but about those
Filibuster Harry
Dec 2012
#24
I signed in for the first time in months just so I could reccomend this post. NT
eyepaddle
Dec 2012
#25
The Constitution had already authorized the army and navy, the 2nd Amendment is like the rest of
TheKentuckian
Dec 2012
#102
If your first reaction to the shooting was to put up this stupid graphic...
Daemonaquila
Dec 2012
#29
Fuck the NRA and fuck the anti-sanity brigade/gun nutz that are enablers of the tragedy today.
Care Acutely
Dec 2012
#36
Probably the second reaction and rightly so. VERY tired of these deaths from assault rifles.
JimDandy
Dec 2012
#37
I don't like people who defend gun culture when Kindergartners are murdered.
DisgustipatedinCA
Dec 2012
#46
As far as I am concerned the gun nutters might as well have pulled the trigger today.
aandegoons
Dec 2012
#56
My first thought. "oh no not again" and now I feel teary thinking of those little children who were
kimbutgar
Dec 2012
#51
I think I know why the resistance—the non sequiturs, the obfuscation, the "yes buts,"
MisterP
Dec 2012
#79
My first thought was how those little children must have been TERRIFIED beyond anything
DearHeart
Dec 2012
#88