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graham4anything

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17. see em on this very board, one article after another with another dead person from a gun

Reply to Lizzie Poppet (Reply #10)

Thu Jan 10, 2013, 05:43 PM

Jan 2013

I don't think I ever saw a gun cure cancer though
Nor have I seen a gun perform on Broadway

guns and the gunslinger are history. Might take a few years, but in 100 years from now, people shall look back at 2012 and see that history was made

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More gun laws won't stop the killings? [View all] Tab Jan 2013 OP

it's time to stop listening to gun nuts Skittles Jan 2013 #1

Half of all masacres in US happened after lifting Assault weapons Ban in 2005...a uponit7771 Jan 2013 #2

it's all about votes. there are more people who want realistic gun laws samsingh Jan 2013 #3

I think what we're supposed to believe gollygee Jan 2013 #4

Take the 1934 NFA Recursion Jan 2013 #5

We need to ban all private guns from the street. Let them keep it at home. Ban all in the street graham4anything Jan 2013 #6

You see a lot of guns in your streets? regjoe Jan 2013 #7

the school in CT is less than 50 miles from here, so yet I do and I see dead people graham4anything Jan 2013 #9

Really? You personally see these things? Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #10

see em on this very board, one article after another with another dead person from a gun graham4anything Jan 2013 #17

WOW! CT is a very dangerous place regjoe Jan 2013 #20

A flaw in your argument concerning the federal government pressuring the states hack89 Jan 2013 #8

It might be politically difficult to get sensible gun laws through the GOP-controlled house, sure. DanTex Jan 2013 #11

Sure we can keep trying hack89 Jan 2013 #12

And we should keep trying, is the point. Hopefully, the Newtown shootings will change some minds. DanTex Jan 2013 #13

Universal background checks is easy and relatively non-controversial. hack89 Jan 2013 #15

There are no real states rights issues. That's basically just an NRA talking point. DanTex Jan 2013 #14

We must look at the real reasons for gun violence. SocialistTwo Jan 2013 #16

Japanese are nuts about video games, etc OKNancy Jan 2013 #19

Maybe, but without access to large clips and semi's/autos... Tab Jan 2013 #21

My grandson was talking to me about the issue and said many of what we are talking about are not jwirr Jan 2013 #18