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Throd

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19. Which is why I own one.

Reply to Hugabear (Reply #14)

Fri Jan 18, 2013, 02:26 PM

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Some day we'll look back on gun ownership the same way we look back on slave ownership [View all] Hugabear Jan 2013 OP

This makes no sense to me. zappaman Jan 2013 #1

I see the point went sailing right over your head Hugabear Jan 2013 #3

Ahhhhh zappaman Jan 2013 #7

I can't go that far quinnox Jan 2013 #2

Humans are not objects, objects are objects. The comparison is odious. Bluenorthwest Jan 2013 #4

to me it's a safety issue n/t Enrique Jan 2013 #5

Exactly. I've been saying this all along. Gun apologists are already relegated to history's dustbin villager Jan 2013 #6

what exactly is a "gun apologist"? cali Jan 2013 #12

I'm not a gun owner and don't feel the need to be Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #20

A huge majority of them are, yes. villager Jan 2013 #27

I read, somewhere, ... 1StrongBlackMan Jan 2013 #31

I think that's exactly right. And there will of course be the usual resistance to history's flow villager Jan 2013 #37

I think you will see everyone packing. GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #8

I don't see the comparison as being valid cali Jan 2013 #9

You don't think people can look at gun ownership with extreme disgust? Hugabear Jan 2013 #10

nope. I think you'll remain a small minority. cali Jan 2013 #11

A very tiny minority, at that derby378 Jan 2013 #15

Ugh. You should really rethink your OP. Matariki Jan 2013 #13

Not just an object. An object whose primary purpose is to kill. Hugabear Jan 2013 #14

Which is why I own one. Throd Jan 2013 #19

So your primary purpose is to kill? Hugabear Jan 2013 #21

No. But you know that. Throd Jan 2013 #25

yes, just an object. no matter how heinous one thinks guns are they are indisputably cali Jan 2013 #23

I'm not going to alert on your post. Matariki Jan 2013 #32

Not until/unless the human race becomes much, much more evolved. Bake Jan 2013 #16

I think I understand your meaning marions ghost Jan 2013 #17

No we won't. Throd Jan 2013 #18

lol closeupready Jan 2013 #22

Maybe someday we'll look back at Che Guevara that same way too. Dr. Strange Jan 2013 #24

Bravo Dr. Strange! Puzzledtraveller Jan 2013 #26

I found that avatar a bit puzzling myself. Throd Jan 2013 #30

Actually I'm going back to it. Hugabear Jan 2013 #38

lol. anyone who can't see the inherent and blatant hypocrisy that you're exhibiting cali Jan 2013 #40

you are giving me whiplash, my friend quinnox Jan 2013 #42

Apples and oranges, but I'm sure you know that Hugabear Jan 2013 #36

Awesome. Dr. Strange Jan 2013 #41

hit.nail.head Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #39

I think you mean well, and I get your point, but NO Demo_Chris Jan 2013 #28

this is disgusting WooWooWoo Jan 2013 #29

I never said 'black people' Hugabear Jan 2013 #34

oh I think people understand that you and others like you feel that way cali Jan 2013 #35

FREE THE GUNS! GIVE THEM THE RIGHT TO VOTE!!! slackmaster Jan 2013 #33