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In reply to the discussion: A law abiding gun owner was responsible for Newtown. [View all]geckosfeet
(9,644 posts)54. Wow. Talk about barking up the wrong tree.
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I agree. We live in a gun culture, and all of its enablers are complicit in these senseless deaths.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#6
We've had all of those things you just listed in our society for a very long time.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#11
It's hard to get people to accept anything but the most obvious & direct connections between
patrice
Jan 2013
#8
I want to respect gun owners' rights as much as possible. For that to happen, they need to
patrice
Jan 2013
#33
Agreed. Ban it. Get yourself a big stick and tie a butter knife to the end of it.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#43
Amendments have been repealed before. That pesky one doesn't make a lot of sense today.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#20
My car is registered and insured and I have to renew my driver's license on a regular basis.
Chorophyll
Jan 2013
#46
You do not need a registration and insurance for a car if it does not go on public roads.
hack89
Jan 2013
#56
Yep, she certainly was, as was the lack of real control, which allows unfettered access to such
jmg257
Jan 2013
#61
Doesn't REALLY matter what HIS motive was now does it? As it pertains to this conversation?
jmg257
Jan 2013
#67
Waaaaa. We weren't talking about root cause. We were talking about how his Mom's guns
jmg257
Jan 2013
#72
Not as it relates to this thread, which deals with responsibility in how he got the guns.
jmg257
Jan 2013
#71
Hmm...but he didn't steal someone else's guns did he? So who's guns did he steal?
jmg257
Jan 2013
#68
Yep - so just maybe NOT owning them would have turned out MUCH better for her, him
jmg257
Jan 2013
#83
Agreed...except that traffic accident fataties don't surpass gun related deaths by much
jmg257
Jan 2013
#101
Its actually talked about quite a bit. And only a very small percentage are accidents.
jmg257
Jan 2013
#105