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In reply to the discussion: A gun has two uses: To kill, and to threaten to kill. [View all]el_bryanto
(11,804 posts)20. That is probably true, but that's not what the author of the article states
I will say article is worth reading - it just overstates its case in this instance.
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Actually, that's $1.7 trillion according to the Stockholm International Peace
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2013
#14
ok - but do you believe that we spend more money than that on personal guns? Really?
el_bryanto
Feb 2013
#16
Can one target shoot with 'blanks'? I thought I read somewhere that you can.
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2013
#29
Really? Like the guy who killed the young man who pulled into his driveway by mistake?
sinkingfeeling
Feb 2013
#38
You can also beat people with them, should you be in a non-lethal frame of mind.
Jester Messiah
Feb 2013
#22
There would have been a time when I would have vehemently argued with the author--
ScreamingMeemie
Feb 2013
#43