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In reply to the discussion: Howard Dean is right. This is the year that gunfuckery begins to end. [View all]jack_krass
(1,009 posts)65. Incredibly over-simplistic thinking
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Howard Dean is right. This is the year that gunfuckery begins to end. [View all]
onehandle
Jun 2016
OP
You mean, "But it was a Sig Sauer Whateverthefuck!" isn't going to cut it anymore?
BeyondGeography
Jun 2016
#1
Action is needed, some people do not need to have weapons in their possession.
Thinkingabout
Jun 2016
#2
because this right is predicated on thousands of innocent deaths annually, needs are not.
LanternWaste
Jun 2016
#45
Cause people own devices that kill massive amounts of people? no.. that's silly on its face
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#46
What's silly on its face is your denial of reality- see Caetano v. Massachusetts
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#64
But they cannot be banned entirely, which is what you've advocated elsewhere:
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#68
Every time there's another mass shooting, we get closer to the gun humper utopia.
Crunchy Frog
Jun 2016
#37
What's even more naive is to think long overdue action won't matter at all. nt
villager
Jun 2016
#35
Few upstanding governments aided in people killing each other randomly in massive numbers
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#48
Nothing like 'solving' a moral panic with hastily-conceived ideas...
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#39
Unfortunately for you, the Supreme Court just put the kibosh on your idea, 8-0
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#41
No one was mentally ill for this tragedy, although they probably will be now:
blue neen
Jun 2016
#44
Devices meant to kill massive amounts of humans have increased the number of mass killings though
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#52
I didn't make the claim that most of the mass killings post ban was made with hand guns....
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#56
Then I stand corrected, it was high capacity magazines seeing the ban was mostly costmetic
uponit7771
Jun 2016
#61
I shoot with doctors, lawyers, professors- a whole slew of educated professional people like me
hack89
Jun 2016
#14
So basically you think all of us out here in Flyover Country are subhuman scum. Got it.
Odin2005
Jun 2016
#28
THEM? How, pray tell, do you spot "THEM"? I don't wear strange clothes. I don't talk funny.
cherokeeprogressive
Jun 2016
#30