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In reply to the discussion: Attn: American Gun Lovers - The Blessings of Civilization Are Required! [View all]ellisonz
(27,711 posts)23. Hey spin gazed first...
My point is clear. We live a society that glorifies violence and many people yuck it up. Statistically speaking, I couldn't rule it out that there might be DUers who think there's something romantic about guns and gun violence in general. What do you think? Are guns romantic items that embody freedom and are glorious in their use?
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Attn: American Gun Lovers - The Blessings of Civilization Are Required! [View all]
ellisonz
Feb 2012
OP
and yet my thread was locked for questions regarding the same issue....
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#37
uhm .... no, THE HOST LOCKED my thread and told me to go to META to discuss a jury verdict
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#40
in public forum when a PM would have sufficed ... of course that it your right and indeed, it is my
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#49
If the bad guy was a active mass murdering child molesting arsonist rapist home invader?
Remmah2
Feb 2012
#15
Well then I don't understand your charge that "it borders on ToS violation on several counts."
ellisonz
Feb 2012
#28
That is just a shotgun, what difference does it make that it has plastic instead of wood?
rl6214
Feb 2012
#100
"But I'm sure many folks would be happy to sell firearms to anyone with the cash to buy them."
ellisonz
Feb 2012
#81
Probably because there is no concerted effort to strip people of their hammers.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#50
"And now we will pound our swords into plowshares and proceed with peace." - Cincinnatus
ellisonz
Feb 2012
#99
The fact that the US with its lax gun laws has by far the highest homicide rates
DanTex
Feb 2012
#83
Hammers probably kill more people each year than the gun in your cartoon.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#55
Clames, I have to disagree ... I find all those tools beautiful in their own right. I appreciate
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#26