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In reply to the discussion: This country will never be able to control guns and there is only one inevitable conclusion... [View all]TeddyR
(2,493 posts)127. Never understood why someone would block the views of those they disagree with
Children do that, and Republicans, but honest discussion (and disagreement) is what this country is founded on.
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This country will never be able to control guns and there is only one inevitable conclusion... [View all]
luvspeas
Jul 2015
OP
We can't throw simply throw the baby out with the bathwater over a few outliers.
procon
Jul 2015
#113
Dixie Swastika. NRA Swastika. Both coming down. It is only logical. 320 million guns. Irrefutable.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#109
Speaking of logic, you seem to be lacking it completly in this post..
virginia mountainman
Jul 2015
#120
You were amusing, now you are Full Ignore #39...you earned it with one too many personal attacks.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#121
Since it will spare me the chants of "Vile NRA", "Dixie Swastika", et cetera, add me!
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#124
LOL! I am not the one making up words, and ignoring basic grammar..
virginia mountainman
Jul 2015
#136
Australia also does not permit AK-47 style assault-type weapons to be so freely and easily purchased.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#33
Australia also bans pump shotguns, and is now talking about banning lever-actions
benEzra
Jul 2015
#111
The 1994 Feinstein law banned no guns, and actually tripled sales of AR's and AK's after 1994.
benEzra
Jul 2015
#116
Yes. Taking down the Dixie Swastika and making it radioactive is an excellent and topical example.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#122
If you think that's a significant issue then keep at it and demand a greater effort
procon
Jul 2015
#126
Not sure what was "won." Subsequent critics have contended the "turn-in" rate is much smaller
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#41
The problem with Australia's crime rate: It shares that phenomenon with many countries...
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#69
Except you're fighting to ban many of the *least* powerful and *least* misused.
benEzra
Jul 2015
#117
Constitutional amendment giving all citizens the right to free body armor and helmets
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#3
I don't see how the right to life conflicts with the right to bear arms.
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#36
The right of sane people to bear arms = okay. Right of insane people to bear arms = problem.
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#88
To me, the community of gun owners ought to be responsible for figuring out a solution
lostnfound
Jul 2015
#94
My goodness! With all respect, where have you been? Virtually every shooting that
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#42
A british criminologist found out that guns are neither solution to nor cause of gun-violence.
DetlefK
Jul 2015
#7
The US is already adapted to mass shootings. IMO, a mass shooting per week is not far away.
AlinPA
Jul 2015
#68
The Swiss Constitution grants an explicit right to individual firearm ownership. n/t
Shamash
Jul 2015
#21
I think there is an authentic and on the whole positive quality to individual(ism)...
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#140
The Controller over-reliance on cartoons and comedians makes it very hard to take them seriously.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#20
A safer post would have been to stick to references to penis-length & paranoia.
Eleanors38
Jul 2015
#44
Oh my. It seems she is laboring under the misconceptions that I am a man and the alerter.
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#79
I still say the genie is out of the bottle and we are headed toward one inevitable conclusion
luvspeas
Jul 2015
#22
Murder rate is trending down with 300+ million guns in play, so why exactly are you doom and gloomin
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#24
Are 320 million guns and easy access to them a proximal cause of mass murders? A real head scratcher, eh?
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#31
Culture warriors tend to be rather tone-deaf when it comes to messaging
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#100
If Fred's ignorance about guns was water, California's drought would be over by now. n/t
Shamash
Jul 2015
#51
Good for you! Please support a national gun buyback program, it is clearly a vital component of control.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#62
"Please support a national gun buyback program, it is clearly a vital component of control."
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#80
"A real head scratcher, eh?" Not for those that don't believe in animism...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#63
"Mockery", and derivatives thereof, is indeed one word gun-lovers understand well and richly deserve to know the meaning of.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#39
"Maybe 100 bullet drum mags"... because you just don't know what? That 100 bullet drums are insane?!
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#72
The gibes of the politically ineffectual carry little or no sting...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#47
Glad to know that mass killings were unknown before guns were invented
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#66
Conflating the vile NRA leadership with Wall Street is nothing a liberal would do, even in jest.
Fred Sanders
Jul 2015
#85
"Was it over when the Vile NRA bombed Pearl Harbor?" I am *so* going to steal that...
friendly_iconoclast
Jul 2015
#99