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Hoyt

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4. Of course gun sales are up --lots of yahoos out there, mostly buying another gun for their cache.
Sun Aug 19, 2012, 01:28 PM
Aug 2012

Then, there are people responding to the arming up of America as promoted by NRA, right wing militias, right wing gun nuts, and even those right here.

Fact is, we better do something soon to stem the proliferation of guns or it will just make the job that much more difficult in future when there is no choice. In meantime, yahoos that care nothing about society will continue to profit from the arming up of society.
For a second I thought you were talking about Chicago, but you mean the mass shootings shadowrider Aug 2012 #1
Of course you did. You could always self-delete SecularMotion Aug 2012 #2
Nah. Shows hypocrisy in action. No one cares about Chicago, but let it happen somewhere else shadowrider Aug 2012 #6
From your link Reasonable_Argument Aug 2012 #3
Of course gun sales are up --lots of yahoos out there, mostly buying another gun for their cache. Hoyt Aug 2012 #4
Well Reasonable_Argument Aug 2012 #5
Fine, you get to keep your be-loved guns at society's expense. Fine position to take - "Reasonable" Hoyt Aug 2012 #7
The costs of disarming society Reasonable_Argument Aug 2012 #8
+100000000000000000 nt rDigital Aug 2012 #9
Wrong SecularMotion Aug 2012 #11
Well Reasonable_Argument Aug 2012 #14
Re: Forty-seven percent of American adults currently REPORT that they have a gun in their home Trunk Monkey Aug 2012 #16
Wrong Equate Aug 2012 #19
So, are you in favor of the mayors' efforts in Jenoch Aug 2012 #31
I'm in favor of Mayors being able to govern their cities without interference from the NRA. SecularMotion Aug 2012 #34
Can we conclude that you'll support an equal degree of infringement... beevul Aug 2012 #35
Why don't you actually Jenoch Aug 2012 #42
Keep drinking that Brady koolaid. Clames Aug 2012 #33
Are you implying that you fine "law-abiding" gun owners wouldn't turn yours in or pare down to a Hoyt Aug 2012 #15
Yes Reasonable_Argument Aug 2012 #17
So the law abiding gun owning jews in the Warsaw Ghetto should have just turned 'em in? NT Trunk Monkey Aug 2012 #18
Get a life, this is not pre-war Warsaw except in minds of right wingers and a few misguided souls. Hoyt Aug 2012 #21
I'm not implying it, I'm saying it. Equate Aug 2012 #20
Funny how all the newcomers are willing to admit they really aren't so law-abiding. Hoyt Aug 2012 #22
I'm law abiding Equate Aug 2012 #23
Might want to bone up on your.. SQUEE Aug 2012 #26
Yea, I bet a lot of gun culture have leather copies of "The Turner Diaries" in their reading room. Hoyt Aug 2012 #38
If you've actually read Thoreau, did he promote taking up guns against society or government? Hoyt Aug 2012 #39
Such assumptions.. SQUEE Aug 2012 #40
Would love to see your bona-fides and/or what you consider the "struggle." Hoyt Aug 2012 #41
I'm sure you would.. SQUEE Aug 2012 #43
A self confessed former robber has the balls to question whether someone is ""law abiding" ? NT Trunk Monkey Aug 2012 #28
If a law was enacted requiring me to turn in or sell any or all of my guns... krispos42 Aug 2012 #27
What do you consider Jenoch Aug 2012 #32
Funny when my house was being broken into Missycim Aug 2012 #36
"we better do something soon" rl6214 Aug 2012 #25
He'll whine some more about it on the net... friendly_iconoclast Aug 2012 #30
SB 249 was DOA in the Cali legislature. There is no appetite for gun control. nt rDigital Aug 2012 #10
Ain't you heard? We're supposed to elect politicians who're willing to stand up the the NRA shadowrider Aug 2012 #12
It is too bad that the Mass Shootings are NOT reigniting the focus on the fact that Our Tuesday Afternoon Aug 2012 #13
I'm with you on this, I wish Badger and all the others well but this is a political loser rl6214 Aug 2012 #24
And the gun controllers are losing again. N/T GreenStormCloud Aug 2012 #29
destroying rights is never the progressive answer. ileus Aug 2012 #37
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