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Fri Jan 13, 2012, 12:32 PM

ileus (9,205 posts)

53. Each story is a chance to learn and think, we need more secnario based threads here.

We could compare tactics and responses.

Every story (with enough detail) is worthy of discussion, lives are on the line.

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14 year old uses a shotgun to kill a man... [View all]	virginia mountainman	Jan 2012	OP
Too bad he couldn't nail the other 3 as well...	Wistful Vista	Jan 2012	#1
Sharing the fantasy sells guns doesn't it?	applegrove	Jan 2012	#2
what?!	virginia mountainman	Jan 2012	#3
I'm sure it did happen. Spreading this gun porn around is getting people to fantasize	applegrove	Jan 2012	#6
What are you talking about??	virginia mountainman	Jan 2012	#7
gun porn? or is it spreading how common home invasions are becoming?	ileus	Jan 2012	#8
A cycle?	E6-B	Jan 2012	#11
The cycle of scaring people into fantasizing so they'll buy a gun.	applegrove	Jan 2012	#12
What completes the supposed cycle?	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#13
The fantasy is to shoot a burglar. Then you get a gun. Then you are made	applegrove	Jan 2012	#14
ok, let me get this straight..	virginia mountainman	Jan 2012	#15
Nope. You have a fantasy "to" shoot a burglar. Then "you" get a gun. It is clear enough.	applegrove	Jan 2012	#16
....tick, tick, tick, tick, tick...	applegrove	Jan 2012	#17
I don't vote GOP.	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#18
Is a "fantacy" a kind of fancy fantasy?	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#21
My bad.	applegrove	Jan 2012	#22
I believe that under the Canadian laws that some posters here	oneshooter	Jan 2012	#49
Odd	E6-B	Jan 2012	#35
Are you saying there is no element of fantasizing in gun ownership... that gun owners or potential	applegrove	Jan 2012	#36
Just to be clear	Union Scribe	Jan 2012	#38
I am accusing some DUers of fantasizing about using a gun, to defend themselves, to kill someone,	applegrove	Jan 2012	#41
No, you're using the word fantasize, which has	Union Scribe	Jan 2012	#42
I guess I fantasize about...	We_Have_A_Problem	Jan 2012	#43
Prejudice view	E6-B	Jan 2012	#55
Well, who are they?	SteveW	Jan 2012	#61
Oh, allright, I'll fess up, I DO have a gun fantasy...	BiggJawn	Jan 2012	#57
Well....	We_Have_A_Problem	Jan 2012	#50
But...	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#19
Crony capitalism. Mexico is 1/3 rich and 2/3 poor. The usa will be that way some day	applegrove	Jan 2012	#20
So 2/3 of Mexicans cannot afford a firearm?	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#23
2/3 of mexicans can't afford much. That is what poor means. Why so many get into crime and the	applegrove	Jan 2012	#24
I know what "poor" means.	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#25
This message was self-deleted by its author	applegrove	Jan 2012	#26
This message was self-deleted by its author	applegrove	Jan 2012	#27
I am saying guns are being used to build up crony capitalism & the GOP in the USA.	applegrove	Jan 2012	#31
since more Finnish	gejohnston	Jan 2012	#33
And I'm saying "Nonsense."	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#37
Well, those "wedge issues like guns" were promulgated by....? nt	SteveW	Jan 2012	#62
What I want to know is...	beevul	Jan 2012	#29
Fantasy?	E6-B	Jan 2012	#28
I am talking about all the stories about gun justice that are posted here ad nausium. To create	applegrove	Jan 2012	#30
Please...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Jan 2012	#47
Each story is a chance to learn and think, we need more secnario based threads here.	ileus	Jan 2012	#53
1st Amendment	E6-B	Jan 2012	#56
What an odd world you live in.	ManiacJoe	Jan 2012	#32
Then why is it lauded in the gungeon every time there is an example? The NRA is trying to change	applegrove	Jan 2012	#34
Why?	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#39
What is the "it" you think is "lauded in the gungeon"?	Union Scribe	Jan 2012	#40
Exactly right.	ManiacJoe	Jan 2012	#59
You have the right idea, just the wrong classification.	ManiacJoe	Jan 2012	#60
If someone has already been proven to be a home-invading {burglar, robber, rapist, etc.}	Wistful Vista	Jan 2012	#63
That isn't a cycle, it is a process.	Callisto32	Jan 2012	#44
And this cycle can be proven with real data? nt	hack89	Jan 2012	#46
You're kidding right?	We_Have_A_Problem	Jan 2012	#48
Just another rude toter I guess. nt	hack89	Jan 2012	#54
And Democratic positions are what makes people afraid the gov't will take your gun away...	krispos42	Jan 2012	#58
Are you claiming that this didn't actually happen?	Straw Man	Jan 2012	#4
So it didn't happen? I knew it was too good to be true.	ileus	Jan 2012	#5
Hyperbole driven umbrage wont get you very far.	rrneck	Jan 2012	#9
roll over and play dead? no wait...run out the back door!	ileus	Jan 2012	#10
I don't know about you...	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Jan 2012	#45
let the neighborhood find out you have pain meds...	ileus	Jan 2012	#51
why didn't i think of that ;) n/t	discntnt_irny_srcsm	Jan 2012	#52

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