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In reply to the discussion: I now see the point of the RKBA emphasis on mental illness & not gun control laws [View all]Recursion
(56,582 posts)1. It was already illegal for a 20 year old to have a handgun.
What "it's about" is the fact that a lot of us don't believe gun control laws will actually make guns more difficult to acquire in any meaningful way.
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I now see the point of the RKBA emphasis on mental illness & not gun control laws [View all]
bongbong
Dec 2012
OP
Let me grant that point entirely: guns are completely evil and only useful for killing people
Recursion
Dec 2012
#7
Um, are you saying that speed limits actually prevent people from speeding? You obviously
bayareamike
Dec 2012
#52
You do realize you're advocating for the US to have Connecticut's gun laws, right?
Recursion
Dec 2012
#11
Well, I was reserve, not Guard, and since I am law-abiding DC resident I don't own a weapon
Recursion
Dec 2012
#30
We should wait until there are 600m guns here, and then think about limits.
Warren Stupidity
Dec 2012
#32
Because I don't want to see honest law abiding people being afraid to live in
former-republican
Dec 2012
#36
This family could afford all the mental health help they wanted. It didn't stop the GUNS.
Squinch
Dec 2012
#4
+1. If the family didn't have guns, it wouldn't have been this kind of execution style slaughter nt
riderinthestorm
Dec 2012
#47
If you think guns MAKE you safe, you're wrong, because you'll devalue other things that will make
patrice
Dec 2012
#53
Amazing how it's the only other option to confiscating/re-registering WMD..
libdem4life
Dec 2012
#63