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In reply to the discussion: so people didn't get my post about guns [View all]DanTex
(20,709 posts)51. What has changed in the last 150 years? Is that really your question?
I'm not sure what you mean by "until recently". Gun violence has been a serious problem for decades. It's not like it just started a few years ago...
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Depends on if you subscribe to Scalia or Souter/Breyer/Ginsburg/Stevens school of thought
Major Nikon
Dec 2012
#33
You've got that right. Former Justice Stevens did all but come right out and say this
byeya
Dec 2012
#35
Mustard gas has never been in general use by civilians, though it is easy to make
ProgressiveProfessor
Dec 2012
#39
Because we don't want to look at the source of the problem. Because ranting about a simplistic
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#23
Thanks. My real worry is that the outrage of the moment will instigate actions that will destroy
Egalitarian Thug
Dec 2012
#54
The only thing on Friday the handgun ban maybe would have stopped was the suicide
Marrah_G
Dec 2012
#46