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Spider Jerusalem

(21,786 posts)

1. Sorry, but...no.

Reply to appal_jack (Original post)

Wed Jan 9, 2013, 11:27 PM

Jan 2013

The argument that "you should have a gun and know how to use it! Hell, everyone should have a gun! Because BAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN!" is a paranoid and fearful one, and a society where everyone absolutely needs to be armed in the interests of personal safety no longer deserves the label "civilisation".

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Good pro-RKBA perspective from a veteran / police officer [View all] appal_jack Jan 2013 OP

Sorry, but...no. Spider Jerusalem Jan 2013 #1

+1000 baldguy Jan 2013 #4

Just what we need. More gun nuts to protect us from the gun nuts. Major Nikon Jan 2013 #2

Pro-NRA is more like it. Gun company lobbyists can shove it. nt onehandle Jan 2013 #3

What should we citizens do? appal_jack Jan 2013 #8

How many bullets per second do you need to hit your target? nt onehandle Jan 2013 #10

We citizens should suffer a little inconvenience in our hobbies, jmg257 Jan 2013 #12

What a bullshit dystopia. Robb Jan 2013 #5

Unfortunately that's what this country has become. ellisonz Jan 2013 #9

Trained citizens, so what would constitute that, yearly, semi-yearly - monthy... Historic NY Jan 2013 #6

And the solution to drunk driving is more booze... backscatter712 Jan 2013 #7

What? Another gun clown telling us the solution is more guns? With all the NRA jmg257 Jan 2013 #11