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In reply to the discussion: "NRA talking points"? How about anti-gun talking points? [View all]coldmountain
(802 posts)33. Smells like the EU, Oceania and Japan where guns aren't so welcome and life isn't so cheap
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It would appear you've missed the pinned post at the top of the GD page:
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#4
like the idiots who shoot guns and have their bullets spill over and kill innocent people
samsingh
Dec 2014
#78
We'll just have to ask the next person that mentions "NRA talking points"...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#8
They *apparently* prepared it for the Washington Alliance for Gun Responsibility
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#53
Or possibly because the majority of DUers have decided to stop feeding the gun trolls polluting GD?
Electric Monk
Aug 2013
#15
Now, be kind- that lot tend to get a little frustrated and cranky when someone is progun...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#22
Would that statement also embrace the anti-gun trolls polluting GD?
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#21
If we were on ar-15.com then gun control advocates would be the trolls. We aren't. We're on DU. nt
Electric Monk
Aug 2013
#25
I'm all in favor of sensible gun laws. That's only reasonable, after all.
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#29
This isn't debate, it's playing Gotcha, and you think you did but I think you failed. I'm done here.
Electric Monk
Aug 2013
#30
I'm not *quite* ready to call the idea of "NRA talking points" a pious fraud...
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#14
Smells like the EU, Oceania and Japan where guns aren't so welcome and life isn't so cheap
coldmountain
Aug 2013
#33
Why not get our thinking up and compare ourselves to Japan with almost no gun crime
coldmountain
Aug 2013
#36
Who's scared? The murder rate is half what it was thirty years ago.
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#43
Insulting me seems to makes you feel better about yourself, so insult away.
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#60
That says rather more about the "supporters" of gun control than the NRA, I think.
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#42
But when gun control organises, some DUers make threads like this, implying there's something wrong
muriel_volestrangler
Aug 2013
#72
UPDATE: I found another one, "Voicing Our Values—To Curtail Gun Violence"
friendly_iconoclast
Aug 2013
#57