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Nuclear Unicorn

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5. Because the police are useless at best.

Reply to G_j (Reply #3)

Fri Feb 13, 2015, 11:03 AM

Feb 2015

Over 60-precent of gun homicides are committed by people with prior criminal records.

Criminals don't obey the law and the cops don't enforce the law.

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Angry, Armed and White: The Typical Profile Of America's Most Violent Extremists [View all] xchrom Feb 2015 OP

Kicked and recommended a whole bunch! Enthusiast Feb 2015 #1

Oddly, I've mellowed as I've gotten older. Javaman Feb 2015 #2

so why is a man who met tow truck drivers in the street waving a gun G_j Feb 2015 #3

Because the police are useless at best. Nuclear Unicorn Feb 2015 #5

I don't like guns madokie Feb 2015 #4

Nah, it's that "thug" that's the problem ... can't be anyone else gottah shoot them thugs /sarcasm uponit7771 Feb 2015 #6

Also the "parking spot" that was in dispute was a visitor spot, the victims sister was on MSNBC uponit7771 Feb 2015 #7

they misfiled it under "Tea Party," tho MisterP Feb 2015 #8

I see them as angry straight people with guns, cans of gasoline, baseball bats, tire irons.... Bluenorthwest Feb 2015 #9

You left out right wing AgingAmerican Feb 2015 #10