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In reply to the discussion: What in the hell is wrong with people.A kid back from Afganistan is shot at his own party [View all]PavePusher
(15,374 posts)96. Citing Michael Bellesiles?!?! "My god", indeed.
Last edited Mon Dec 26, 2011, 09:32 PM - Edit history (1)
Here's a tip: If you are going to try to support your claim by citing disgraced authors, you are doing it wrong.
As far as "getting difficult", yes, I am. I actually ask that people support their claims and assertions with evidence. If I didn't, I'd be a Republican. (Joke and stereotype, but I'm sure you get my point.) I stopped taking things on faith far back in grade school. I take some small pride in it, actually.
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What in the hell is wrong with people.A kid back from Afganistan is shot at his own party [View all]
bigdarryl
Dec 2011
OP
Gun control is now the third rail of politics. That's a good thing, as far as I'm concerned.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#2
Oh, I'm not. I think we can count on the absurd Assault Weapon Ban to be in the 2012 platform.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#10
Because we all need fully automatic FAL's to go hunting with an extended mag
nadinbrzezinski
Dec 2011
#22
A Colt SAA can do the same thing when dropped with the hammer down. Why is that funny?
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#35
Of course he shouldn't have done that, it was a violation of every basic gun safety rule.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#44
I don't find them particularly funny, myself. Attractive? That's another matter.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#54
I certainly know that they can do for real. That doesn't mean they're not pretty.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#69
I'm speaking of people's reactions to a method of death, *not* an animal's instincts.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#81
I was replying to someone who brought up the subject of people owning multiple guns, not the OP.
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#14
I would point out that I was responding to someone who used the story to make their own point about
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#67
Dancing in the victim's blood to advance an anti-gun agenda is, however, in good taste? nt
hack89
Dec 2011
#86
I fail to see how showing a picture of my purchase disrespects the victim in any way,
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#66
Of course, 100 guns, for when Obama takes them away you'll have a few left....
DainBramaged
Dec 2011
#41
How is buying a collectable gun that will go in my safe spending money on "death"?
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#47
Exactly!! If we allowed the same gun control that has long been required in every single democracy
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2011
#11
Is Switzerland part of "every single democracy on the face of this Earth without exception"?
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#15
and those guns in Switzerland are very much accounted for, It is ludicrous to imagine that there is
Douglas Carpenter
Dec 2011
#20
Sad, if we have such an organized thing, which is NOT what the Founders
nadinbrzezinski
Dec 2011
#45
I'm certainly not going to melt them down! I plan to start selling them when I retire,
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#57
You've identified what you consider to be a problem. What solution, if any, do you propose?
Abin Sur
Dec 2011
#89