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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]YellowRubberDuckie
(19,736 posts)99. You aren't going to find a lot of outrage here.
Most people here don't think you should support the troops anymore, as if the simple soldier can do anything more than follow orders. Someone's probably going to tell you they deserved it for volunteering to do what he did in Afghanistan.
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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