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In reply to the discussion: Tom Tomorrow reposted this today - in response to the gun-worshippers who are howling today [View all]nxylas
(6,440 posts)13. But other countries with lax gun laws are not as violent
Switzerland, for example. I believe the problem is at least as much a cultural one as a legal one. Paranoia, racism and the fetishisation of gun violence are more to blame than the 2nd amendment, IMO.
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Tom Tomorrow reposted this today - in response to the gun-worshippers who are howling today [View all]
kpete
Jul 2012
OP
Hey, if everyone just carried their own lawn furniture the world would be a
smirkymonkey
Jul 2012
#119
I'll give you my chaise lounge when you pry it from my cold dead hands, you commie!
nilram
Jul 2012
#123
It extends to other countries too now. We must be sure that they have any and all of the guns
patrice
Jul 2012
#3
If you think those stats are directly related to the number of guns in this country
Zoeisright
Jul 2012
#66
Take out muggings from overall gun violence and the numbers should be MUCH lower
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#103
BTW: I didn't imply the opposite AT ALL. In fact, I'm saying shootings are for worse reasons.
Spitfire of ATJ
Jul 2012
#101
I feel like this comment has been cut and pasted all day yesterday. So I will too.
Pholus
Jul 2012
#128
I recommend a comedy movie called "Gunless." An American gunslinger finds himself in Canada,
tclambert
Jul 2012
#74
Not one. A massive study was done that showed that handgun owners, besides being more
apocalypsehow
Jul 2012
#38
How does one determine someone has prevented a mass shooting before it happened?
hughee99
Jul 2012
#46
Right, because institutional authority behind Tuskegee and Japanese internment
closeupready
Jul 2012
#20
The gun lobby is well rehearsed in its rhetoric which to me is used to bully everyone who disagrees
upaloopa
Jul 2012
#23
Yep - this cartoon nails it, right down to how cry-babyish our very own "pro-gun progressives"
apocalypsehow
Jul 2012
#32
Case in point right here. Peddle your complaints to someone who gives a fig; I don't. Thanks. n/t.
apocalypsehow
Jul 2012
#63
Yep: they get all a'flutter with outrage when someone calls them on their BS,
apocalypsehow
Jul 2012
#106