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In reply to the discussion: If you love your guns more than your children, something is wrong [View all]Response to kestrel91316 (Reply #66)
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If you love your guns more than your children, something is wrong [View all]
DainBramaged
Jul 2012
OP
"Grab guns" is an NRA slogan and another right wing complaint without substance...
rfranklin
Jul 2012
#7
Nothing to with crime rates. Ok. Guns have a lot to do with gun deaths, though.
morningfog
Jul 2012
#21
I use mine for entertainment (target practice)at the range. Not for killing. nt
Mojorabbit
Jul 2012
#79
It is fun? My hubby also target practices with his bow. Skeet shooting in the Olympics? nt
Mojorabbit
Jul 2012
#130
If you want to carry your gun everywhere because of a lone nut, something is wrong. n/t
ieoeja
Jul 2012
#60
The problem is theres a whole bushel of "lone nuts". Columbine, VA Tech, Tuscon, FT Hood, etc etc.
Erose999
Jul 2012
#95
Given the circumstances, the patience, and the righteousness of of one's cause, it's not that much.
LanternWaste
Jul 2012
#77
Yep justifying that gun aren't ya............you folks list those every time there is a massacre
DainBramaged
Jul 2012
#48
The point is that if you took his gun away he would still have easy access to other means.
GreenStormCloud
Jul 2012
#87
Nice try, the last thing any one here worries about is taking up their guns against the government
DainBramaged
Jul 2012
#31
I never have, and never will, understand this country's fascination with guns.
Chorophyll
Jul 2012
#37
You pick up your stuff and move. There is no excuse to have to put up with crime, period
DainBramaged
Jul 2012
#120
Also, if you spend your life on Internet forums waiting to defend guns when there's a slaughter
DisgustipatedinCA
Jul 2012
#50
No they didn't actually. The US Bill of Rights is not a bill of human rights...
Fearless
Jul 2012
#62
Sure, keep believing that, oh by the way, can GLBT folks have the right to marry??
DainBramaged
Jul 2012
#58
"If you hate life so much that all you wish for is the chance to shoot your gun at someone ...
patrice
Jul 2012
#63
Most of the pro-gun carry folks I've met are also Pro-Life, until of course the child is born
DainBramaged
Jul 2012
#82
Even if one agrees on certain clearly defined principles/values, FUCKED-UP confused thinking is
patrice
Jul 2012
#84
no, who said they love guns more than children? the op is refering to someone, but doesn't say whom.
arely staircase
Jul 2012
#88
i just figured the op was referencing something people were familiar with. i didn't know it was all
arely staircase
Jul 2012
#105
If you use children as a prop to argue against constitutional rights
4th law of robotics
Jul 2012
#86
Why do you suppose the NRA wanted these 14 people to die and 71 be injured?
4th law of robotics
Jul 2012
#122
When does the NRA and it's hacks stop making excuses for these massacres?
DainBramaged
Jul 2012
#110
Wanna see some real hilarious dodging, ducking, equivocating, and logical pretzel-twisting?
apocalypsehow
Jul 2012
#126
Nope. Are you off your meds? The emotional fixation on figments isn't healthy
TheKentuckian
Jul 2012
#141