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In reply to the discussion: If you love your guns more than your children, something is wrong [View all]TheKentuckian
(24,947 posts)136. Do these stalking horses and strawmen have names?
Are you aware of some prevalent issue with people buying guns rather than taking their kid to the doctor or getting them shoes? Do you have some stats or is this just high pitched emotional crying out?
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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