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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]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)126. Third Doctor
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It is funny how many can think the same mind, even long away from each other. What worked in the late 1700s early 1800s, doesn't work now.. And it is clear as daybreak, that the common use of weapons, as it is today, was nothing like the makers of the constitution had in mind when they wrote the case about a well armed militia to protect the country...
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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