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HooptieWagon

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60. In addition...
Sun Jul 22, 2012, 11:39 AM
Jul 2012

I DID express sorrow for the victims and families on Fri morning, and asked DU ers to withhold their agendas and blame game for a day.
Well, it lasted about 30 minutes before the shreiking "ban all guns" hysteria started here, which was several hours before the religious nuts blamed Hollywood and the RW nuts blamed Obama. About what I expected...

Worst DU weekend ever cthulu2016 Jul 2012 #1
+1 n/t NRaleighLiberal Jul 2012 #3
My "Trash this thread" button has burned out. L0oniX Jul 2012 #61
I agree, uninformed posters, unrealistic posts, made up numbers, made up stats. n-t Logical Jul 2012 #68
Yep. Lizzie Poppet Jul 2012 #69
ACA larwdem Jul 2012 #2
Except it doesn't... pipoman Jul 2012 #12
Uh, yes it does. FarLeftFist Jul 2012 #28
is knashing like gnashing? Sanity Claws Jul 2012 #4
Either way, I wouldn't do it to rented fabric. You'll never get your deposit back that way! petronius Jul 2012 #5
Unintentional hilarity ensued! MADem Jul 2012 #27
Yup. My rented fabric just got caught on a nail...it was rented permanently, sad to say. CTyankee Jul 2012 #40
Hey, I can't spell fot shit but I think my ideas are O.K. OffWithTheirHeads Jul 2012 #6
Your last paragraph in particular is excellent - I completely agree that the petronius Jul 2012 #9
In other words - anything less than a total ban on all guns is not worth discussing. SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #10
Exactly. Can't argue too effectively against rational regulation laws so one lunatica Jul 2012 #16
You mean like the poster below? SlimJimmy Jul 2012 #22
Just leave the gnoshing jews alone... n/t PoliticAverse Jul 2012 #7
I think you may mean 'noshing' pinboy3niner Jul 2012 #56
Knashing is what you do to your knishes. Gnashing is coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #14
Rent-a-jury.com HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #20
Ban automatic and semi-automatic weapos. Clear enough? morningfog Jul 2012 #8
Statements like this are the problem. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #18
I used to think the gun fight was not worth it. Fuck em. Let them go. morningfog Jul 2012 #19
Say goodbye to workers rights HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #38
Its not them. Its YOU. beevul Jul 2012 #55
The banning of semi-autos is a political impossibility. Kaleva Jul 2012 #21
How fucked up is that? morningfog Jul 2012 #23
You are talking about millions of gun owners having to turn in their guns. Kaleva Jul 2012 #29
A hundred million. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #39
That's alot of votes. Kaleva Jul 2012 #49
Make Mental Health Care/Assessment A Priority ChoppinBroccoli Jul 2012 #11
Holmes had every break in life that a kid could ask for. geckosfeet Jul 2012 #13
What are you basing this on? Have you administered the MMPI to Holmes? Or are coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #15
What are you talking about? What is an MMPI? geckosfeet Jul 2012 #17
You make a bunch of grandiose and outlandish claims coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #24
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. I didn't realize they were still using that old horse! MADem Jul 2012 #31
I'm a layperson, but I understand there have been some coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #33
If you click on that boring wiki link, you'll see that you are correct! MADem Jul 2012 #37
My mother, who was diagnosed in her early 20s with paranoid schizophrenia, was coalition_unwilling Jul 2012 #58
Well I am certainly glad there will be a competency hearing nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #30
You are speculating as to the killer's motives. girl gone mad Jul 2012 #42
renDing marybourg Jul 2012 #25
Just don't go renting any Muslin fabric! Arugula Latte Jul 2012 #67
Actually I did nadinbrzezinski Jul 2012 #26
Why did you capitalize just the "A" in "Anti"? Bonobo Jul 2012 #32
Hey, where can you rent fabric? frazzled Jul 2012 #34
Since when is it the job of gun control advocates to come up with solutions other than gun control? baldguy Jul 2012 #35
96% of gun owners do not belong to the NRA. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #41
Do u want to express sorrow for the victims or do u want to rub your guns? samsingh Jul 2012 #36
Get used to repuke president HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #43
Do u have a proposal to bring the kill count down to 0? samsingh Jul 2012 #54
You'll never get it to zero, HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #59
In addition... HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #60
massacres happened before Obama became President so he can't be the cause samsingh Jul 2012 #64
Or insane guy with truck full of fertilizer and diesel fuel. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #65
but the total number of gun deaths or massacres is substantially smal.ler than in the usa. samsingh Jul 2012 #66
Do you understand how much lower homicide rate almost everyother comparable country has? ellisonz Jul 2012 #44
Banning cars will save many more lives than banning guns. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #46
Nuts. n/t ellisonz Jul 2012 #47
33K auto deaths, 12K gun related homicides HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #48
(sigh) no one here can take your guns or prevent you from buying every gun you see DainBramaged Jul 2012 #45
""Ban all guns" aint gonna happen" - then MAKE IT HAPPEN because it IS the solution. sibelian Jul 2012 #50
What about the explosives? Aren't they already banned? Zalatix Jul 2012 #51
Unrec... joeybee12 Jul 2012 #52
I believe in sensible gun laws but I have to say that living sunwyn Jul 2012 #53
So, because a ban on assult weapons won't ... surrealAmerican Jul 2012 #57
Better mental health screening 4th law of robotics Jul 2012 #62
Ban the type of weapon he bought for starters. alarimer Jul 2012 #63
You're not going to ban the weapons he bought. HooptieWagon Jul 2012 #70
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