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In reply to the discussion: Well, i've heard much knashing of teeth and renting of fabric fom the Anti gun people. [View all]HooptieWagon
(17,064 posts)60. In addition...
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...
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Well, i've heard much knashing of teeth and renting of fabric fom the Anti gun people. [View all]
OffWithTheirHeads
Jul 2012
OP
I agree, uninformed posters, unrealistic posts, made up numbers, made up stats. n-t
Logical
Jul 2012
#68
Either way, I wouldn't do it to rented fabric. You'll never get your deposit back that way!
petronius
Jul 2012
#5
Yup. My rented fabric just got caught on a nail...it was rented permanently, sad to say.
CTyankee
Jul 2012
#40
In other words - anything less than a total ban on all guns is not worth discussing.
SlimJimmy
Jul 2012
#10
What are you basing this on? Have you administered the MMPI to Holmes? Or are
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#15
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. I didn't realize they were still using that old horse!
MADem
Jul 2012
#31
My mother, who was diagnosed in her early 20s with paranoid schizophrenia, was
coalition_unwilling
Jul 2012
#58
Since when is it the job of gun control advocates to come up with solutions other than gun control?
baldguy
Jul 2012
#35
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
(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