Guns are just the weapon used. (Reply #2)

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Mon Aug 31, 2015, 01:52 AM

delrem (9,688 posts)

2. Guns are just the weapon used.

The problem is a culture that believes violence is a solution, and applies it everywhere, internally and externally.
It's a culture that seems to have no reflective capacity.
No capacity to learn.

Violence has always gotten the USA massive profits.

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29 replies	Author	Time	Post
CNN: Ban guns, end shootings? How evidence stacks up around the world [View all]	villager	Aug 2015	OP
Justmoreofthesamestupidfeignedincredulity...	pipoman	Aug 2015	#1
Guns are just the weapon used.	delrem	Aug 2015	#2
Not sure if you're suggesting that guns aren't the problem or not.	Old Crow	Aug 2015	#4
The problem is Billy the Kid, not his six-gun.	delrem	Aug 2015	#5
I would rather be confronted	U of M Dem	Sep 2015	#17
The problem is that Billy the kid can get a gun	Doctor_J	Sep 2015	#19
Almost unregulated gun market is obviously part of the culture of violence.	delrem	Sep 2015	#23
Exactly. Though guns have their own "Climate Deniers," who -- like their weather-borne brethren	villager	Sep 2015	#25
Handguns and assault weapons are not guaranteed by the 2nd Amendment.	Live and Learn	Aug 2015	#3
Actually, the RKBA IS guaranteed by the Second Amendment...	Eleanors38	Aug 2015	#8
Militias are no longer needed	awoke_in_2003	Sep 2015	#13
Whether or not they are needed doesn't impact the right of the people to keep and bear arms.	Eleanors38	Sep 2015	#14
The 2A protects an individual right	hack89	Sep 2015	#15
Handguns are. Assault weapons are not.	hack89	Aug 2015	#12
Per Wiki, you cited the wrong case:	Live and Learn	Sep 2015	#18
Heller specifically states you have a right to own a handgun for self defense	hack89	Sep 2015	#21
How is that moveable	Duckhunter935	Sep 2015	#29
Heller was rendered by the same court that gave us citizens United. If you think	Doctor_J	Sep 2015	#20
That court also gave us marriage equality	hack89	Sep 2015	#22
This begs the question of whether the US is an "advanced" country	Recursion	Aug 2015	#6
Fuck the NRA blood letters and the politicians that ride with them.	Fred Sanders	Aug 2015	#7
...And the horse you rode in on!	Eleanors38	Aug 2015	#9
It is a gift. And a useful gift, far more than any gun. Jealous?	Fred Sanders	Aug 2015	#10
Of the horse? No.	Eleanors38	Aug 2015	#11
well worth the read. Gun policy like everything else is not settled by argument and evidence but by	yurbud	Sep 2015	#16
K&R	TexasTowelie	Sep 2015	#24
The money quote:	truebluegreen	Sep 2015	#26
But again, you can't trouble Climate Deniers with facts	villager	Sep 2015	#27
^^This^^	salib	Sep 2015	#28

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