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In reply to the discussion: Attn: American Gun Lovers - The Blessings of Civilization Are Required! [View all]ellisonz
(27,711 posts)28. Well then I don't understand your charge that "it borders on ToS violation on several counts."
Appreciate sarcasm. It's healthy.
As 157 DU members agree, "no matter what the hell your organization says a freaking assault weapon does not make for good quail hunting!"
A hunting rifle in the hands of a permitted hunter can probably be loosely considered a tool, but the idea that weapons like these: http://www.democraticunderground.com/117216372#post21 - are tools is ludicrous - they are weapons of death and mayhem unrelated to any usage but that of war. I don't see how distributing all kinds of weapons to those who aren't using them for a sporting purpose is anything other than a militarization of society that as Hoyt would say is "pollution."
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Attn: American Gun Lovers - The Blessings of Civilization Are Required! [View all]
ellisonz
Feb 2012
OP
and yet my thread was locked for questions regarding the same issue....
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#37
uhm .... no, THE HOST LOCKED my thread and told me to go to META to discuss a jury verdict
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#40
in public forum when a PM would have sufficed ... of course that it your right and indeed, it is my
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#49
If the bad guy was a active mass murdering child molesting arsonist rapist home invader?
Remmah2
Feb 2012
#15
Well then I don't understand your charge that "it borders on ToS violation on several counts."
ellisonz
Feb 2012
#28
That is just a shotgun, what difference does it make that it has plastic instead of wood?
rl6214
Feb 2012
#100
"But I'm sure many folks would be happy to sell firearms to anyone with the cash to buy them."
ellisonz
Feb 2012
#81
Probably because there is no concerted effort to strip people of their hammers.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#50
"And now we will pound our swords into plowshares and proceed with peace." - Cincinnatus
ellisonz
Feb 2012
#99
The fact that the US with its lax gun laws has by far the highest homicide rates
DanTex
Feb 2012
#83
Hammers probably kill more people each year than the gun in your cartoon.
Atypical Liberal
Feb 2012
#55
Clames, I have to disagree ... I find all those tools beautiful in their own right. I appreciate
Tuesday Afternoon
Feb 2012
#26