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guillaumeb

(42,649 posts) Thu Nov 2, 2017, 05:48 PM Nov 2017

Top Bump Stock Manufacturer To Resume Sales Of Deadly Device After GOP Congress Refuses To Act

From the article:

Emboldened by a spineless and NRA-owned Republican Party, a leading manufacturer of deadly and totally unnecessary bump stocks plans to resume selling the device that helped Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock mow down hundreds of concertgoers last month.

http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/01/top-bump-stock-manufacturer-resume-sales-deadly-device-gop-congress-refuses-act.html

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Top Bump Stock Manufacturer To Resume Sales Of Deadly Device After GOP Congress Refuses To Act (Original Post) guillaumeb Nov 2017 OP

They only denounce killings by non whites SummerSnow Nov 2017 #1

Of course. guillaumeb Nov 2017 #2

20-some dead kids and nothing was done. Something seriously wrong with us and our society . . . Journeyman Nov 2017 #3

Have you ever heard the Ballad of Charles Whitman Riley? guillaumeb Nov 2017 #4

He picked up his guns and walked to school billh58 Nov 2017 #7

Kinky Friedman has a bizarre streak. guillaumeb Nov 2017 #9

The better to billh58 Nov 2017 #5

My feeling is that many gun owners saw the movie "Red Dawn" and thought it guillaumeb Nov 2017 #6

Fear sells guns and billh58 Nov 2017 #8

SummerSnow

(12,608 posts)

1. They only denounce killings by non whites

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 05:53 PM

Nov 2017

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

2. Of course.

Reply to SummerSnow (Reply #1)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 05:55 PM

Nov 2017

Non-white killing is terror, white killing is Second Amendment activity. Or the price of freedom.

Journeyman

(15,484 posts)

3. 20-some dead kids and nothing was done. Something seriously wrong with us and our society . . .

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:01 PM

Nov 2017

Intrepid souls can still climb to the top of the University of Texas Tower. Quite a sight from such a height. A clear field for blocks around.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

4. Have you ever heard the Ballad of Charles Whitman Riley?

Reply to Journeyman (Reply #3)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:09 PM

Nov 2017

Kinky Friedman

billh58

(6,655 posts)

7. He picked up his guns and walked to school

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #4)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:24 PM

Nov 2017

They'd never seen an Eagle Scout so cruel

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

9. Kinky Friedman has a bizarre streak.

Reply to billh58 (Reply #7)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:25 PM

Nov 2017

Who are we to say the boy's insane?

billh58

(6,655 posts)

5. The better to

Reply to guillaumeb (Original post)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:19 PM

Nov 2017

stand-your-ground against phantom threats and innocent victims.

guillaumeb

(42,649 posts)

6. My feeling is that many gun owners saw the movie "Red Dawn" and thought it

Reply to billh58 (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:23 PM

Nov 2017

was history.

That, and the equally lunatic "fear of a repressive government taking my guns" scenario that is also very evident among some gun owners.

billh58

(6,655 posts)

8. Fear sells guns and

Reply to guillaumeb (Reply #6)

Thu Nov 2, 2017, 06:25 PM

Nov 2017

stokes red necked egos.

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