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In reply to the discussion: Can you imagine believing this? [View all]gejohnston
(17,502 posts)27. says who?
Not all tools are created equal and some tools should be outlawed - or at least stringently regulated - even if they have legitimate uses. Which handguns do not.
so you are saying individuals don't have the right to defend themselves or even use target pistols in, say, the World Cup? What about the elites?
So this kid should have done nothing other than hope the guy didn't kill her after he raped her?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/20/oklahoma-girl-shoots-home-intruder_n_1992381.html
Do you agree with this regressive elitist?
The problem is, if you are armed, it escalates the situation. It is much better, in my opinion, to be scared, to be frightened, and even if you have to be, to be injured, but to walk away and survive. Youll heal, and you can replace whatever was taken away. Paul Quander, Deputy Mayor for Public Safety and Justice, the District of Columbia
He is now former. BTW, I'm sure none of that applied to his family, since somebody with a gun took his kids to school, went with him and his wife where ever they went.
http://forums.officer.com/t176351/
According to whom? An authoritarian billionare like Bloomberg and his former Monsanto PR executive that keeps Everytown going? Or just the usual regressives?
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If so few are capable of governing themselves how fewer still are capable of governing others?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#53
I also see a daily report of police excesses. What's a unicorn to think now?
Nuclear Unicorn
May 2016
#65
I used to think I should be allowed to own whatever I wanted so long as I kept it to myself ...
marble falls
May 2016
#21