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In reply to the discussion: Gun Violence Is a Full-Blown National Crisis [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)46. And there you go, almost as if from a script...
Last edited Fri Jun 3, 2016, 03:47 PM - Edit history (1)
You are happy for thousands of kids to continue to die each year so that you can have access to a gun.
And there you go, almost as if from a script, attributing a sentiment to me which I have not expressed, because I find your solutions unacceptable.
Did Katie teach you that?
I am an anti-gun extremist aka a normal person everywhere but America.
Because every country other than America bans all guns? Like I said before, your grasp on the subject matter is weak at best.
You obviously can't stop crime...
So your solution is to make possession of a gun...a crime?
Do you even read what you write?
...but by removing 300,000,000 guns off the streets...
You mean removing them from peoples homes and gun safes, right? So dishonest.
I see no harm in that tradeoff.
Of course you don't. You're an anti-gun ideologue extremist.
Because I value 30k Americans live a year more than you having a gun.
Me having a gun doesn't cost 30k lives annually. The bad decisions of individuals does.
You keep barking up the wrong tree.
Has it ever occurred to you, that if your cause was just and righteous, you wouldn't have to engage in dishonesty or have to falsely attribute to others sentiments that have not expressed, or misrepresent the positions of others, to win the argument?
Because it has occurred to me and everyone else.
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It is in some neighborhoods. 68 people were shot Memorial Day weekend in Chicago alone
lostnfound
Jun 2016
#4
Any attempt at "confiscating them all and locking them up" would kill more people...
Lizzie Poppet
Jun 2016
#31
Yep, I like my gunz and I will be keeping them for many years. And then when I'm gone my
Waldorf
Jun 2016
#89
This is nothing more than an argumentum ad populum, with a dash of cultural cringe
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#96
Mainstream where your are (or not), it's *still* argumentum ad popularum
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2016
#107
Dozens of people in one region is not the world, so don't try to pass it off as that...
Marengo
Jun 2016
#98
After Sandy Hook Republicans passed laws that make it easier to have more guns around
Botany
Jun 2016
#6
Inner city Milwaukee keeps electing pro-gun Sheriff who asks constituents to buy guns
HereSince1628
Jun 2016
#8
Crimes done with firearms, as well as all violent crime is at the lowest it's been in decades.
Ikonoklast
Jun 2016
#9
Is that what it's really about? Deaths? Or is it just guns you don't like?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jun 2016
#19
The NYT got those numbers from a subreddit called "Guns Are Cool". They are not actual statistics.
Ikonoklast
Jun 2016
#20
I believe the N Hollywood thugs killed no one. But THEY got dead via rifles... from a gun shop.
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#67
Interesting perspective, plus there would be the advantage that no controller...
Marengo
Jun 2016
#110
I wish they would take seriously my theory of the turn-around heat-seeking missile...
Eleanors38
Jun 2016
#74
If I said that LYING about our "epidemic of violence" was a full-blown national crisis......
pablo_marmol
Jun 2016
#113