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In reply to the discussion: Gun Violence Is a Full-Blown National Crisis [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)62. When confronted falsely attributing to others...
you don't have to say you're happy for all those kids to die, because your actions say all anyone needs to hear. You think that the status quo is grand, and have no interest in any meaningful gun control.
When confronted falsely attributing to others, sentiments they have not expressed, your reaction is to double down and do it again? Color me shocked.
Tell me more, carnac.
Americans - en masse - that includes you - can't be trusted with guns. We know this because of the hundreds of thousands of gun deaths.
Wrong. We know that Americans - en masse - CAN be trusted with guns, and that its a tiny minority that causes the problems.
That's not opinion, that's fact.
It's a shame that you have to lose your deadly toys, but you do, if you want to stop 30K people a year dying.
The people doing the killing AKA people making bad decisions, obviously don't want to stop the 30k people a year dying.
It therefore matters not whether I or anyone else not doing the killing give up our guns or not.
You guys are so coddled in US society that you ACTUALLY BELIEVE that you're not part of the problem, but outside of America people look at you like your basically part of ISIS, playing your part in helping keep guns legal, no matter how many toddlers have their heads blown off... for freedom bro.
I can't help it if people outside America are wrong. And frankly, I don't give one single solitary fuck what people outside of America, particularly the ones that have to show ID to buy plastic dining utensils, think of it.
I am an anti-thousands of kids being shot and dying a year for no good reason ideologue.
No, you're an anti-gun ideologue extremist trying to cammoflage your extremism in in the blood of innocents, while attacking other innocents.
You're a thousands of kids dying can't be solved because America so keep your hands offa my toys ideologue.
Nope. I'm sure it can be solved, but it can not and will not be solved the way you suggest.
As far as I can tell I'm also the only one with any sort of idea about how to low the gun death in America to say 2000 a year instead of 30k.
As far as I can tell, you are only interested in gun bans, no matter what they would or wouldn't achieve.
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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