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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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6. Before the trend to semi-auto pistols, thugs were doing a bang-up job with revolvers...

Reply to Warpy (Reply #2)

Sun Oct 30, 2016, 04:19 PM

Oct 2016

...and at a far higher rate of gun-killings. Semi-auto rifles? Not even on the statistical radar.

Proposals for this ban have little to do with measureable societal problems, but sound like bans of convenience.

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It’s Time to Ban Guns. Yes, All of Them. [View all] discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 OP

This must be fiction... sarisataka Oct 2016 #1

No, it's not. Many city folks feel that way Warpy Oct 2016 #2

Before the trend to semi-auto pistols, thugs were doing a bang-up job with revolvers... Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #6

There are a few things I'm seeing discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 #4

So noted. A continuation of the rawest, anti-intellectual culture war. Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #8

Well, as long as nobody wants to take our guns... beevul Oct 2016 #3

Apparently not any politicians discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 #5

I am not surprised that extremist essays like this still get MSM coverage.... Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #7

I think this article commited mass murder on my synapses... The Polack MSgt Oct 2016 #9

Funny! (and true) nt jonno99 Oct 2016 #10

Ha! pablo_marmol Oct 2016 #11

Written by an American living in Canada, where guns are quite popular. benEzra Nov 2016 #12

So what's wrong with the Canadian media? discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2016 #13

Because Wall Street is in the USA, not Canada... benEzra Nov 2016 #14