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Gun Control & RKBA

kudzu22

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7. They say "homicides" hoping you'll hear "murders"

Reply to tortoise1956 (Original post)

Tue Jan 10, 2017, 01:07 PM

Jan 2017

This is the same reason they love the phrase "gun deaths" - which people take to mean murders but also include self-defense shootings, accidents and suicides.

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