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yagotme

(4,010 posts)
27. Barely got past your first line.
Mon Mar 28, 2022, 03:59 PM
Mar 2022

"No one is advocating for removing all firearms." Well, yes, they have. Here's one:
“If I could have gotten 51 votes for an outright ban, picking up every one of them, ‘Mr. and Mrs. America, turn em all in,’ I would have done it,”
Sen. Feinstein, 1995, interview on 60 minutes, in response to 1994 AWB.
1974: National Coalition to Ban Handguns. Quite the name of an organization. Maybe some took them seriously.

"I have never used the 'one life' argument so please don't put words in my mouth (or in my posts)." Well, yes, you did bring up the "one life" phrase.
"You 'think' one life saved by DGU justifies keeping DGUs legal." Your post #21.

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Seems a bit excessive Buzz cook Mar 2022 #1
Would it have been less excessive had he been robbing a Neiman Marcus? Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #4
How frequently are people killed by armed robbers? Buzz cook Mar 2022 #16
I'm not sure of the likelihood of a "typical" robber injuring or killing their victim(s). Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #17
And if the robber were Buzz cook Mar 2022 #18
Once he is no longer a threat, the judicial process takes over. Dial H For Hero Mar 2022 #19
And how threatening? Buzz cook Mar 2022 #23
Jurisdictions may vary in the answer to these questions. Lucid Dreamer Mar 2022 #24
Well that's an easy fix DashOneBravo Mar 2022 #7
Isn't that what the robber was there with a gun to threaten to do? LiberatedUSA Mar 2022 #10
As the kids now say bottomofthehill Mar 2022 #2
As of yesterday . . . AndyS Mar 2022 #3
I infer those are year to date numbers. discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #5
I'd say something that can be verified. Otherwise it's just opinion and opinions are AndyS Mar 2022 #6
Hell, I had a Defensive Crossbow Use The Mouth Mar 2022 #8
I'd have to agree but... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #9
The Gun Violence Archive uses AndyS Mar 2022 #11
re: "...what else is there?" discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #12
"What else" referrs to what to base AndyS Mar 2022 #13
Yes, I know that "what else" referred to. discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #14
I'm sorry, I can't let this go. AndyS Mar 2022 #15
Replies discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #20
I give up. AndyS Mar 2022 #21
Can we just agree that... discntnt_irny_srcsm Mar 2022 #22
Question... yagotme Mar 2022 #25
Self defense has always been legal in the home and out of it. AndyS Mar 2022 #26
Barely got past your first line. yagotme Mar 2022 #27
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