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Gun Control Reform Activism

flamin lib

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3. Another good guy with a gun. If only the teen had a gun he'd be alive and the father would be dead.

Reply to Human101948 (Original post)

Tue Jan 12, 2016, 12:12 PM

Jan 2016

That is such a better outcome, right? Uh, no. How about if the father didn't have a gun and didn't carry the thoughts of life saving self grandeur that lurk in minds of people in the gun culture? Would that be a better outcome?

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