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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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2. I'm sure that the victims of gun violence

Reply to flamin lib (Reply #1)

Fri Apr 25, 2014, 11:43 AM

Apr 2014

find solace in the knowledge that Second Amendment absolutists believe that more guns are responsible for less crime because the NRA/ALEC/Koch Brothers extreme right-wing gun lobby told them so:

According to the Gun Violence Archive, 5,408 people have been injured by gun violence in America and 3,248 have been killed since Jan. 1, 2014.

http://nocera.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/24/the-gun-report-april-24-2014/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0

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Behold Wayne LaPierre's Nightmarishly Paranoid Vision Of America [View all] billh58 Apr 2014 OP

But but but flamin lib Apr 2014 #1

I'm sure that the victims of gun violence billh58 Apr 2014 #2

some people want to be deceived jimmy the one Apr 2014 #5

Most gun fanciers are as sick/paranoid as L'Pee. Hoyt Apr 2014 #3

Anxiously awaiting the opportunity billh58 Apr 2014 #4