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Emerald Drifter
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Thank you, thank you, thank you Poppa. You walked right into it.....
The common denominator in all of the items you listed that "kill people" is people. People, bad people, uses those items to kill people.
So stop saying guns kill people. Using your own examples, people kill people.
The common denominator in all of the items you listed that "kill people" is people. People, bad people, uses those items to kill people.
So stop saying guns kill people. Using your own examples, people kill people.
Lake View Too
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Lake View Too
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Here is my opinion on gun control legislation : I think the government should pass some measures of gun control, if only for symbolic reasons, just to show that perhaps our government* gives a f**k about guns and the mental health of this country. NO, THEY WILL NOT SEIZE YOUR GUNS. (I would have thought the mental health of the nation's gun owners wouldn't require that statement, but I wasn't sure.) Perhaps, it just means gun registration. Perhaps it just means a ban on assault rifles. Perhaps it just means keeping mentally disturbed people from easily buying weapons. I don't think for a moment any of the measures would seriously reduce the gun violence in this country, but just perhaps it might be a minuscule start in a campaign to change the mass paranoia in this country. I know it's a bit naïve to bring up "cigarette smoking" and "seat belt use", but our collective consciousness about these two deadly things were successfully changed. We don't have to live in a society where guns are OK and even worshipped. It's OK to try to put a sever social stigma on guns. Really.
Emerald Drifter
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And that nuke will stay in a submarine, missle launcher, silo, until a person decides to use it.
And a gun will stay in a closet/safe/on the ground/wherever until the end of time unless a person picks it up, charges it, and (hopefully never) uses it against another person.
You admit in your own post above that the measures you suggest, gun registration, battle rifle ban, crazy person ban from acquiring firearms, won't work. Passing laws that will only make things worse will not help the problem, but "we gotta do something", right?
Pick ANY city across our country that has a de facto firearm ban, and I will show you much higher violent crime with guns involved. Shall we start with Chicago??
Lake View Too
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I'm talking about just one degree of change in the collective mental health of this nation led by a government that shows one inkling of giving a f**k.
Emerald Drifter
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Since participants in this forum have had to endure 2 years of "Russian meddling", "Russian influence of our elections" because, you know, Hillary did not lose because she was/is an inferior candidate. And in spite of every pollster, MSM talking head, predicting a HRC landslide, she still lost. (Darn Electoral College).
If you REALLY care about election influencing, and outright vote rigging, please listen to this liberal professor lay it out for you how Google, Facebook, etc. can and plan to influence the 2020 election. Do you agree or disagree with this professor?
If you REALLY care about election influencing, and outright vote rigging, please listen to this liberal professor lay it out for you how Google, Facebook, etc. can and plan to influence the 2020 election. Do you agree or disagree with this professor?
Leader of the Banned
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They can only influence the election against Trump's opponent through the proliferation of absurd conspiracy theories similar to pizzagate, Clinton body count, Clinton's health etc.. False negative portrayals of the president are almost non-existent because the president himself is the boisterous messenger of all the reasons no decent person should consider voting for him.
PoppaJ
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Are you really this ignorant?
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