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   ossiningaling said, 5 months ago

   Not according to the NVGA. They still think it’s rifles.
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   ahab said, 5 months ago

   20 Children would disagree if they could. The LAST thing they saw was a weapon,thanks NRA.
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   Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

   Pickup trucks kill too. In Tennesee or Kentucky, I forget which, a drunk driver plowed his truck into the fuel tank of a school bus. Many kids died and others survived but were badly burned. But motor vehicles, movies and video games were not designed to kill. Guns are designed to kill.
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   Mike Rossi said, 5 months ago

   Of all the cartoons I’ve seen since the event in Newton, CT this one – for me anyway – really hits the spot. I grew up on a farm in the Midwest so I’m familiar with guns. Even I was shocked at how powerful a Colt .45 handgun was when a friend of mine and I went out to target practice with this Dad’s army issue service revolver when we were in our early 20’s (I’ll skip the part about how the Dad got the gun). The point is, that handgun sounded like a cannon with the recoil nearly tearing my thumb off. Hollywood & video games have so glamorized the use of firearms and violence in general that most people have NO IDEA how unrealistic it is to see Ahhhnold blasting away. Or what a body looks like with a hole ripped through it by a flying piece of lead! Killing another human being is NOT a game. I believe more and more people are becoming desensitized to it through the portrayal of killing and firearms through movies and games.
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   ruff said, 5 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   Motor vehicles have a useful purpose. Most video games and movies do not. Same for most guns.
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   Tigger said, 5 months ago

   @Clark Kent

   The Driver of the Truck was drunk, ergo Alcoholic Beverages Killed the children, Time to halt the manufacture, distribution, and selling of all Alcoholic Beverages.
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   Tigger said, 5 months ago

   @ruff

   Yes, the useful purpose is to kill and maim people. Guns have a useful purpose, to protect you against Criminals.
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   Tue Elung-Jensen said, 5 months ago

   If that was the case we would see far more killings all around the world.
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   MortyForTyrant said, 5 months ago

   I just heard Joe Scarborough make the argument that movies and video games should not be introduced in a violent culture like yours. Well, who does he think makes these movies and games? Santa’s elves?

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   These are products of your violent culture and are – of course – being consumed by you violent people. Case in point: “Call of Duty” and “Battlefield Vietnam”. There is no German computer game “Ruf zum Dienst” and there is no Vietnamese game that would translate into BFV. Only the Americans need to glorify their wars this way, even when they lost them.

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   You might start by stopping to call every soldier a “hero”. There is one on trial right now for doing – essentially – the same as in Newtown, just in Afghanistan. Is that a hero? I don’t think so…

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   But I believe it’s too late for you, as a nation, as people, as a culture. You are hell bound, hope you brought ice. These atrocities will continue and the world will turn it’s back on you in disgust. McDonald’s franchises will find that they suddenly no longer meet local ordinances, airlines will stop servicing your country, tankers no longer reach your harbors. You wanna be barbarians? GO AHEAD!
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 5 months ago

    @Mike Rossi

    A good story, nicely told. Thank you!
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    My dad had a .22 (he had a luger in the closet, no bullets thankfully, considering all of the children’s ahnds all over it)
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    When I was in first grade (1962) my dad “taught us how to shoot” (we lived in a secluded rural spot) with some bottles upu on the rise in front of the hill.
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    I remember bragging to Mrs Conroy (my first grade teacher) that I had shot a gun over the weekend and she about hit the ceiling! The message from Mrs. Conroy (who was about 106 years old at the time) was shooting guns is not cool!
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    What a change today from those “good old days!”
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    Dr Lou said, 5 months ago

    Remarkably stupid cartoon….can’t say I know of one instance where a video game opened fire on a player.
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    lonecat said, 5 months ago

    @Tigger

    Should I even try? Probably not. Well, just once. Tigger says: “The Driver of the Truck was drunk, ergo Alcoholic Beverages Killed the children, Time to halt the manufacture, distribution, and selling of all Alcoholic Beverages.” You know, Tigger, there are restrictions on the use of alcohol, including pretty strict laws about driving drunk. And no one that I’ve seen has advocated the abolition of gun ownership, anyway. Before you post this message again, you might consider taking these points into consideration.
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    Rottiluv said, 5 months ago

    Guns don’t kill people, video games don’t kill people, people who want to kill, kill people. Just take a look on Facebook to see all of the anger and hatred being spewed. Why are these people so angry? And with so many angry people in this world, is it surprising that every once in a while one of them leaves their keyboard to go commit violence?
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    ARodney said, 5 months ago

    The cartoon is not advocating the statement on the bumper sticker. Just noting that the right will accept ANYTHING, no matter how stupid, rather than accept that without a gun, this creep would not have killed a single kid in that school.
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    Tigger said, 5 months ago

    @lonecat

    Sorry, many have called for the repeal of the 2nd Amendment in this forum.

    There are strict regulations on Guns, it is against Federal Law to carry a Gun inside any School in our Great Naton The Punishment for violating this rule is a stiff stint in Federal Prison, a felony Charge, loss of owning firearms ever again and the loss f the Right to Vote.

    I did, and now you see how absurd it is for many in this forum calling for the appeal of the 2nd Amendment
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