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   cdward said, 5 months ago

   It is important to know that states with strict gun laws DO have lower overall gun death rates. While not every country with strict gun laws has a low gun death rate, it is true that every country has – among other things in common – strict gun regulation. Switzerland, which has nearly as high gun ownership as the US, also has extremely rigid gun regulations including mandatory and repeated training, strict limits on which guns can be kept on the home, how much ammunition can be kept in the home, and serious background checking. You can’t stop every madman from attacking the innocents, but this is a small fraction of overall gun deaths – and you CAN reduce those numbers with proper NATIONAL regulation. (We don’t have national regulation which makes it easy to transport weapons across state lines. In NYC, 90% of the weapons used in crimes were brought in from states where gun purchasing is easy and virtually unregulated).
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   SeaFox10 said, 5 months ago

   Well said!
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   bztk said, 5 months ago

   Following Varvel’s jackass logic… why are we banning drugs?
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   ARodney said, 5 months ago

   More guns in kindergartens. What could possibly go wrong?
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   brent said, 5 months ago

   Misleading subtext. Nobody is proposing banning guns. Nobody.
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   Rockngolfer said, 5 months ago

   Remember that it was Reagan who closed the mental hospitals to save money.
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   ODon said, 5 months ago

   @

   “This wouldn’t have happened if…” your assumptions are just that. Why not add “if” the fire power was not available in the first place.
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   Bruce4671 said, 5 months ago

   “We must reject the idea that every time a law is broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker.

   It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions." – Ronald Reagan
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   DavidGBA said, 5 months ago

   It helped.
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    Orthodox Catholic said, 5 months ago

    Probably one of the better cartoons on this site. People will always find a way to do evil, whether it be by fertilzer, dynomite, or knives.
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    That said, I do support the idea of limiting the firepower that people can have as citizens. I have no idea why we would need semi-automatics with high capacity magazines.
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    I do know, on the other hand, that I need to have some form of protection from evil people and Liberals who wish to do me harm because I am pro-life and pro traditional marriage. Obama and his thugs are slobbering on their shoes waiting to round us all up and kill us, and we need protection from them, so a total ban on handguns is out. But reasonable restraints should be put in place.
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    BTW — Protection from the tyrants in government is the whole reason for the Second Ammendment
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    disgustedtaxpayer said, 5 months ago

    the Human Race has had “bans” and LAWS since Adam’s days…if a person wants to kill another person, all bans and all laws are ignored and violated. Killing can be done with a stone, a baseball bat, or any inanimate object or chemical.
    Guns do not commit murder.
    Cars do not commit murder, but more Americans die by reason of cars by accident or on purpose, and no one organizes to “BAN VEHICLES”….
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    Since the days of Stalin, the Communist Party goal includes “disarm the people”…that is the root and source of today’s ‘GUN CONTROL’ agenda publicity! Blaming guns does not originate with sane thinking.
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    DrCanuck said, 5 months ago

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    Gore Bane said, “This wouldn’t have happened if heroic Sandy Hook principal Dawn Hochsprung had been armed.”

    
    What makes you think she would have the psychological ability or physical skill to gun down a fellow human being? Do you see her as someone lacking in conscience?
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    Gore Bane said, 5 months ago

    @cdward

    So which are the states that you would use as an example?
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    Anweir88 said, 5 months ago

    So, Dr. Canuck. You think that it takes a lack of conscience to decide to protect innocent children? Very telling…
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    mickey1339 said, 5 months ago

    @Rockngolfer

    “Remember that it was Reagan who closed the mental hospitals to save money..”

    Can’t we leave this beyond finger pointing? I’m sure Clinton could have acted to do something to restore the system. Then we have Obama in office, including a two year hiatus of total control of all three branches of government. Nothing was improved, quite the contrary, clinics and services are still being cut back on state and local levels.
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