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   lookinside said, 6 months ago

   I remember 1960…
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   masterskrain said, 6 months ago

   Scary, and so sad…
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   DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

   Why do Americans choose to raise their children in this environment?
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   Fourcrows said, 6 months ago

   We have let the NRA put the discussion of gun control off long enough. Everytime there is a shooting, all I hear is " Now is not the time". Well, we can’t go a few months between shootings here, so lets make the time. The distractions are non sequitur. A failure of the mental health system? No. None of these shooters did anything that would have put them in the system in the first place. The criminal justice system? No. None of these shooters had a criminal record. All they had in common was legal access to multiple guns. That is it.
   A question for all those who are afraid of the gubmint taking their guns away: how many times have you actually had to defend your house with a gun? If you want conceal carry, how many times have you drawn your gun in public? How many times have you walked into a convenience store and stopped a crime? Never. It doesn’t happen. When extra guns have been involved, innocent people got hurt. I have been held at gunpoint 3 times when I ran a drug store, and if I or anyone else would have had a gun, it would have resulted in a death (probably my own) instead of the criminal getting away with some Vicodin and being caught two days later because I stayed calm and identified them for the police.
   I will say the second amendment does guarantee gun ownership, but it is time to discuss what limits can be put on it. One hand gun and one rifle per citizen? How many do you need if you’re not looking to commit a crime? A required police trained course to acquire a gun? Why not? You have to do that to drive a car. Yearly registration and inspection checks? Why not? Again, your car requires the same. With every right comes responsibilities, why should guns be different?
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   Simon_Jester said, 6 months ago

   I happened to meet up with a retrired teacher yesterday. She was deeply shaken by the events in Newton, Conn…not only was she a former grade-school teacher but she knew personally someone who;d been wounded in another mass shooting. Of all the memories of yestrday’s terrible events, that encounter is the one that will linger the longest. Talking to her, I couldt empathize with the teachers and children of the Sandy Hook elementary school in a way I could not have otherwise..
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   Justice22 said, 6 months ago

   @Fourcrows

   I am a gun owner and enjoy the use and benefits of the same. Personally, I wouldn’t mind the limiting of gun ownership to owning hunting rifles and shotguns and revolvers or single shot handguns. Semi-automatics of any sort are not needed for any reason unless you are going up against a posse or a whole herd of man-killing rabbits.
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   ahab said, 6 months ago

   Don’t expect any meaningful help from the present NRA. They benefit from gun rights hysteria. Gun control takes away from their message. They’ll trot out the same old memes from the same old people.
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   ahab said, 6 months ago

   ^Three…two…one!
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   dtroutma said, 6 months ago

   In a nation where our dropping a bomb on a school, or wedding party full of children, from half way around the world, remotely, with “clean hands”, is easily accepted morality, why should we judge our local shooters’ “morality”?

   
   it isn’t just the guns, but the entire social value system. Just as we shouldn’t have to pay taxes to support those awful police and public “servants” who leach off the rich?
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    ahab said, 6 months ago

    @Fourcrows

    Thanks Fourcrows!
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    kamwick said, 6 months ago

    Can we finally start having a reasonable discussion about control of semiautomatic weapons?
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    Radish said, 6 months ago

    Maybe we could ask the question of why there are so many insane people? Could something be wrong with our society?
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    Jase99 said, 6 months ago

    ‘Tis a shame Charlton Heston isn’t around to hold another pro-gun rally near the school, brandishing a high powered rifle and shouting how they’ll pry his gun from his cold, dead hands
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    Joseph Del Valle said, 6 months ago

    The object they should be cowering from should be a US Flag holding a copy of the Second Amendment
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    Kylie2112 said, 6 months ago

    @kamwick

    Almost all legal hunting rifles are 6 round capacity (most states’ laws limit you to a 5 round clip and one in the chamber) semi-automatic. The issue is capacity…no one should ever need a 5+ round clip outside of being in the military.
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    Semi-automatic is a buzzword used by people who don’t know anything about guns. I am pro-gun control, and I own a very nice Ruger .44 magnum semi-auto hunting rifle…accurate to over 200 yards, too.
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