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Mostly, I just use it to cut down straw men… that I constructed… to cut down in a heavy firefight… after I’m sure that they are unarmed and indefensible.
A kid was just arrested in Utah for bringing a gun to school to protect against shooters. Fortunately, they took it out of school. Because it turns out, more guns do not make a place safer. They make it more dangerous. Remember the Wall Street shooting? Imagine if instead of trained police popping off and wounding innocent bystanders, it had been your average gun nuts. Or imagine if the Aurora Theater had been packed with people packing heat, each shooting at everyone else who drew a gun. The solution is taking away the weapons of mass destruction, not in killing more people.
You know, you MIGHT just be able to get a few more people to pay attention to your right-wing ranting if you learned how to spell, and punctuate properly, as well as actually using proper English! It’s “Too dumb”, not “To dumb…” And, you do know what capital letters are for, don’t you? By the way, the first of the “Weak Anti-Gun” arguments were buried the other day…
Heck I like the Idea. Its like archie bunker said when people get on a plane give them a gun. And see how many people stand up and say this is a hi jacking
Please see the comment about proper spelling, punctuation, and the use of capitals. Seriously, I’m not “putting anyone down”, but those mistakes do enforce the stereotype of the “semi-illiterate redneck, wearing the camo, and screaming about the Government coming to take all his guns away, while sitting in his single-wide trailer!” that a lot of people have. By the way, I live in Kentucky, and I actually KNOW some of those people.
You know, Clinton’s assault weapon ban expired in 2004, and Obama’s election caused a rush on gun buying, particularly assault weapons and high capacity ammo magazines. I think the empirical evidence shows that more guns is not the answer. On the other hand, countries with more retrictive gun laws have fewer crimes in general, since guns make committing crimes easier.
There are 250,000,000 privately owned guns in the USA. They aren’t going to go away. Instead of dumping mentally ill people on the street for lack of profit in treating them, we should concentrate on helping those who need it, and punish those who commit any crime whatsoever with a weapon.
They can’t be compared. Politicians in Iraq are continually threatened by factions that use violence as a political weapon. Iraq is the world’s 9th most unstable country, measured by lack of effective government. Well, wait…maybe we are alike after all…
This posturing by Congress continues because it’s easier than funding a program to treat the mentally ill. Might mean fewer bombs or ships. And after all, the mentally ill don’t make “campaign contributions” or hire K Street lobbyists, so as long as issues about guns (in the world’s biggest arms seller country) can distract the populace, why not.
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BrassOrchid
said, 5 months ago
Mostly, I just use it to cut down straw men… that I constructed… to cut down in a heavy firefight… after I’m sure that they are unarmed and indefensible.
ARodney said, 5 months ago
A kid was just arrested in Utah for bringing a gun to school to protect against shooters. Fortunately, they took it out of school. Because it turns out, more guns do not make a place safer. They make it more dangerous. Remember the Wall Street shooting? Imagine if instead of trained police popping off and wounding innocent bystanders, it had been your average gun nuts. Or imagine if the Aurora Theater had been packed with people packing heat, each shooting at everyone else who drew a gun. The solution is taking away the weapons of mass destruction, not in killing more people.
Oscar54 said, 5 months ago
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To dumb? Talking about yourself, Super Goofy?
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
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You know, you MIGHT just be able to get a few more people to pay attention to your right-wing ranting if you learned how to spell, and punctuate properly, as well as actually using proper English!
It’s “Too dumb”, not “To dumb…”
And, you do know what capital letters are for, don’t you?
By the way, the first of the “Weak Anti-Gun” arguments were buried the other day…
ronald rini
said, 5 months ago
@masterskrain
one of the reason people kill. because they are put people down because of they are not as smart as they are. Of course they may be
ronald rini
said, 5 months ago
Heck I like the Idea. Its like archie bunker said when people get on a plane give them a gun. And see how many people stand up and say this is a hi jacking
Jase99 said, 5 months ago
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to dumb to really make a comment on except how stupid this is and how weak of an anti gun argument the loony left has.
In other words, you have no counter argument.
masterskrain said, 5 months ago
@ronald rini
Please see the comment about proper spelling, punctuation, and the use of capitals.
Seriously, I’m not “putting anyone down”, but those mistakes do enforce the stereotype of the “semi-illiterate redneck, wearing the camo, and screaming about the Government coming to take all his guns away, while sitting in his single-wide trailer!” that a lot of people have.
By the way, I live in Kentucky, and I actually KNOW some of those people.
Fourcrows said, 5 months ago
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You know, Clinton’s assault weapon ban expired in 2004, and Obama’s election caused a rush on gun buying, particularly assault weapons and high capacity ammo magazines. I think the empirical evidence shows that more guns is not the answer.
On the other hand, countries with more retrictive gun laws have fewer crimes in general, since guns make committing crimes easier.
bigal666 said, 5 months ago
There are 250,000,000 privately owned guns in the USA. They aren’t going to go away. Instead of dumping mentally ill people on the street for lack of profit in treating them, we should concentrate on helping those who need it, and punish those who commit any crime whatsoever with a weapon.
I Play One On TV said, 5 months ago
If you want to see how well a society functions when everybody has full access to all weapons, look no further than Iraq.
ansonia
said, 5 months ago
@bigal666
You can’t force treatment on someone just because he is mentally ill. It has nothing to do with “lack of profit in treating them.”
ansonia
said, 5 months ago
@I Play One On TV
They can’t be compared. Politicians in Iraq are continually threatened by factions that use violence as a political weapon. Iraq is the world’s 9th most unstable country, measured by lack of effective government.
Well, wait…maybe we are alike after all…
spyderred
said, 5 months ago
This posturing by Congress continues because it’s easier than funding a program to treat the mentally ill. Might mean fewer bombs or ships. And after all, the mentally ill don’t make “campaign contributions” or hire K Street lobbyists, so as long as issues about guns (in the world’s biggest arms seller country) can distract the populace, why not.
Tue Elung-Jensen said, 5 months ago
@ARodney
Unfortuntely people would not understand that till it actually happened. As in you can´t make an omelet till you break a few eggs.