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   dtroutma said, 5 months ago

   A revolver at close quarters, and a bolt action long rifle still can “reach out and touch someone”. Massive magazines and high rates of fire are for suppression of an enemy, not school kids in a classroom. Restricting access to military weapons intended for combat, will not “sheer any sheep”.
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   mickey1339 said, 5 months ago

   @dtroutma

   “ONe in 17 Americans has a serious mental illness, statistically, most of them have guns, think about it.”

   That was a comment you made on another board earlier. Do you have a link that will make that credible?
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   Radish said, 5 months ago

   To bad we’re forced to live with the shear terror of crazy people with semi automatic guns.
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   rvernon said, 5 months ago

   Mike Lester is the most consistent cartoonist on this site; he’s always on the wrong side of everything.
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   omQ R said, 5 months ago

   @rvernon

   Ha!
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   ghostkeeper said, 5 months ago

   I don’t get it— gun control is fleecing America? Also, grow up, morons. “We need the guns to keep the government from taking over”—sure. All the dead are footsoldiers in the war against dirty commie socialism, don’t be sad, be proud! God! Stupidity, thy name is NRA!
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   jonesb said, 5 months ago

   @mickey1339

   Come on, we all know there are more Democrats and Republicans than that.
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   cjr53 said, 5 months ago

   @mickey1339

   So by your implied logic, we as Americans are extremely lucky there haven’t been more mass shootings with assault weaponry.
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   Kevin Robinson said, 5 months ago

   @dtroutma

   Cars kill 3 times as many people every year as guns, but you are not trying to ban them. In China a man walked into a school with a knife and slashed 23 students. proving when their is a will there is a way. Think logically not emotiionally
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    mikefive said, 5 months ago

    @mickey1339

    The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration as published by the National Institute of Mental Healthl shows approximately 5% of Americans with serious mental illness in the past year or 1 in 20. Somewhere between he SAMHSA. NIMH, and the CDC, I did see that rate at 6% or 1 in 17 listed on one of those sites. Which of these numbers is valid would be a guess.
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    denis1112 said, 5 months ago

    @Radish

    Too bad we’re forced to live with drug gang loons and thugs.Where I live most are from south of the Rio Grande,but there are a lot of really evil ones in the getto too.Just listen to the police scanner.Look at the Chicago Tribunes’s"Mugs in the News".But if your a dem you won’t want anything done,you’ll blame some “rich guy”.Without the thugs libs would soon run out of weed.
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    lonecat said, 5 months ago

    @Kevin Robinson

    Yes, I heard about the attack in China. How many children died in that attack?
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    Rockngolfer said, 5 months ago

    There is an old saying that “You can shear a sheep many times, but you can only lead him to slaughter once.”
    I think means that you can only use an excuse once.
    Not sure how that applies to gun control.
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    I Play One On TV said, 5 months ago

    @Kevin Robinson

    On the surface, a worthwhile argument. On closer examination, apples and oranges. First off, cars were built to transport people and things. In other words, constructive. When cars kill people, they call them “accidents”. Other than when I drove a taxi in Boston, I never saw anyone try to hurt another by using the car as a weapon. I know that it happens, but most injuries and deaths that are auto-related are not done on purpose.

    Guns, on the other hand, have one purpose, which is to put holes into living beings. Even the crappy ones seem to do that well. In other words, destructive.

    Most people who die in car crashes die accidentally. Most people who die from bullets die on purpose.

    And, to your second point, as others have noted, no children died in the knife attack.

    And for those of you who will use the “other things kill people; you want to ban those too” (again ignoring that almost no one wants to ban all guns), I’ll ask you when was the last time you heard of a “drive-by clubbing”?
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    mickey1339 said, 5 months ago

    @cjr53

    “So by your implied logic, we as Americans are extremely lucky there haven’t been more mass shootings with assault weaponry.”

    Sorry, that is the most Illogical statement you could have made. I asked for a link to a data source because there are so many unsubstantiated claims bandied about of late. Yours is the assumption…
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