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   dtroutma said, 6 months ago

   Yes, making sure guns have more rights than people, kinda’ like corporations?

   
   They’re starting to get it right, any rifle with a magazine capacity over five, which operates semi-automatically, with a potential firing rate even with “one bullet per trigger pull” over 100 rounds a minute IS an “assault (on common sense) rifle”, and NOT a hunting or target rifle, needed by civilians for any rational purpose.

   
   I AM a gun owner, and see no reason for civilians to have firepower greater than I had as a combat soldier in Viet Nam. The “Bushmaster” has TWICE the magazine capacity of my M-16 btw, and I never fired that 16 on full auto, as it wasn’t needed, even in a firefight. Hitting the enemy is far more important than simply shooting at him, or her.
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   ghostkeeper said, 6 months ago

   Ah yes, the ol’ ‘abortion is murder’ argument. Usually said by people who also rail against child support, education, health care, and all those other little things the selfish bastards start crying for after being born! Or by morons who speak of ‘legitimate rape’ and ‘the body shuts down." Then there’s the twerps who figure hey, a twelve-year raped by her best friend’s father, sure it’s tragic but we gotta think of the baby! As for ‘watch a black man gleefully kill every white man in the movie in the most brutal way possible’—what? If you’d left the skin tones out, your argument would still have been tired and played out, but it wouldn’t have been a RACIST, tired and played-out old argument!
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   Tigger said, 6 months ago

   @dtroutma

   How many guns do you own?

   If it’s more than one, that’s too many correct?
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   Tigger said, 6 months ago

   Then NRA will hold a News Conference Friday as reported by NBC News
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   Tigger said, 6 months ago

   Since Alcoholic Beverages kill people daily, its time to ban the manufacture, distribution and selling of all Alcoholic Beverages, by taking this action, we will greatly reduce the number of Drunk Drivers killing innocent Motorists.

   Why would anyone need to consume any type of Alcoholic Beverage?
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   dtroutma said, 6 months ago

   Tigger: Beer, wine, and even Scotch aren’t directly made to kill people, and drinking responsibly IS a choice more people should make, yes. OUr highway death toll is sad, and now cell phones are becoming more dangerous than drunks, even though hand held are now banned in most states for drivers.

   
   bt: .22 target pistol. single shot shotgun for rabbits, pump shotgun for ducks, geese, clay pigeons, 22.250 for antelope and “varmints”, 30-30 for deer or elk, an old “collector” 1891 Mauser, All above are bolt/lever action or single shot. Have a 5 round .38 revolver “carry weapon”, which I very rarely see the need to carry for “protection”, and was gifted a semi-auto, 8 round magazine/cllip, that can be “protection” but is too bulky and heavy to just tote around for fun, or “defense”.

   
   I have no problem with folks owning guns responsibly, for functional purposes, which, is why i can see absolutely NO legitimate civilian use for a rifle/shotgun that holds more than five rounds, or a pistol that holds more than 12, as most 9 mm semi-autos do. There is absolutely NO excuse for civilians to have high capacity “people killing” guns like MAC 9 or 10, Uzi, AK-47s, or large magazine ARs or “Bushmaster” type weapons that are either purchased in lieu of testosterone, or killing multiple people at close range, because you can’t shoot well enough to do the job with “less”.
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   ReFlex-76 said, 6 months ago

   “We’ve been witnessing the mass killings of innocent, precious life for the last 40 years. It’s called abortion.”
   - Nice try changing the subject, we’re still doing this gun control discussion.
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   Kingoswald said, 6 months ago

   It’s good to see ordinary, decent Americans kicking back against the Fundamentalist obsessives. Well done, guys!
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   J. Short said, 6 months ago

   Over 100 people die daily from properly prescribed prescription drugs. They mainly go unnoticed because they’re deaths are not dramatic and all in one place.
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    DrCanuck said, 6 months ago

    @ReFlex-76

    Hah, Gore Bain vanished just as I was reading his post. Self or monitor?
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    Tigger said, 6 months ago

    @dtroutma

    Yes they are
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    Tigger said, 6 months ago

    @DrCanuck

    Self
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    lindz.coop said, 6 months ago

    If we’re gonna insist on owning these killing machines, then we need to be held responsible for making sure they do not get into the hands of the mentally ill.
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