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  1. dtroutma

    dtroutma said, 5 months ago

    Yup, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, U.S., Iraq, Israel, not at all like ruthless Japan, England, Australia, New Zealand, or all the other nations were reasonable limits are in place.

  2. Radish

    Radish said, 5 months ago

    All those polite gang bangers are a great example.

  3. braindead08

    braindead08 said, 5 months ago

    How long has the NRA been dead set against them violent video games that cause those mass killings?
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    Was it before last Friday?

  4. Stipple

    Stipple said, 5 months ago

    Always.
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    Name the game that caused this latest mass killing and you will find the NRA is dead set against it.
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    Since before last friday.

  5. saywhatwhat

    saywhatwhat said, 5 months ago

    Whoever said, An armed society is a polite society" was phantasying about a “good old days” that never existed… Tombstone Arizona in 1880, maybe? King Arthur’s Court?

  6. Darren Blair

    Darren Blair said, 5 months ago

    Thomas E. Woods’ “33 Questions You’re Not Supposed To Ask About American History” notes that the Wild West wasn’t as wild as most people think it is.
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    Rather, the combination of “strict private property laws” and “common firearm ownership” helped serve to keep the crime rate in check, such that for some towns the murder rate was almost non-existent.

  7. Darsan54

    Darsan54 said, 5 months ago

    Mr. Blair, I applaud you. The vast majority of people don’t realize their ideas of the wild, wild west were inspired by penny novels and early Hollywood films. They had nearly total gun control in towns, which is why when someone used a gun to kill someone in a town the event was doubly horrifing and made a place for itself in history. And the prevelance of guns didn’t come until after the Civil War when excess manufacturing capacity encouraged the gun makers to expand their marketing thru myth making – read: general lying.

  8. Darsan54

    Darsan54 said, 5 months ago

    @saywhatwhat

    Not sure, but I think it was Robert Heinlein, whose “armed” society also provided basic needs such as food, housing and medical care despite its liberterian leanings.

  9. Rx71Wm29

    Rx71Wm29 said, 5 months ago

    As far as I can recall, the NRA has not mentioned violent video games, as a possible cause of weapon related crimes, before last Friday’s announcement. I may be wrong on this, but I doubt it. Maybe the video game industry hasn’t been making generous enough “contributions” to the NRA lately? Is that the reason for them being singled out? I wonder.

  10. daves306

    daves306 said, 5 months ago

    Hey Nick, Try carrying an AR-15 slung over your shoulder down the sidewalk in your neighborhood and get back to us on how that turns out for you. Because responsible gun owners walk around like that all the time.

  11. dannysixpack

    dannysixpack said, 5 months ago

    ^The NRA is practicing it’s 3 legged strategy. The first leg is to insure the drafting ineffective laws, so they can point at the them after an ‘incident’ and say that laws are ineffective (were the earp brothers in dodge city?). The second leg is to distract the conversation to anything else. video games, mental health. while these are societal problems that the NRA certainly doesn’t care about, they make a fine scapegoat for un-educated liberals. The third leg is to refuse to discuss guns, as that guns are not and have never been the problem.

  12. Fairportfan2

    Fairportfan2 said, 5 months ago

    @Darsan54

    And had a strict code duello as well.

  13. Fairportfan2

    Fairportfan2 said, 5 months ago

    The OK Corral shootout was a showdown between two gangs of thugs. Wyatt Earp was a crooked faro dealer, and one of the other Earps was a violent pimp.

  14. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

    @dtroutma

    Hey, gangs and criminals with guns, you can go to Japan, England, Australia, New Zealand and take what you want. They have ‘no gun’ laws that means no one is going to stop you. Why don’t they just put up ‘defenseless, take what you want’ signs?

  15. Clark Kent

    Clark Kent said, 5 months ago

    @Ms. Ima

    @mr troll, in those countries they won’t hesitate to call out the military and defeat you in short order. They will consider you an alien invader.

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