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Signe Wilkinson

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  1. ConserveGov

    ConserveGov said, 4 months ago

    That’s funny. My gun has never incurred any of those costs, but it did save my life once.

  2. sw10mm

    sw10mm said, 4 months ago

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    Well, you got the first part right.

  3. Stipple

    Stipple said, 4 months ago

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    The mentally disturbed got their taxes lowered?

  4. Radish

    Radish said, 4 months ago

    Hold the arms maker responsible for their product.

  5. Ms. Ima

    Ms. Ima said, 4 months ago

    Benefits:
    Pricele$$!

  6. Cat Hammer

    Cat Hammer said, 4 months ago

    @Radish

    Most firearms come with warranties. That’s what you mean, right? Otherwise, your comment would be just plain stupid.

  7. Mark

    Mark said, 4 months ago

    @Stipple

    You sound hopeful…

    (sorry; couldn’t resist!)

  8. Kylie2112

    Kylie2112 said, 4 months ago

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    In Maine in 2011, Paul LePage cut our state’s DHS. Now he wants to strengthen our mental health services. That he doesn’t want to pay for.

  9. Tigger

    Tigger said, 4 months ago

    Chicago has the Strictest Gun Laws and the highest Rate of Gun Violence than any City in USA. Liberals Please explain how this could be?

  10. AshburnStadium

    AshburnStadium said, 4 months ago

    Gun liability insurance should be mandatory. We insure our cars.
    Why not insure guns? They are designed for just one purpose, to cause extreme injury to a living being with the intention that the injured not being able to survive their wound(s).
    Today’s health care insurers could become the gun insurance companies if we followed the lead of the entire remainder of the industrialized world and had universal, single-payer health insurance.
    Every other industrialized nation on the planet considers such health insurance a human right. Only in America do we oppose it.

  11. Michyle Glen

    Michyle Glen said, 4 months ago

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    Add the Liberal Organizations who thought Mental Institutions denied the mentally disturbed their rights ect.

  12. ossiningaling

    ossiningaling said, 4 months ago

    Don’t forget the cost of lobbyists to keep Americans in fear that ‘the guh’mint wull take they guns."

  13. motivemagus

    motivemagus said, 4 months ago

    “Gun violence cost the economy an estimated $174 billion a year — higher than the estimated $130 billion of alcohol-related car crashes — in terms of lost productivity, medical and mental health expenses, criminal justice costs, and lost quality of life. One gun homicide alone costs society an average of $5 million, according to the study from the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation. The annual cost to taxpayers is $1.1 billion, according to a 1999 study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.” – Alex Seitz-Wald, Salon.com His links:
    Cost of $174b:
    http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-12-21/shootings-costing-u-s-174-billion-show-burden-of-gun-violence.html
    Cost to Taxpayers of $1.1b, care of JAMA:
    http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=191001
    This was in an article on a proposed California law to ask gun owners to buy insurance — not unlike what people do with cars, of course…

  14. Omnius

    Omnius said, 4 months ago

    Gun buyers should be the ones who pay for keeping our school kids safe. Time to add a gun tax to all gun sales to pay for all those new cops LaPierre says we need in our schools.

  15. Ransom D Stone

    Ransom D Stone said, 4 months ago

    Signe, you finally got one right!

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