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   surfstuff55 said, 10 months ago

   But Guns don’t kill people… people do!
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   Randy_B said, 10 months ago

   Urban guns are glorified tools for mayhem. Children’s interactions with guns usually turn out quite badly for the children.
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   Randy_B said, 10 months ago

   @KenseidenXL

   Today’s NRA is not the NRA of 40 years ago. They used to be in favor of universal background checks. No longer.
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   Rad-ish said, 10 months ago

   @KenseidenXL

   Why a mere 353 children shot in ten years?
   Why do those libs demonize guns?
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   Randy_B said, 10 months ago

   @KenseidenXL

   Your “artist’s imputation” is quite the straw man.
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   By the way, is that avatar from the Blip webcomic?
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   Randy_B said, 10 months ago

   @Rad-ish

   Take a look at the New England Journal of Medicine article from January titled “Preventing Gun Deaths in Children”, written by two pediatricians. Using 2010 data, there’s an average of 7 deaths per day among Americans 1 to 19 years of age from gun-related injuries. In this age range, “gun injuries cause twice as many deaths as cancer, 5 times as many as heart disease, and 15 times as many as infections.” KenseidenXL’s numbers (if true; I didn’t confirm them) are for gun deaths in public schools, perhaps only in classrooms.
   By the way, today’s NRA wants us to take extraordinary measures to prevent those deaths, by arming school staff and adding armed security.
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   SavannahJack said, 10 months ago

   An examination of media reports about the 559 child vehicular heatstroke deaths for an thirteen year period (1998 through 2012) shows the following circumstances:
   52% – child “forgotten” by caregiver (288 Children)
   29% – child playing in unattended vehicle (163)
   18% – child intentionally left in vehicle by adult (100)
   1% – circumstances unknown (8)

   Ban Cars!
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   3hourtour said, 10 months ago

   …Jesus is my gun…
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   Ionizer said, 10 months ago

   Actually, gun violence is down, but don’t let the facts sway the libs’ opinion.
   
   http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Society/2013/0508/With-gun-violence-down-is-America-arming-against-an-imagined-threat-video
   
   http://www.cnn.com/2013/05/08/us/study-gun-homicide/
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    jack75287 said, 10 months ago

    @KenseidenXL

    And to top it all off gun violence is down.
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    Bill said, 10 months ago

    Excellent editorial—and all too true. Aside from capitalism, gun worship has become the true religion of our society. Any intelligent people would have abolish the obsolete Second Amendment by now and prohibited all private ownership of weapons. But we U.S. citizens (not “Americans” since that term includes all citizens of Canada, Mexico, and Central and South America, for they also share this continent) have not shown ourselves to be be especially logical or rational. For myself, I’ll continue to vote for the most progressive candidates available in every election and donating to gun control activist groups.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    @surfstuff55

    But they use the guns. That kind of gun usually with large clips.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    @KenseidenXL

    I am all for weapon education and training. Not just pistols, shot guns and rifles but also knives, swords, whips, nunchucka etc. Whatever any one would want to carry. One must be licensed to carry. (Proven proficiency.)
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    @Randy_B

    The NRA in 1977 was taken over by the gun and ammunition manufacturers. Not what the Union Generals who formed it in 1876 to develop proficiency in weapons.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 10 months ago

    @SavannahJack

    Sure ban cars when you can show that cars were designed to heatstroke death of people. Until then you straw man argument fails.
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