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   Tigger said, 5 months ago

   Also applies to Alcoholic Beverages which kills someone every hour of every day
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   ghostkeeper said, 5 months ago

   @Tigger

   False equivalency. Yes, alcohol kills; however, as a general rule people do not assault people with alcohol, kicking them to the ground, and pouring alcohol down their throats until cirrhosis of the liver occurs!
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   Respectful Troll said, 5 months ago

   @ Tigger Applejack and Orange Liqueur, Tigger. Laws banning drinking and driving, while imperfect are saving lives daily. We know you don’t like liquor. How do you feel about guns?
   The artist of the cartoon overestimates our outrage. The large number of pistols in the toppling statue will not be banned, though extended clips may well be. I like shooting at targets with a pistol. Though I prefer revolvers to the semi automatics shown.
   Toppling the influence of the NRA is due. We need a hunters lobby, not a gun manufacturers lobby. Hunters are typically pretty good people. Gun sellers have a profit motive.
   Respectfully,
   C.
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   Ms. Ima said, 5 months ago

   Without NRA training the murders will increase.
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   Mikeyj said, 5 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   You’re replying to Mr. Ima’s comment:

   Without NRA training the murders will increase
   ^{^
   ^}
   Then why is the per capita murder rate here in Canada, so much lower than yours?
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   mikefive said, 5 months ago

   “False equivalency. Yes, alcohol kills;….”
   ♦
   I don’t think it’s quite a false equivalency, ghostkeeper, if you consider alcohol as the gun such as in DUI manslaughter. Alcohol the “gun”, the vehicle the ammunition. Bar fights, domestic abuse, assault and battery, murder, etc.—-consider alcohol the “gun” that “kills” judgement and results in the aforementioned being committed by some people. And, no, I am not anti-alcohol. I like an occasional beer.
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   pavlov said, 5 months ago

   for the cartoonist please explain this one: A lone gunman has killed six people and wounded at least ten others in the town of Alphen aan den Rijn in the west of the Netherlands.

   The gunman, who was using an automatic weapon, slowly walked through the shopping centre, shooting all the while. He then committed suicide. Outside the military, nobody in the Netherlands is allowed to own or shoot an automatic weapon. Oh and how did your draconian firearm laws work in 1940.
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   barefootanarchist said, 5 months ago

   @ghostkeeper

   Yes, and most gun owners don’t go around shooting people.
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   barefootanarchist said, 5 months ago

   @Ms. Ima

   Evidence?
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    Fourcrows said, 5 months ago

    @pavlov

    How many times has something like that happened in the Netherlands, compared to how many times it has happened here? The shooter had to do a lot of illegal stuff to get a hold of that gun and had obviously planned it out quite well. Europe has just as many “messed up kids” as we do here, but those kids don’t have parents who can buy them guns or have AR-15’s lying around.
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    comicsssfan said, 5 months ago

    @barefootanarchist

    Just a gut feeling.
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    MelvinLott said, 5 months ago

    @Mikeyj

    because you folks are nice?
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    furnituremaker said, 5 months ago

    when I was six,my dad gave me a Remington .22 and taught me gun safety and gun control (how to hit what I shot at)…he also threatened me with dire consequences if I even
    THOUGHT about pointing it at another human.
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    mikefive said, 5 months ago

    @Mr. King

    My apologies. I can think of no simpler way of of expressing what I posted as a counter-point and elaboration on ghostkeepers comment. I thought the analogies were fairly elementary.
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    Night-Gaunt49 said, 5 months ago

    @ghostkeeper

    True, people assault others and are assaulted under its influence.
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