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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLook at this ridiculous analogy I found on Facebook regarding guns
So because Hitler, Timothy McVeigh and the 9/11 hijackers did their heinous acts, we can't do anything to try and make our country safer from guns because these acts involved other means.
DrDan
(20,411 posts)(at least I think he was)
Enrique
(27,461 posts)it's increased safety.
And by the way fertilizer purchases are tracked by law enforcement and box cutters are no longer allowed on planes.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)Then it is more accurately stated that it is a "godless society with guns". Why they see adding guns to what they call a "godless society" as a good thing is not known to me.
Apparently we are not moral enough to handle guns.
surrealAmerican
(11,361 posts)... why aren't the examples all atheists? Far more mass murders have been perpetrated by people who claim to have faith in a religion than by those who make no such claim.
quaker bill
(8,224 posts)Joe the Revelator
(14,915 posts)My god is not a 3 year old who throws temper tantrums.
get the red out
(13,466 posts)Disgusting. And I also saw something going around about 20 happy children bursting open the doors of heaven. I guess the right just wants to remind us that we can't stop this so we should be happy about little kids being with Jesus now.
LeftinOH
(5,354 posts)nor did they come from a "godless societies".. far from it. And for what it's worth, McVeigh probably thought of himself as a believer.
ThePhilosopher04
(1,732 posts)it's illegal possess large quantities of fertilizer, carry boxcutters on airplanes and possess biological weapons ... guns should be next using their own logic.
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)It's infuriating. I don't know that I'm going to be civilized if I hear the same old NRA-induced spew this time around.
Lex
(34,108 posts)The Christians sure are quick to write Him off.