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Erich Bloodaxe BSN

(14,733 posts)
1. I actually disagree with that one this time around.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 10:32 PM
Jul 2015

The murders happened because of the racism, not the gun. The gun merely facilitated the murders. He could have just as easily have dynamited the place, or chained the doors shut and torched it or whatever.

Guns kill far too many, and make massacres too easy, but we can't simply keep on ignoring the countless numbers killed by racism, whether it's hanging, burning, shooting, choking, dragging, beating or any other brutally violent way to maim and murder.

Fred Sanders

(23,946 posts)
2. Guns making killing so much easier, 340 million lying around just pull out the WMD from Walmart.
Thu Jul 2, 2015, 10:37 PM
Jul 2015

Why bother with anything complicated?

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