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Guns Don't Kill People,... (Original Post)
JimGinPA
Dec 2017
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Rhiannon12866
(205,697 posts)1. K&R! Great post!
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)2. Umm, some of us also want a ban on assault weapons
"People" don't have any reason to own them.
NNadir
(33,533 posts)3. As an old man, I wish I'd had this retort for the last 50 years.
Why didn't I think of that?
Brilliant! Absolutely Brilliant!
K&R!
randr
(12,412 posts)5. Don't you wish someone had come up with that 50 years ago
Might have saved countless lives.
I say it becomes the mantra for all regulatory conversations.
paleotn
(17,937 posts)4. Good stuff.
but reason is lost on so many of them. Sure, people kill people, but people WITH GUNS kill more people more efficiently than with any other method outside of explosives, and explosives ARE heavily regulated.
aikoaiko
(34,177 posts)7. Good. Maybe you'll confront the folks who keep talking about banning guns.
Because that's what fueled that NRA meme.