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Glorfindel

(9,730 posts)
1. Absolutely. If these shooters couldn't get guns, they'd just commit mass murder with
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 10:25 PM
Feb 2018

machetes, scissors, steak knives, weedeaters, chain saws, claw hammers, the jawbones of asses...guns are the innocent, aggrieved parties in these atrocities.

(Just in case.)

 

Motownman78

(491 posts)
9. The deadliest school Massacre
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 03:17 AM
Feb 2018

was done in 1927 with a home-made bomb, 38 kids and 6 adults killed. so there is a kernel of truth to the statement "guns don't kill people, people kill people". Guns are just easier to get then 500 lbs of explosives.

50 Shades Of Blue

(10,005 posts)
2. And those gun pimping fuckers will do everything in their bribing power to make it possible
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 10:31 PM
Feb 2018

for mentally ill and evil people to get their hands on all the guns they want.

milestogo

(16,829 posts)
7. That's the right sentiment for these Republican politicians
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:21 PM
Feb 2018

who come out in times like these wringing their hands and saying there's nothing we can do except thoughts and prayers. Fuck 'em.

I think its the mental illness and evil of Republicans that causes most of the social ills in our country.

Oneironaut

(5,500 posts)
8. With that same fallacy, why not give everybody rocket launchers and allow mounted machine guns on
Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:31 PM
Feb 2018

cars? Guns don't kill people, people kill people!

If you think of it this way, their argument sounds really dumb.

rock

(13,218 posts)
10. They left out guns
Thu Feb 15, 2018, 09:45 AM
Feb 2018

And what about guns? Seems like they're forgetting some other causes. Did I mention guns?

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