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Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 02:48 PM Jun 2016

Why are Donald Trumps quotes being used on DU? Example: "They have a ban on guns in France and the

Last edited Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:19 PM - Edit history (1)

mass shooting happened." That is a hollow argument and a GOP quote. We are the Democratic underground. I see it over and over again. I can provide examples.

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Laura PourMeADrink

(42,770 posts)
1. I hear you....but...he is our opponent, and this is the most
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 02:52 PM
Jun 2016

unusual, out-of-norm, opponent we have ever had RUNNING FOR PREZ !

The crazy keeps coming - every hour, every day. think it might be very
normal to us to quote the crazy.

Lint Head

(15,064 posts)
4. This is one from someone just a couple of hours ago. I will not post the ID because I do not want to
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:16 PM
Jun 2016

be perceived as attacking another member of DU.

"Guns aren't banned anywhere

The 2d Amendment prohibits that. But France has strict gun laws and those didn't work either." If you need more let me know.

It is a canard. There are laws against a lot of things but they do not totally stop someone from committing the crimes they address.
That does not mean we should not have laws.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Oh, but he Gungeoneers call themselves"progressives" because they have lots of gunz and
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 02:57 PM
Jun 2016

want everyone to have a bunch too. Wait unti the next time a george zimmerman type shoots an unarmed kid to see just how progressive they are coming to the shooter's defense.

Dem2

(8,166 posts)
6. Why do I put all gun nuts on ignore?
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:21 PM
Jun 2016

Same reason - they parrot NRA/Right-wing nut job talking points.

Dem2

(8,166 posts)
9. They're devious, obsessive and they don't care how many times they are banned from a place
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:25 PM
Jun 2016

They will keep signing up and spewing the talking points, like good little NRA trolls.

(full disclosure, I am a gun-owning liberal)

Dem2

(8,166 posts)
11. I never think about the things
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:32 PM
Jun 2016

They exist. They are locked. Trying to imagine the demented brain of those who masturbate over them makes me

doc03

(35,298 posts)
7. Because we have right wing trolls here that represent the NRA and the gun lobby. It seems
Mon Jun 13, 2016, 03:22 PM
Jun 2016

we have several that only come out of the woodwork whenever the word gun appears on a post. I noticed the last couple days we have some anti Islam trolls now too.

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