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onehandle

(51,122 posts) Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:17 PM Jul 2016

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Gun and truck terror attack leaves at least 77 dead in Nice

Guns again. Guns are the new and old symbol of terrorism.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3691019/Several-people-injured-truck-crashes-crowd-Bastille-Day-celebrations-Nice.html

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Gun and truck terror attack leaves at least 77 dead in Nice (Original Post) onehandle Jul 2016 OP

France has strict gun laws Legends303 Jul 2016 #1

Strict gun laws have little effect on gun manufacturers. onehandle Jul 2016 #2

Who manufactured the weapons used in this attack? Marengo Jul 2016 #3

It's a safe bet the guns used in this attack were manufactured outside the USA. NutmegYankee Jul 2016 #4

So gun corporations are A-OK as long as the terrorism is domestic? onehandle Jul 2016 #5

Without gun manufactirers there wouldn't be guns. Without a demand for guns, there wouldn't jmg257 Jul 2016 #6

Congress likes their money and support. nt onehandle Jul 2016 #7

Just pointing out that your pet issue doesn't apply here. NutmegYankee Jul 2016 #8

So gun company CEOs and their savior Wayne LaPierre are A-OK? onehandle Jul 2016 #9

Your singular focus really is getting pathetic. NutmegYankee Jul 2016 #10

ISIS is to blame for Gabby Giffords' gun attack? onehandle Jul 2016 #12

The topic is a terror attack in France. NutmegYankee Jul 2016 #13

ISIS is to blame for the ease of acquisition of guns for the Orlando LGBT attack? onehandle Jul 2016 #14

This message was self-deleted by its author NutmegYankee Jul 2016 #15

Orlando is in France? NutmegYankee Jul 2016 #19

How about truck corprations? Nancyswidower Jul 2016 #17

Guns did play a part that's for sure... StraightRazor Jul 2016 #11

Luckily guys with guns were able to stop the guy with the truck, and gun. jmg257 Jul 2016 #18

How did the driver so easily get close to the crowds in a truck that size? rockfordfile Jul 2016 #16

The weapons... Puha Ekapi Jul 2016 #20

LOL ! Angel Martin Jul 2016 #21

Fire off an E-mail to the leadership of France... beevul Jul 2016 #22

What a horrible tragedy TimPeters493 Jul 2016 #23

Legends303

(481 posts)

1. France has strict gun laws

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:20 PM

Jul 2016

unfounrlty this will play right in the right wing's hands.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

2. Strict gun laws have little effect on gun manufacturers.

Reply to Legends303 (Reply #1)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:21 PM

Jul 2016

They are the problem. They must be dealt with.

Marengo

(3,477 posts)

3. Who manufactured the weapons used in this attack?

Reply to onehandle (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:38 PM

Jul 2016

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

4. It's a safe bet the guns used in this attack were manufactured outside the USA.

Reply to onehandle (Reply #2)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:38 PM

Jul 2016

Main manufacturers - China and Russia and their client states.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

5. So gun corporations are A-OK as long as the terrorism is domestic?

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #4)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:55 PM

Jul 2016

Good to know.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

6. Without gun manufactirers there wouldn't be guns. Without a demand for guns, there wouldn't

Reply to onehandle (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:57 PM

Jul 2016

be a need for manufacturers.

So many people like guns, they probably like manufacturers too.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

7. Congress likes their money and support. nt

Reply to jmg257 (Reply #6)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:58 PM

Jul 2016

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

8. Just pointing out that your pet issue doesn't apply here.

Reply to onehandle (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 10:58 PM

Jul 2016

Your efforts to link the two notwithstanding.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

9. So gun company CEOs and their savior Wayne LaPierre are A-OK?

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #8)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:04 PM

Jul 2016

Good to know.

And bonus! Dead Kindergartens are 'pet issues.'

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

10. Your singular focus really is getting pathetic.

Reply to onehandle (Reply #9)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:07 PM

Jul 2016

Yes, it's a pet issue - it's all you want to discuss, even if the topic is tomato plant diseases. You'll find a way to blame it on guns and try to discuss it.

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

12. ISIS is to blame for Gabby Giffords' gun attack?

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #10)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:09 PM

Jul 2016

Good to know.

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

13. The topic is a terror attack in France.

Reply to onehandle (Reply #12)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:13 PM

Jul 2016

Was Gabby there - no she wasn't. But you had to try to fit it in...

onehandle

(51,122 posts)

14. ISIS is to blame for the ease of acquisition of guns for the Orlando LGBT attack?

Reply to NutmegYankee (Reply #13)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:15 PM

Jul 2016

Good to know.

Response to onehandle (Reply #14)

NutmegYankee This message was self-deleted by its author.

NutmegYankee

(16,199 posts)

19. Orlando is in France?

Reply to onehandle (Reply #14)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:37 PM

Jul 2016

Good to know.

Nancyswidower

(182 posts)

17. How about truck corprations?

Reply to onehandle (Reply #5)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:30 PM

Jul 2016

StraightRazor

(260 posts)

11. Guns did play a part that's for sure...

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:07 PM

Jul 2016

but it seems the truck may have played a slightly larger role in the carnage.

Banning trucks (especially fully automatic ones) might just stop the next attack.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

18. Luckily guys with guns were able to stop the guy with the truck, and gun.

Reply to StraightRazor (Reply #11)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:33 PM

Jul 2016

rockfordfile

(8,695 posts)

16. How did the driver so easily get close to the crowds in a truck that size?

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:19 PM

Jul 2016

It will be interesting to see where all the weapons came from.

Puha Ekapi

(594 posts)

20. The weapons...

Reply to rockfordfile (Reply #16)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 01:14 AM

Jul 2016

...probably came from Leland Yee.

Angel Martin

(942 posts)

21. LOL !

Reply to Puha Ekapi (Reply #20)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 01:34 AM

Jul 2016

hard to find humor in this awful attack, but there it is.

Only on DU can a terrorist attack in France with a truck be twisted into a USA gun control tirade.

But Onehandle's monomania never fails.

beevul

(12,194 posts)

22. Fire off an E-mail to the leadership of France...

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 02:29 AM

Jul 2016

Fire off an E-mail to the leadership of france, and antigun-splain to them that they just don't have strict enough gun control, and that this tragedy all the fault of the nra.

TimPeters493

(2 posts)

23. What a horrible tragedy

Reply to onehandle (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 02:33 AM

Jul 2016

RIP to all those who perished in this monstrous act of terrorism. Stay safe, residents of Nice.

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