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Top Bump Stock Manufacturer To Resume Sales Of Deadly Device After GOP Congress Refuses To Act
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Emboldened by a spineless and NRA-owned Republican Party, a leading manufacturer of deadly and totally unnecessary bump stocks plans to resume selling the device that helped Las Vegas shooter Stephen Paddock mow down hundreds of concertgoers last month.
http://www.politicususa.com/2017/11/01/top-bump-stock-manufacturer-resume-sales-deadly-device-gop-congress-refuses-act.html
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Top Bump Stock Manufacturer To Resume Sales Of Deadly Device After GOP Congress Refuses To Act (Original Post)
guillaumeb
Nov 2017
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SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)1. They only denounce killings by non whites
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)2. Of course.
Non-white killing is terror, white killing is Second Amendment activity. Or the price of freedom.
Journeyman
(15,025 posts)3. 20-some dead kids and nothing was done. Something seriously wrong with us and our society . . .
Intrepid souls can still climb to the top of the University of Texas Tower. Quite a sight from such a height. A clear field for blocks around.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)4. Have you ever heard the Ballad of Charles Whitman Riley?
Kinky Friedman
billh58
(6,635 posts)7. He picked up his guns and walked to school
They'd never seen an Eagle Scout so cruel
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)9. Kinky Friedman has a bizarre streak.
Who are we to say the boy's insane?
billh58
(6,635 posts)5. The better to
stand-your-ground against phantom threats and innocent victims.
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)6. My feeling is that many gun owners saw the movie "Red Dawn" and thought it
was history.
That, and the equally lunatic "fear of a repressive government taking my guns" scenario that is also very evident among some gun owners.
billh58
(6,635 posts)8. Fear sells guns and
stokes red necked egos.