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In reply to the discussion: "What shall we do now?" (re. the UCSB shootings) [View all]Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)51. The country may be sliding to hell in a handbasket,
but it's not due to "guns." While the # of gun-owners may have gone up some in very recent years, most sales are to already established gun owners. That's why something like a campaign for safe storage can accomplish positive goals outside an intransigent political climate. Further, the violent crime rate (including that involving guns) has been at near-historic lows. But the very real problems with national stability and democratic viability are intensifying, and I don't want to hand the NRA any cheap wins with the gun-control issue, they've had enough already.
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You are trying to conflate war and the character's personal problems
muriel_volestrangler
May 2014
#34
If you taught rhetoric than I ask you to step back and look for a larger, overarching theme
KittyWampus
May 2014
#2
So the invention of bigger and better guns and war machines had nothing to do with it?
davidn3600
May 2014
#11
we have often talked about the backlash resulting from so much success of women over a small
seabeyond
May 2014
#15
We fight to amend the Second Amendment. The existence of guns prevents the very conversations
ancianita
May 2014
#45
that has nothing to do with love and desire. that has nothing to do with being fearful
seabeyond
May 2014
#56