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In reply to the discussion: The gigantic logic failure of gun confiscating [View all]LonePirate
(13,905 posts)29. The cure - saving just 1 life - makes it far more important than the epidemic of gun violence.
You gun lovers have allowed the criminals and the terroristic NRA to dictate gun policy in this country. Some of us have had enough. Your fetish is not more important than my life. Constitutionally enshrined confiscation and bans are the only viable solution.
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...heh-heh...I think littleblue is addressing a Real issue about controller dialog...
Eleanors38
Dec 2015
#263
Complete confiscation will likely require a couple of decades; but it is well worth it.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#7
There is a poll today here on DU where the partial and full confiscation numbers are about 60%.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#11
I would never underestimate how much the rest of DU wants guns gone.
cherokeeprogressive
Dec 2015
#78
I certainly agree that DU does not represent the nation as a whole. DU is merely a trendsetter.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#88
You do realize that DU is a TERRIBLE predictor of national trends, right?
Lizzie Poppet
Dec 2015
#196
I don't know which Democratic president you think will stick his/her neck out that far
tularetom
Dec 2015
#98
So you support citizens possessing illegal items that endanger the lives of their neighbors?
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#13
How does the neighbor know if it is safely locked away? What if the neighbor's kids play there?
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#23
The cure - saving just 1 life - makes it far more important than the epidemic of gun violence.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#29
Confiscation is a "solution" that would kill exponentially more than it saves.
Lizzie Poppet
Dec 2015
#240
The gundamentalists only care about guns. Nothing else matters - not even their fellow mankind.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#51
Fact failure. In 2013 in the U.S., 33,636 deaths from firearms. 10.6 deaths per 100,000.
valerief
Dec 2015
#49
I was talking about mass shootings since that is what seems to be driving this particular tizzy...
TipTok
Dec 2015
#52
Some measures would. But all the focus on "assault weapons" and large magazines mostly wouldn't.
Lizzie Poppet
Dec 2015
#197
My money is on the LEOs when it comes to a showdown with 75 yo George the Gun Nut
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#25
Give me a tank and I'll do it. Come out gramps or you get a 105 mm high explosive round
MillennialDem
Dec 2015
#35
Far less insane than the gun nuts. Just trying to make the country a better place - while
MillennialDem
Dec 2015
#104
Not outside the mainstream for my age. And I've never wrecked my car or hit anyone drag racing, why
MillennialDem
Dec 2015
#111
Or at very least will keep them in their homes and won't dare take them outside. That alone is
MillennialDem
Dec 2015
#43
I'm not sure what rural community you live in but the urban LEOs want guns gone.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#33
The so called 'rights' in the second amendment are tearing our country apart
Abouttime
Dec 2015
#162
"Another gun nut's spouse or neighbor may anonymously report them for confiscation. Social and peer
Brickbat
Dec 2015
#128
I feel absolutely no need to obey laws against the US Bill of Rights..
virginia mountainman
Dec 2015
#30
When we finally enact bans and confiscations, you can turn them over or go to jail. Your choice.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#63
How surprising! A gunner who supports violence. Nothing matters except guns, huh?
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#72
Repeal is a good 30-50 years away, barring a major shift. But you underestimate young Americans.
LonePirate
Dec 2015
#81
What a magnificent counter-argument, I can feel myself getting smarter reading every word.
sibelian
Dec 2015
#80
it cant be done. it cannot be done. but you can not condone, and laws set the tone
reddread
Dec 2015
#243
Well, that would quickly sort out the real law abiding citizens from the criminals, wouldn't it? nt
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Dec 2015
#26
"you think they won't violently resist giving up their arms?" ...I absolutely expect it
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#44
Well, in that instance the Davidians were barricaded and firing on law enforcement
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#112
"And none of this prevents you from immigrating to a country with lax gun laws"
EX500rider
Dec 2015
#206
It's a fairly obvious point that outlawing guns in those countries did nothing..
EX500rider
Dec 2015
#219
Ban the sale & distribution of bullets and the means to make bullets.
The_Casual_Observer
Dec 2015
#64
LOL that statement alone shows just how poorly you understand.......
virginia mountainman
Dec 2015
#214
Oh boy, here we go again. Red States vs. Blue States. I grew up in the country where a .22 was a
libdem4life
Dec 2015
#71
Oooookidokey then, you draw up laws to bring about excuses to kill your enemy.
sibelian
Dec 2015
#96
To be perfectly honest, I think they would all give their guns up without a fight.
Oneironaut
Dec 2015
#89
After Sandy Hook Connecticut instituted some pretty strick new gun laws. Google what the
Waldorf
Dec 2015
#116
We will never have gun confiscation in the US. At least not in our lifetime.
hollowdweller
Dec 2015
#90
And I very seriously doubt that you've EVER put yourself in danger in your life.
GGJohn
Dec 2015
#153
Your refusal to answer the question, then accuse me of lying, then running away
GGJohn
Dec 2015
#155
Do you support putting the earliest efforts at confiscation in African American communities?
FrodosPet
Dec 2015
#242
We are in trouble because millions sit around in paranoia, waiting for a self-fufilling prophecy
Rex
Dec 2015
#97
how about controlling powder? ormarkers in it? if fertilizer has that, and oc drugs are regulated...
JanMichael
Dec 2015
#107
If cops started kicking down the doors of lawful Americans looking for firearms, (won't ever happen)
GGJohn
Dec 2015
#130
Very interesting that you chose to say "lawful Americans" not "lawful firearms"
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#132
The only thing you have left is threatening people with violence over and over and over again
951-Riverside
Dec 2015
#135
I myself have never visited violence on another human since I retired from the Army,
GGJohn
Dec 2015
#136
"In the last 43 years, more Americans have been shot by another American...
EX500rider
Dec 2015
#216
When someone (you in this case) says "Americans who killed OTHER Americans"...
EX500rider
Dec 2015
#259
So if you say "I drive other American's cars" you mean you drive your own car?
EX500rider
Dec 2015
#269
What in the world leads you to believe that the military will fire on Americans?
GGJohn
Dec 2015
#169
Why not? Cops do it all the time. Hey, your precious 2nd is a lot older than 60 years.
Photographer
Dec 2015
#174
Again, what makes you think that cops are going to enforce a ban and confiscation?
GGJohn
Dec 2015
#175
If it's the law, they will enforce it. If you think they won't you live in a dream world
Photographer
Dec 2015
#177
I have been in both the military and law enforcement- neither body would do the confiscation
Lee-Lee
Dec 2015
#184
Cops need another economic asset instead of "the marijuana." They can looks for bullets and
lonestarnot
Dec 2015
#222
Restrict new production, restrict ammo, stop public toting, restrict shooting ranges, etc. Let them
Hoyt
Dec 2015
#212
Of course they would resist and if it takes violence to confiscate their guns so be it.
bowens43
Dec 2015
#227
Actually, I think the first step would be to ban all imports and exports.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
Dec 2015
#228