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In reply to the discussion: Tweet of the day (Guns) [View all]Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)52. That scenario would assume one person per row
and all on the same side of the aisle in the aisle seat, with rows far enough apart where they couldn't kick the seat in front of them.
This is not even close to a feasible comparable argument - and I am surprised you even brought it up as such.
You are maintaining that a single individual could wound/kill 71 people with a knife with the same efficacy as an ar-15?
Comeon, Krispos - thats homemade cow shit and you know it.
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The argument that women have been aborting violent criminals for the last 40 years
undeterred
Jul 2012
#51
I don't think you can link the lapse of the assault weapons ban to the drop in gun deaths.
Bucky
Jul 2012
#22
Intentional homicide rate in the US is four or five times that of Europe
Spider Jerusalem
Jul 2012
#32
Still, our non-gun homicide rate is as high or higher than their total homicide rate
krispos42
Jul 2012
#33