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In reply to the discussion: Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]BainsBane
(53,032 posts)7. that's not what the street means
The street means the public, out in circulation.
These are willingly relinquished guns. Yet you people are outraged. I can't even begin to imagine the pathology that causes people to lament guns coming out of circulation more than the tens of thousands of lives lost every year form gun violence.
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Sheriff's East L.A. station holding gun buyback today (funded by forfeiture $$$) [View all]
petronius
Jun 2013
OP
Safes are not an "undue burden under the Second Amendment." Undue burdens are...
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#34
I don't get it. Though not widespread, There is a drip-drip reminder that human resources...
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#48
What group has a commitment to making concealed carry universal? Did you just make that up?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#44
And how many people involved in that shootout were legal gun owners?
friendly_iconoclast
Jun 2013
#70
That's why I'm less supportive of public funds being used, and why this article
petronius
Jun 2013
#22
The story is questionable. They are going to destroy all of them and not keep any as "drop guns"?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jun 2013
#6
I wonder how anonymous this really is. And when will there be a buy-back in Westwood, Santa Monica?
NYC_SKP
Jun 2013
#47
"A good negro is contaminated by the possession of a weapon.... Disarm the Negro."
Eleanors38
Jun 2013
#50
It has been that way since the Lydians invented money in about 700 BCE.
GreenStormCloud
Jun 2013
#80
true but, even more so today as we have really moved away from hunting, farming, gathering,
Tuesday Afternoon
Jun 2013
#81