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In reply to the discussion: My definition of "sensible" federal gun control law. [View all]flamin lib
(14,559 posts)8. This a perfect example of what is wrong with the American Gun Culture.
Everything is an exercise in how to get more and different guns, not about the violence they can bring in the wrong hands.
If gun deaths were reduced to a few thousand a year all that other stuff would happen because its superfluous. When police on active duty are less likely to be shot than toddlers, when people in their home no longer worry about bullets going through their walls from the street, when battered women stop making the transition from battered to shot then you can start talking about "what's in it for me".
Get your head in the right place.
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Throw in a repeal of the Hughes Amendment banning new manufacture of full autos, and that's one
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#1
+ legislators have no vote without passing a basic aptitude/knowledge test re firearms facts.
NYC_SKP
Apr 2014
#2
That all sounds reasonable but it's all about the hardware, not about gun violence.
flamin lib
Apr 2014
#6
How odd; I thought advocating for an expansion of freedom *was* the right place.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#9
How many young children have been killed in the US with legally owned full auto weapons?
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#11
Hence my call to legalize all drugs. That would reduce the incarceration rate, yes?
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#25
You don't think murderers should be punished? That's a...novel approach to criminal justice.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#33
Were the '86 ban to be repealed, prices would plummet and availability would skyrocket.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#18
You just said this would be just like the assault weapons ban and have no effect.
clffrdjk
Apr 2014
#12
Uh, 30,000 dead people a year? Ya don't care about that? I seriously think you should evaluate you
flamin lib
Apr 2014
#27
Yea but something tells me it won't be long before you try again with the same arguments.
clffrdjk
Apr 2014
#37
Yeah, but I have you on record as not caring about 30,000 gun deaths, so who in hell,
flamin lib
Apr 2014
#38