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Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

(12,148 posts)

7. The gun control lobby has become a parody of itself.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Sat Aug 22, 2015, 10:19 AM

Aug 2015

A racist loser passed a background check thanks to an unfortunate FBI clerical error, and then murdered nine people with a low-capacity (and very ordinary) .45 caliber pistol.

The response from the gun control side is "Yay, maybe we can ban some more rifles this time! And magazines! Or at least we can tell people we will, even if we don't have the votes!"

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Senator to push S.C. gun-control bills [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP

Only under the gun control reality distortion field... beevul Aug 2015 #1

I certainly would need more information on TeddyR Aug 2015 #2

Hmm. Our long-gone neighbor's "Sweet Sixteen" Browning would be banned... Eleanors38 Aug 2015 #5

Wonder how far along this will go... ileus Aug 2015 #3

It's gone about as far as it ever will - a press release DonP Aug 2015 #4

I'm confused. Controllers often push for GC laws on the federal level on the assumption Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #6

The gun control lobby has become a parody of itself. benEzra Aug 2015 #7