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Gun Control & RKBA

krispos42

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10. I'm doing no such thing

Reply to keithbvadu2 (Reply #9)

Sat Sep 21, 2019, 01:37 PM

Sep 2019

With handguns being used in fully half of all murders, I'd say that your previous statement is just talking-point feelings-driven pablum.

But go on, explain to the audience how the majority of school-age children are murdered with AR-15s.

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When a business decision gets passed off as virtue signaling [View all] friendly_iconoclast Sep 2019 OP

Colt made my M16A1 that I carried in Vietnam. I often slept with it. Good company back then. wasupaloopa Sep 2019 #1

When it... discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2019 #2

They never said their decision was out of virtue it was a business decision wasupaloopa Sep 2019 #3

Exactly discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2019 #4

I am honestly surprised sarisataka Sep 2019 #5

Probably it will happen in my life time. discntnt_irny_srcsm Sep 2019 #12

AR-15, The weapon of choice for killing schoolchildren. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #6

Uh-huh. Straw Man Sep 2019 #7

Sure, we'll go with that krispos42 Sep 2019 #8

So you're using the straw man argument that 20 of those 21 are school children. keithbvadu2 Sep 2019 #9

I'm doing no such thing krispos42 Sep 2019 #10

You stymied a blatant attempt at moral panic-mongering with an inconvenient truth friendly_iconoclast Sep 2019 #11