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2017-12-01 -Land of the Free

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Posted by badanov 2017-12-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 If only we could pass just the right laws, create the perfect rule set, we could finally achieve a Perfect Society and end hate, violence and murder. (Wait, don't we already have laws against killing people? Shut up, he explained)

The fallacy underlying banning guns is the idea that if we remove the tool, we stop the impulse. But murder is more about intent than implements. In Britain, they got rid of guns and suddenly found themselves in an epidemic of knife crimes. Murder is fungible, if you will. People with intent will find a way.

Posted by SteveS 2017-12-01 01:49|| 2017-12-01 01:49|| Front Page Top

#2 The NRA routinely supports measures that keep guns away from the insane. The crank who wrote this piece is simply a militant ignoramus who won't let facts get in the way of his hatred.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2017-12-01 08:29|| 2017-12-01 08:29|| Front Page Top

#3 On the other hand, if the NRA had a conscience, they wouldn't have sent me three "give us your money" letters a week for the past year

Posted by Vortigern Jones5155 2017-12-01 09:20|| 2017-12-01 09:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I believe their conscience is of a higher order - that of preventing oppressive authoritarian/totalitarian government destroying our basic human liberties. Of which, hundreds of thousands of our fellow citizens have already given their 'last full measure of devotion' to prevent.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-12-01 10:57|| 2017-12-01 10:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Where's the part of the story where the NRA Good Samaritan shot this POS and stopped his murdering rampage?

Posted by JohnQC 2017-12-01 11:17|| 2017-12-01 11:17|| Front Page Top

#6 Where's the part of the story where the NRA Good Samaritan shot this POS and stopped his murdering rampage?

Buried in this line.

killed 26 people before apparently taking his own

Everything subsequent is posturing.

Posted by swksvolFF 2017-12-01 12:59|| 2017-12-01 12:59|| Front Page Top

#7 In the words of the great Archie Bunker:

"Would it make you feel any better, little girl, if they was pushed out of windows?"

Posted by gorb 2017-12-01 13:08|| 2017-12-01 13:08|| Front Page Top

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