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In reply to the discussion: YES, THEY WANT TO TAKE YOUR GUNS AWAY [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)41. I knew it wouldn't take long.
The solutions from my side are gun centric because guns are the one common element in the violence and problems we are trying to prevent.
No. They're gun centric because your side doesn't like guns and lays the blame on the gun. Everyone here has seen it time and time and time again, and you guys really just aren't fooling anyone anymore.
Your infatuation and obsession with those death tools have apparently blinded you to this fact.
I knew it wouldn't take long for internet tele-psychology to make its entrance. I guess you failed to divine that I haven't touched a gun in months, and haven't bought a gun in over ten years. I guess you failed to divine that I don't carry a gun or have any desire or intent to. I guess you failed to divine that I don't own any so called 'assault weapons' or have any desire to.
Tele-psychology has left the building...
The only unrealistic solution here is the one you advocate which is to do nothing - and that is not a solution at all.
That sounds a lot like you're saying that its either your way or nothing, and that you're not happy with nothing.
Your side never does that which leads sensible people to believe you don't care about this massive problem and you don't want the violence to decrease or end, possibly because it reinforces your irrational gun obsessions.
Theres tele-psychology entering the building again. He was kicked out. Security? Security!
My side doesn't agree with your conclusion of the nature of the problem, so how on earth could we agree on a solution, eh?
Our society as a whole benefits tremendously if we remove all guns and that benefit greatly outweighs your fragile pysche's want to own one (or dozens).
No, our society would not benefit at all by removing all guns, and that would become very clear in a very short time.
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You know, I don't fear confiscation because the controllers don't have the juice...
Eleanors38
Nov 2015
#4
So your support of something in the Constitution is not extreme but my support is?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#20
You're essentially saying incrementalism is worse than thousands of needless deaths each year.
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#25
We may disagree on the need to repeal the 2A but I do respect your overall Constitution support
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#30
Whose approach is in question? Was this meant to be satirical or do you actually believe this?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#12
Tens of millions may feel that right is important but tens of millions also vote Republican.
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#18
If you want to talk objectively, then people obviously don't need guns - they simply want them.
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#27
I suppose you have a Scarlet Letter system to identify that alleged .1%, right?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#31
You said to focus on the .1% but you never said how to do it. How are we to identify them?
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#33
When multiple people are murdered regularly with a knife or billy club or other object
LonePirate
Nov 2015
#40
Gun lovers, like most lovers, will do anything to protect the beloved....that is clear enough.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#62
.....snip....snip...sniping logic from the debate is of course all the gun lovers have to work with.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#8
Makes sense - the only way to drastically reduce levels of gun-related crime/violence is to
jmg257
Nov 2015
#10
Reduce the number of guns is indeed the only solution now....control the guns by not having them!
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#47
How do you propose to get the 20-25% of the population that own guns to acquiesce?
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2015
#57
Gun love is unquenchable...you have to take away the object of the love.....the gun.
Fred Sanders
Nov 2015
#56