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In reply to the discussion: Gun in hand, 68 year old woman saves boyfriend in attack [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)37. I am not the poor debater here...
does the NRA control the Republican Congress or not?
Because EVERY Democrat KNOWS that is true!
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should we just start posting every single gun fatality on that occurs ...on DU?
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#1
Perhaps it would drown out all these desperate posts trying to prove guns
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#6
Take out the suicides and you have appox 8,000 firearm deaths per year in the US,
GGJohn
Nov 2015
#101
In Japan, if a husband killes his wife and three kids, it is nit recorded as a murder/suicide.
oneshooter
Nov 2015
#147
Don't we have sooooo many "irresponsible gun owners" in this country???
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#111
beevulhasn't cited, nor posted links from, the NRA. YOU, on the other hand,
Ghost in the Machine
Nov 2015
#84
Now its congresses fault that you're a poor debater without any reliable source material?
beevul
Nov 2015
#35
statistics......you mean the statistics the NRA controlled REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#36
Well duh! That post just cited a recent gun control related CDC study ordered by President Obama
DonP
Nov 2015
#133
triple DUH! and I just showed YOU how the NRA runs Congress AND then the CDC
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#140
Prove what? Good night and better luck next time, with your "approach" to discussion you need it
DonP
Nov 2015
#69
More exclamation points and all CAPS doesn't make you sound any less desperate or foolish
DonP
Nov 2015
#79
Vanilla, in a hurricane of gun-banner postings of killings, you found a fetid breeze?
Eleanors38
Nov 2015
#131
Nearly 10,000 American children are injured or killed by guns every year
VanillaRhapsody
Nov 2015
#136