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Gun Control & RKBA

DonP

(6,185 posts)

6. "Conversation" or angry monologue?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Tue Feb 23, 2016, 08:32 PM

Feb 2016

When people around here say they want to "have a conversation about gun violence" it usually means "Shut up and be beaten about the head and shoulders until we get tired of calling you names".

Wonder what this one means?

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Mourners at Kalamazoo vigil call for conversation about gun violence [View all] SecularMotion Feb 2016 OP

Why in the hell did he do it? Damn Iliyah Feb 2016 #1

Because What Good Is An Unused Gun? nt SoCalMusicLover Feb 2016 #3

You should inquire of the 99.99+% of the 80-100+ million legal American gun owners branford Feb 2016 #7

That would be too honest and intelligent for The Controllers, I'm afraid. NT pablo_marmol Feb 2016 #8

Yet, 99.9% of the firearms privately owned in this country GGJohn Feb 2016 #10

Uber violence kills peepoles ileus Feb 2016 #2

I wonder if attention to this will be brief; after all, a billionaire is involved... Eleanors38 Feb 2016 #4

The mourners will converse more than some posters here Eleanors38 Feb 2016 #5

"Conversation" or angry monologue? DonP Feb 2016 #6

The latter. Which (as you yourself have often noted) is usually *all* they ever do. friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 #11

Yes but... discntnt_irny_srcsm Feb 2016 #9

Apparently, he doesn't care to talk about it.... friendly_iconoclast Feb 2016 #12