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In reply to the discussion: (x-post from LBN) AG Maura Healey: We will win gun lawsuit [View all]discntnt_irny_srcsm
(18,577 posts)40. re: "...alcohol and guns..."
I guess that's why there's special agency for them. That's 2 of the 4 in alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives.
I have it on good authority that a former supervisor when appoint me as Secretary of Analogy when he's elected President.
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discntnt_irny_srcsm
Oct 2016
OP
I know that we're better at controling fully-automatics than we are at controling semi-automatics.
stone space
Oct 2016
#20
Bicycles kill three times as many people annually as semiautomatic rifles do....
benEzra
Oct 2016
#8
Alcohol is a drug. For some people, guns are not a drug, so your analogy fails.
stone space
Oct 2016
#28
Both are semi-controversial consumer products that lead to some deaths from abuse,
benEzra
Oct 2016
#37
Much of American prohibition history is based on the repugnancy of physical images...
Eleanors38
Oct 2016
#42
I may be mistaken, but haven't you advocated for a complete ban of all firearms?
Marengo
Oct 2016
#9
Healy is too ignorant and ideologically blinkered to know it would be a pyrric victory.
pablo_marmol
Oct 2016
#38
Going off the reservation usually doesn't bode well for the long term.
discntnt_irny_srcsm
Oct 2016
#41
Healy is also an activist Drug Warrior, joining with the GOP governor of MA.
Eleanors38
Oct 2016
#43