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Old 08-08-2019, 03:22 AM
 
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No one wants to take away all your precious guns. But explain to me why you need an assault weapon to go hunting or for personal protection.

 
Old 08-08-2019, 03:55 AM
 
Location: Ft Myers, FL
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Sad to see on the nightly news last night that people are so terrified in public spaces that they run and duck for cover at the slightest loud noise. It's like a nightmare scenario. The western world is in a dark place right now.
Terrorized from within. Welcome to our new normal.
 
Old 08-08-2019, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Nowhere
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Sad to see on the nightly news last night that people are so terrified in public spaces that they run and duck for cover at the slightest loud noise. It's like a nightmare scenario. The western world is in a dark place right now.
Thank "progressivism". It is the root of all this insanity in the Western world today. Every bit of it.
 
Old 08-09-2019, 09:52 AM
 
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The fear mongering has helped the security business tremendously. I see more barney fifes around than ever before.
What a joke.
 
Old 08-09-2019, 11:27 AM
 
Location: Boulder, CO
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You can disarm law abiding citizens, but criminals will still have easy access to whatever firearm they want
This sums it up nicely. After all, they're "criminals". Laws don't matter to them.

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Only a fool would believe more gun control is the answer.
Well-meaning, but a fool nevertheless.
 
Old 08-09-2019, 11:47 AM
 
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Every single person (almost) up in Northern Minnesota owns firearms. Heck when I go up there to land, I can hear gunfire all day long some times on the Iron Range.


Yet they have no problem up there with gun homicides.


So it's obviously something more problematic than "progressives" would have us all believe. Guns clearly are not the problem in America because there are many communities where literally every Tom, D-ck and Harry are armed, and yet these communities have no problems with gun-used crime.
 
Old 08-09-2019, 11:50 AM
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Default What has changed in America with Mass shootings?

Entitled young white men who are convinced the world (e.g. feminists, other races, their employer, the gov't) isn't giving them everything they're entitled to. Instead of doing something productive, they sit around brooding and finding self-validating propaganda from like-minded sociopaths on the internet, and abetted by oblivious families, drugs, and easy access to assault weapons, they decide to obliterate a chunk of that uncooperative world to finally get the attention they feel they deserve.
 
Old 08-09-2019, 01:34 PM
 
Location: Nowhere
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Entitled young white men who are convinced the world (e.g. feminists, other races, their employer, the gov't) isn't giving them everything they're entitled to. Instead of doing something productive, they sit around brooding and finding self-validating propaganda from like-minded sociopaths on the internet, and abetted by oblivious families, drugs, and easy access to assault weapons, they decide to obliterate a chunk of that uncooperative world to finally get the attention they feel they deserve.
Whites, by percentage of their race,have little to do with the problem. But I bet you know this.
 
Old 08-09-2019, 06:49 PM
 
Location: near bears but at least no snakes
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In case anyone wants to take a look at gun laws in other countries, this is interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overvi...laws_by_nation

Funny, how there's very little to zero gun violence where there are strict gun laws.

And when Germany instituted stricter gun laws around 2008/9 they did cite probable causes as being tv violence and video games as possible causes. Also, our society is sick.
 
Old 08-09-2019, 07:26 PM
 
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What has changed in America?

It used to be that when a person snapped they would kill themselves.
Then it was killing the person that had pushed them over the edge such as their boss and this type of murder spawned the term "going postal". Or a ex husband would kill his ex wife.
Then it was "death by Cop" where a deranged person would threaten to commit a crime, the cops would come and the person would act in such a way that the cops had to protect themselves or someone else and put a stop to that threat.
Now the deranged try to kill as many innocent people as they can using either a gun, bomb, knife or car and then they wait for the cops to arrive to kill them.

What has changed in America that has pushed people so far that they are willing to commit terrible acts against as many innocent people as possible?

We don't hear too much about mailmen going postal anymore so what did the PO do to change this behavior and can it be applied to our current society to stop the mass killings?
15 minutes of TV fame........Columbine started this mess
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