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In reply to the discussion: America is no longer gun-shy about gun control [View all]beevul
(12,194 posts)12. It would be helpful if you first knew what you were talking about.
First we both have to agree that gun nuts fetishize guns, violence and second amendment rights....
We don't have to agree on any such thing. I see you anti-gun folks doing far far more fetishizing that the gun folks. Pro-gun folks see the second amendment the same was as most folks see the first. But you knew that.
fbi is now sitting on million of unchecked background checks
No they aren't.
but because of loopholes just submitting info to the fbi means the gun shop owner or dealer (that's the law abiding one) gets to sell guns as a "straw purchaser" as many a he wants...(as evidenced by the millions of unprocessed background checks)....and the dealer gets to say that he sold only guns with background checks.....because of a technicality in actuality all across america all types of weapons by the millions are sold with virtually no backround check
Good god. Did you wipe these falsehoods clean after pulling them out?
this is how the ame tragedy happened
Is there a translation machine I can run this through so that it makes sense?
even tho laws are being passed in every state about background checks
No, they really aren't. Bloomberg is trying, I grant you that, but it seems his resources are divided between that, and attacking a Democratically elected Democratic Governor, for having the nerve to actually compromise.
....tax payers pay billions of dollars to the government every year to clean up the bloody messes of 10's of thousands of murders....33 thousand last year I think...
There were 11208 gun murders in 2014. Newsflash. That's not "tens of thousands".
and yet bernie has voted 5 times to block the ability of victims families to sue
Victims families can still sue. Just not for the unlawful actions of a third party. But you knew that.
Like I said, it would be helpful if you first knew what you were talking about.
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The number of gun related deaths is 33k. The majority of which are suicides not murders
Press Virginia
Feb 2016
#19
"First we both have to agree that gun nuts fetishize guns, violence and second amendment rights"
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2016
#22
Your interlocutor is having a time-out. Something about gun control seems to induce logorrhea...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#58
It's a sad sight to witness otherwise intelligent people in the throes of false consensus effect
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#29
Someone forgot to inform the citizens of Illinois, Minnesota, and Massachusetts...
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2016
#28