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Gun Control Reform Activism

SunSeeker

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12. Gun Control IS people control.

Reply to Sancho (Reply #8)

Wed Aug 27, 2014, 12:21 PM

Aug 2014

And I absolutely agree, we need to make it much harder for some some people to have guns. But no civilian should own a semi-automatic (let alone full auto) assault rifle/submachine gun.

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