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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 5:52 pm
I think he did..... Gun culture = how people (as a whole) think about guns.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:06 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 5:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 5:12 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: Define "gun culture".
The attitudes and behaviour of a society in which guns are used.
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Lol.
That says exactly nothing. It is a atatement so vague that it commits to exactly no ideal.
Like " family values".
Sounds good - but carrys no definition..
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:11 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 6:06 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: That says exactly nothing. It is a atatement so vague that it commits to exactly no ideal
First you say it says exactly nothing and then you say it says something vague. Which is it?
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:14 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 6:11 pm)The L Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 6:06 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: That says exactly nothing. It is a atatement so vague that it commits to exactly no ideal
First you say it says exactly nothing and then you say it says something vague. Which is it?
We'll split the difference between vague ( almost nothing) and nothing.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:21 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 6:14 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 6:11 pm)The L Wrote: First you say it says exactly nothing and then you say it says something vague. Which is it?
We'll split the difference between vague ( almost nothing) and nothing.
So then, almost almost nothing?
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:23 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 6:21 pm)The L Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 6:14 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: We'll split the difference between vague ( almost nothing) and nothing.
So then, almost almost nothing? Exactly.
Almost.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:37 pm
(February 10, 2022 at 6:06 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: (February 10, 2022 at 5:50 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: The attitudes and behaviour of a society in which guns are used.
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Lol.
That says exactly nothing. It is a atatement so vague that it commits to exactly no ideal.
Like " family values".
Sounds good - but carrys no definition..
It’s the only possible definition. Suppose you had asked me to define music culture or food culture or any other culture. I would have answered the same way.
It isn’t meant to commit to any ideal, since there isn’t one single gun culture - it varies from society to society. For example, New Zealand (with a respectably high rate of gun ownership) has a markedly different gun culture that the US or Japan or Indonesia.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:43 pm
So let's see -
Quote: For further clarification, what I usually indict is gun culture. Unquote.
Whatever THAT is.
Clear as mud.
Thanks...
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:47 pm
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(February 10, 2022 at 6:43 pm)onlinebiker Wrote: So let's see -
Quote: For further clarification, what I usually indict is gun culture. Unquote.
Whatever THAT is.
Clear as mud.
Thanks...
Well, the topic seems to be gun violence and how to address it. In societies with high rates of gun violence, the chief cause is the behaviours and attitudes of the people in that society towards guns. I indict a gun culture that leads to violence.
I don’t think I can make it any plainer that that.
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RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 10, 2022 at 6:57 pm
Quote:the attitudes, feelings, values, and behaviour of a society, or any social group, in which guns are used
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictio...un-culture
Because the dictionary embraces terms without a meaning apparently 
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