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Why More Americans Want to Own Guns

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Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 2:04 pm
I guess you ARE an authority on school yard shit. How's Junior High these days?
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 2:16 pm
(February 13, 2016 at 2:04 pm)Gawdzilla Wrote: I guess you ARE an authority on school yard shit. How's Junior High these days?

Hows the 3rd grade? Not that I really give a fuck what you think on anything at this point.

You can argue the topic based on the facts, or you can take your issues and go fuck yourself with them - your choice.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 2:31 pm
Time for a comedic intermission:

One of those pansy liberals asked me, "Can you shoot anyone without a gun?"

I replied, "That's rather a loaded question!"

Ah.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 2:37 pm
(February 13, 2016 at 5:54 am)downbeatplumb Wrote:
(February 12, 2016 at 5:04 pm)CapnAwesome Wrote: Yeah, but mass shooting and 'gun deaths' aren't the issue that I'm addressing. Which is the claim that banning guns is going to reduce the homicide rate. Which it didn't in the UK.

There has been a rise in criminal gang activity in the UK and a sharp rise in the population with very little in the way of gun related gun deaths. It seems likely that without gun regulation gun deaths would have increased.
What you seem to be saying is that America and Americans are by nature more prone to shooting people. Is this really your argument?

Not by their nature, probably because of a wide variety of complicated issues, wealth disparity, poverty, culture etc. But yeah, I mean I think the data backs that up pretty well; the UK has always had a lower murder rate then the US, even when their gun laws were similar. The gun laws in the UK didn't change the murder rate there, I don't see why they would in the US.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 2:53 pm
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 5:59 pm
(February 13, 2016 at 1:04 am)pool the great Wrote: Oh i'm sorry, i didn't realize you had "the great" after Thumpalumpacus.


Oh wait.....you don't.
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*yawn* You bore me. Goodbye.

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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 7:18 pm (This post was last modified: February 13, 2016 at 7:26 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 13, 2016 at 1:24 pm)pool the great Wrote: Thats like saying car related deaths are not caused by cars but carelessness, remove the car and it'll still happen.
I think we ought to not assert gun related deaths wouldve happened without guns one way or another...we simply cannot know..
Plus if gun regulations bring down a tiny percentage of deaths no matter how small it's still lives saved,who knows that saved lifes could be you or one of your family..?
Gun deaths are not related to carelessness to any statistically noticeable amount.  Six out of ten are suicide, the remaining four are murders.  Gun regulations -don't- bring deaths down, that's the elephant in the room.
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 7:38 pm
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 8:22 pm
I didn't just see a slippery slope tirade upstream, did I?
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RE: Why More Americans Want to Own Guns
February 13, 2016 at 10:54 pm
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