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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 12:00 am
(May 22, 2018 at 11:40 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Less and less kids will be seeing America becoming great again.
You are forgetting that the world’s population has been increasing at a rate of a billion every twelve years for almost half a century. And we’re still growing...
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 12:38 am
(May 21, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Kit Wrote: Aren't they?
I don't think their murder rate dropped afterwards.
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 12:48 am
Sadly Americans on both sides are not willing to work together on this issue. There are some however like myself that think there should be some kind of middle ground reached, but even that is nearly impossible in today's political climate.
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 3:24 am
(May 23, 2018 at 12:48 am)Libertarian God Wrote: Sadly Americans on both sides are not willing to work together on this issue. There are some however like myself that think there should be some kind of middle ground reached, but even that is nearly impossible in today's political climate.
Oddly, I hear more voices calling for compromise and moderation than I do fanatically immovable people who know WHAT'S NEEDED HERE!
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 6:41 am
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We don;t need to cold dead hands our guns or ban em, you mean? The people on the talking box keep telling me otherwise.
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 6:52 am
(May 23, 2018 at 6:41 am)Khemikal Wrote: We don;t need to cold dead hands our guns or ban em, you mean? The people on the talking box keep telling me otherwise.
Yeah, gotta keep the FUD going or we can't sell death sticks.
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 12:47 pm
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At least until they get a provision allowing them to freely export guns worldwide to active conflict zones. Then the nickels and dimes rednecks are passing out won;t be so crucial compared to the stolen wealth of entire countries in a single unregulated transaction.
There are already too many guns here, you know, markets flooded? It;s hard to make a buck making guns these days, folks are going under left right and center.
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 1:11 pm
(May 20, 2018 at 5:32 pm)ignoramus Wrote: Australia - Colonised by convicts. Access to weapons not allowed.
America - Colonised by the brave and the free. Freedom to be protected at all cost.
Both make sense. 2 completely different beginnings. 2 Radically different endings. Both great democracies.
This is a non-sequitur. Australia had guns for centuries. They passed restrictive gun legislation in 1996. The fact that they were originally a penal colony has zero to do with their current access to weapons.
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 1:14 pm
(May 23, 2018 at 12:38 am)CapnAwesome Wrote: (May 21, 2018 at 6:46 pm)Kit Wrote: Aren't they?
I don't think their murder rate dropped afterwards.
It did: https://www.factcheck.org/2017/10/gun-co...a-updated/
Also worth noting that the number of mass shootings plummeted.
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RE: School Shootings
May 23, 2018 at 1:24 pm
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If australias laws are restrictive enough to satisfy I;m all for it. What would I have to do, send the government a note from myself as a property owner saying I hunt on my property and pass a background check? Show them the gun safety cert I had to get for my hunting license? Send a picture of my ammo safe and trigger locks?
No problem. I had to do most of that already, anyway.
It'd probably take a hell of alot longer to effect the necessary buybacks..but it;s a process, right.
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