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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: How do you know the things you know about guns? [View all]krispos42
(49,445 posts)16. Exactly my point.
Gun control, even gun prohibition, will not address domestic abuse, or child abuse, or a dozen other things. But we can't address those dozen-plus other things if you are hell-bent on waging a war against people that want to own rifles with protruding pistol grips.
Addressing the conditions that make violence common will by the very nature of things save lives. But you being hell-for-leather for punishing the "stupid gun-huggers that simply can't see how much their fetish is harming society" will put THEM in the voting booth and REPUBLICANS in the government. And we know how much damage those fuckers can do when they're in office, don't we?
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That's the most forthright argument for willful ignorance I've ever seen
friendly_iconoclast
Mar 2014
#12
It's the only game they have. Honest discourse would lead to defeat of their arguments.
NYC_SKP
Mar 2014
#13
How exactly do you propose confiscating 300 million+ firearms, billions of magazines,
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#18
So you propose making the manufacture of all firearms, magazines, and ammunition illegal.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#23
Dissension from their philosophy of civilian disarmament is too much for them to bear.
Jgarrick
Apr 2014
#25