Gun Control & RKBA

gejohnston

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28. there are mass murders everywhere

Fri Oct 9, 2015, 12:01 PM

Oct 2015

regardless of gun laws and don't even need to use guns. European news isn't often reported in the US. Off the top of my head I can think of four mass shootings in Europe, three with automatic weapons. Do you think Sweden and France passed stricter gun laws, like banning machine guns? Oh wait, they did decades ago. Australia? Mass murders by arson and Sydney having 100 plus drive by shootings in an eighteen month period? Shootings make national news.
Did the Happy Land Fire get the same coverage as any shooting? This was a guy that got mad with his girlfriend and murdered 87 people with a can of gas and a match.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Land_fire

Even if you ban guns and you actually save the people killed, they will be offset by those would have saved their life with a gun, if they had one. Meanwhile, criminals will still get their guns just like addicts get their heroin and meth. That is why Australia and UK had a spike then back to where it was before. BTW, heroin deaths outpaced gun murders last year.

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Calling for Universal background checks again?! [View all] virginia mountainman Oct 2015 OP

Spell check "unaversal". n/t Binkie The Clown Oct 2015 #1

Done fixed it, nt virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #3

i agree they dont go far enough saturnsring Oct 2015 #2

Far enough? virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #4

A ban on repeating firearms mwrguy Oct 2015 #9

Nope, they have been mass produced for well over one hundred and twenty years virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #12

A ban on an item that's been around for more than a century? GGJohn Oct 2015 #15

Actually almost 150 years.. virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #20

"Repeating" firearms pablo_marmol Oct 2015 #23

"A ban on repeating firearms" doen't sound like any sort of background check... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2015 #27

I say TeddyR Oct 2015 #5

problem is there will not stop then Duckhunter935 Oct 2015 #7

I have heard the gun control advocates say "just one more thing" virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #21

Exactly. Kang Colby Oct 2015 #30

hair on fire we have to do something!!! Duckhunter935 Oct 2015 #6

Yea, they like to PRETEND that gunshows are a location.. virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #8

Got it jehop61 Oct 2015 #10

Cars are only required by law to be insured when used on public roads. beevul Oct 2015 #11

Care to name any other civil liberty that reqires insurance?? virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #13

Name any other civil liberty that requires a militia? safeinOhio Oct 2015 #17

Let me help you with this.. virginia mountainman Oct 2015 #19

Love your example needledriver Oct 2015 #22

Great idea, the NRA and Wayne LaPierre thanks you for the money DonP Oct 2015 #14

Felon Pens a “Heartfelt Thank You to the NRA” for Opposing Universal Background Checks SecularMotion Oct 2015 #16

Yeah theres someone who clearly needs to be let out of prison... beevul Oct 2015 #25

There cannot and will not be federal UBCs now or ever..it would be overturned before it took effect. pipoman Oct 2015 #18

"Here they go again, reaching for the hot stove in an election year...." pablo_marmol Oct 2015 #24

Yes let's just do nothing about gun violence upaloopa Oct 2015 #26

there are mass murders everywhere gejohnston Oct 2015 #28

A person was interviewed today on tv bkkyosemite Oct 2015 #29