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ithinkmyliverhurts

(1,928 posts)
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 12:11 AM Jul 2012

Can we all agree on one simple premise about guns? Guns don't kill people:

People kill people far more quickly, efficiently, in greater numbers, and from a safer distance with guns.

I would think after this week of flame wars, debates, etc., we could at least agree on this simple principle since this is a position both sides seem to have staked out and articulated repeatedly and is a position which is really irrefutable.

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Can we all agree on one simple premise about guns? Guns don't kill people: (Original Post) ithinkmyliverhurts Jul 2012 OP
Well now that that's settled, let's discuss that Israeli Palistine problem. NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #1
Bwah! gateley Jul 2012 #3
HI! NYC_SKP Jul 2012 #4
That's right! longship Jul 2012 #2
Agreed!!! Blaming guns for killing people is like blaming my pen for spelling erros! nt JoeInNy Jul 2012 #5
Yes, and the dumber you are, ithinkmyliverhurts Jul 2012 #7
Nukes don't kill people either. People kill people. So why can't everyone have a nuke? sabrina 1 Jul 2012 #8
Exactly loyalsister Jul 2012 #6
Thermonuclear weapons don't kill people. boppers Jul 2012 #9
Which simple premise? That a gun, all on its own, doesn't kill, or that people with guns kill more uppityperson Jul 2012 #10
Yes. ithinkmyliverhurts Jul 2012 #11

longship

(40,416 posts)
2. That's right!
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 12:23 AM
Jul 2012

It's the bullets.

Outlaw bullets and people can have all the guns they want. And maybe 10,000 more people a year will be able to live.


Fuck these gun threads. Enough is enough.

Back to the gungeon with them, which I blissfully ignore due to all the chair throwing idiots on all sides of the issue.

Why can't we all get along. When it comes to fucking guns, apparently we can't. Wherein lies the problem? Just maybe it's the fucking guns!

ithinkmyliverhurts

(1,928 posts)
7. Yes, and the dumber you are,
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 12:51 AM
Jul 2012

and the quicker the ball on your ball-point can get the ink to the page, the more quickly and horribly you will butcher the English language. And now pretend you aren't writing letters but shooting faces. That's where your analogy has to go.

uppityperson

(115,677 posts)
10. Which simple premise? That a gun, all on its own, doesn't kill, or that people with guns kill more
Thu Jul 26, 2012, 01:17 AM
Jul 2012

quickly, in greater numbers and from a safer distance?

Which is the premise?

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