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CreekDog

(46,192 posts)
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 07:07 PM Jun 2015

‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens


...“It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past five years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

http://www.theonion.com/article/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-36131
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‘No Way To Prevent This,’ Says Only Nation Where This Regularly Happens (Original Post) CreekDog Jun 2015 OP
Gun lovers think guns are inevitable, but two generations later they could be cured of the delusion bettyellen Jun 2015 #1
 

bettyellen

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1. Gun lovers think guns are inevitable, but two generations later they could be cured of the delusion
Fri Jun 19, 2015, 07:16 PM
Jun 2015

That gun ownership has anything to do with "freedom". It's a ridiculous idea, and you need to be a total anarchist to buy into it. It's simply loving what is familiar and makes you feel powerful. Same as meth.

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