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Today's Shooting Already Has Wikipedia Page, But It's TOO SOON To Discuss Gun Violence (Original Post) SoCalMusicLover Nov 2017 OP
Never too early. Ban ALL GUNS from ALL NON-ESSENTIAL PEOPLE...NOW! Fluke a Snooker Nov 2017 #1
We have a right to bear arms. Chemisse Nov 2017 #4
The ONLY sensible control is TOTAL control Fluke a Snooker Nov 2017 #14
So basically you want to kill more people than mass shootings ever could? Calculating Nov 2017 #5
I have no problem killing criminals who want to kill progressives Fluke a Snooker Nov 2017 #15
We have non-essential people? Igel Nov 2017 #6
I have no idea what you are saying. Fluke a Snooker Nov 2017 #16
This is what Republicans THINK that Democrats want to do. n/t Chemisse Nov 2017 #10
And what's your point? Fluke a Snooker Nov 2017 #17
Sounds great sarisataka Nov 2017 #11
It appears there is another church shooting, in CA. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2017 #2
Yep, guy kills estranged wife: dalton99a Nov 2017 #3
A spousal murder/suicide. Seems almost "normal" in these times. n/t rzemanfl Nov 2017 #7
All of those "thoughts & prayers" RWers... MountCleaners Nov 2017 #8
yep brettdale Nov 2017 #12
remember to send thoughts and prayers 0rganism Nov 2017 #9
You mean we have to wait longer than the 26 minutes Ms. Toad Nov 2017 #13
 

Fluke a Snooker

(404 posts)
1. Never too early. Ban ALL GUNS from ALL NON-ESSENTIAL PEOPLE...NOW!
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 05:10 PM
Nov 2017

I don't have to make it any clearer. No guns should be owned by anyone but state law enforcement officers and the military. That includes ALL assault rifles, ALL handguns, even most BB shooters. We make it a major federal crime to OWN guns, and an automatic life sentence to SELL them. People won't give them up? Then we send in the feds and TAKE them, including taking THEM out if they fight back, just like we are already doing to unarmed minorities anyawy. Period. END OF DISCUSSION.

Chemisse

(30,811 posts)
4. We have a right to bear arms.
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 05:18 PM
Nov 2017

Sensible gun control would be banning semi-automatic assault weapons, or at the very least requiring background checks and waiting periods for gun purchases.

Banning all gun ownership violates the Constitution, and we certainly should not be out there taking away people's legally-purchased guns!

 

Fluke a Snooker

(404 posts)
14. The ONLY sensible control is TOTAL control
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 12:29 PM
Nov 2017

Anything less and we get another mass shooting, another "boo hoo, we need to have more gun control." Sorry, I don't play to lose, we need a total ban, just like Australia and most of Europe.

Calculating

(2,955 posts)
5. So basically you want to kill more people than mass shootings ever could?
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 05:28 PM
Nov 2017

Cause that's what will happen if armed govt goons start going door to door 'taking' guns away.

 

Fluke a Snooker

(404 posts)
15. I have no problem killing criminals who want to kill progressives
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 12:30 PM
Nov 2017

And of course they resist. This is not the same thing. We need to criminalize gun owners as they are ALL complicit in every major shooting. Every one.

Igel

(35,309 posts)
6. We have non-essential people?
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 05:44 PM
Nov 2017

What, they're superfluous and subject to being disposed of when convenient?

 

Fluke a Snooker

(404 posts)
16. I have no idea what you are saying.
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 12:31 PM
Nov 2017

Non-essential people do NOT need to have guns. What's the confusion??

 

Fluke a Snooker

(404 posts)
17. And what's your point?
Mon Nov 6, 2017, 12:33 PM
Nov 2017

Republicans think that Democrats want global warming.
Republicans think that Democrats want income equality.
Republicans think that Democrats want to end white privilege.
Republicans think that Democrats want to enforce the separation of church and state.
Republicans think that Democrats want _________.

That's actually the point, you know.

sarisataka

(18,655 posts)
11. Sounds great
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 07:02 PM
Nov 2017

The law enforcement types that people are taking a knee, protesting their violence, get to keep their guns.

Anyone refuses to submit to Authority will be in prison for life or shot.

Sounds like an ideal Society, where can I sign up?

dalton99a

(81,488 posts)
3. Yep, guy kills estranged wife:
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 05:18 PM
Nov 2017
http://abc30.com/woman-killed-man-injured-in-shooting-outside-of-southwest-fresno-church/2607076/

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) --
The shooting happened after services Sunday morning at St Alphonsus Church.

Police say the suspect waited for services to end before opening fire on his estranged wife and a man she went to church with. The woman was killed by the gunfire and the man was taken to the hospital. Police Chief Jerry Dyer said he is listed in critical condition and is not expected to survive...

SWAT team has entered the home where the suspect is believed to be hiding at Thorne and California in Southwest Fresno. When they entered, they found the suspect dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Police have identified the suspect as 64-year-old Manuel Garcia. Police say he killed his 61-year-old wife Martha.

MountCleaners

(1,148 posts)
8. All of those "thoughts & prayers" RWers...
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 06:06 PM
Nov 2017

...are tuning in to Faux News, or following this on Twitter. This shit gets ratings. They're treating it
as entertainment and using it for their own gratification like everyone else. Unless they're currently
on their knees praying for the victims, they're being phony.

Ms. Toad

(34,072 posts)
13. You mean we have to wait longer than the 26 minutes
Sun Nov 5, 2017, 08:12 PM
Nov 2017

Trump waited on Tuesday before calling for increased vetting when the suspect foreign and expected to be connected with islamic extremists?

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