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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Mar 9, 2018, 01:17 PM Mar 2018

Dragonman - The man who sells "People-Hunting" Guns



Years ago, the boy Mel(Bernstein), living in an apartment above a Jewish deli, got beat up by bullies, grew up, saw New York turn mean, and eventually lit out for the territories, Colorado. Built a world on a scrub hill, looking one way at the beautiful Rockies and the other at all that prairie. People came, and bought, and believed.
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Unlike Dick's Sporting Goods and Walmart—both American corporations that no longer sell AR-15s and semiautomatic weapons, nor to customers under 21 years of age, in the aftermath of the Parkland, Florida, school shooting—the independent gun dealer decides as he or she sees fit, according to his or her own conscience. There's a lot of gray here. Dragonman's oft-stated argument boils down to this: He doesn't control what people do with the weapons once they leave Dragonland any more than the soda company controls how much soda you drink, or the cigarette company controls the cigarettes you smoke

https://www.gq.com/story/dragonman-mel-bernstein-sells-people-hunting-guns
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Dragonman - The man who sells "People-Hunting" Guns (Original Post) packman Mar 2018 OP
The obscene rationalization not fooled Mar 2018 #1

not fooled

(5,801 posts)
1. The obscene rationalization
Fri Mar 9, 2018, 01:20 PM
Mar 2018

for supporting atrocities. Throughout history.

Oh, and for making $$$$$$$$$ off death and suffering.

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