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UTUSN

(70,686 posts)
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 02:02 PM Aug 2019

Take a guess how the local radio wingnut commemorated the victims of the shootings!1

Why, of course, with featured interviews and callers celebrating *GUNS* - open carry, long arm carry, whatever else the f*** kind of carry, how to get legal aid if gunners are challenged by law enforcement - all things GUNS!1

And he attracted a slew of callers who are GUN LOVERS who grew up with GUNS and GUNS in their pick-ups, GUNS shooting rabbits, dads who raised their little daughters with GUNS. GUNS GUNS GUNS!1

And the whole celebration being chock full of canards about GUNS, like how "good guys with GUNS will solve bad guys with guns," this despite that law enforcement is on record as NOT wanting helter skelter vigilantes running around an active shooter scene all GUNNED UP. And the callers especially spouted the GUN canard about how GUNS are like cars, that cars can kill people but it’s not the car’s fault, so GUNS are like cars because cars don't pull triggers.

Yip, that's how this local radio talkshow wingnut took the opportunity of two gun massacres to commemorate.










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Take a guess how the local radio wingnut commemorated the victims of the shootings!1 (Original Post) UTUSN Aug 2019 OP
I love that car argument Cartoonist Aug 2019 #1
Must be insured malaise Aug 2019 #2
can have their license revoked for mis-using a gun DBoon Aug 2019 #3
Owners must have a vision test too. StarryNite Aug 2019 #4
Their argument is that the Constitution doesn't give you the right to drive. CrispyQ Aug 2019 #5
+1000. n/t PandoraAwakened Aug 2019 #6

Cartoonist

(7,316 posts)
1. I love that car argument
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 02:22 PM
Aug 2019

So I guess they'd be OK with the same regulations on cars.

Must be old enough
Must have lessons
Must be tested regularly
Guns must be tested for safety
Must require safety features
Must be registered and licensed
Cannot operate under the influence.
More?

DBoon

(22,363 posts)
3. can have their license revoked for mis-using a gun
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 02:30 PM
Aug 2019

safety test of the firearm part of annual licensing

Owners must carry a gun license and take tests regularly to prove they are fit to use it

CrispyQ

(36,461 posts)
5. Their argument is that the Constitution doesn't give you the right to drive.
Thu Aug 8, 2019, 03:34 PM
Aug 2019

So regulations for driving are fine, but not for guns.


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