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hack89

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16. It actually started in the 90s when gun control groups screwed up the AWB so badly.

Reply to AndyS (Reply #2)

Mon Dec 27, 2021, 08:29 PM

Dec 2021

Writing a law that didn’t actually ban assault weapons while kicking off a tsunami of political backlash that they were powerless to stop is how we got to our present position of a emasculated gun control movement that seems incapable of doing anything meaningful.

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Gun deaths continued to rise in 2021 [View all] AndyS Dec 2021 OP

Gun Reform SoCalDavidS Dec 2021 #1

It doesn't have to be this way. AndyS Dec 2021 #2

My Representative Is Conservative Michelle Steele SoCalDavidS Dec 2021 #3

I'm in Texas. If not your voice donate to a violence AndyS Dec 2021 #4

I'm Sorry, I Just Feel Like It's A Lost Cause At This Point SoCalDavidS Dec 2021 #5

It does happen. More and more often in fact. AndyS Dec 2021 #6

Northam pushed an assault weapons ban? Polybius Dec 2021 #8

NRA Fundraising SoCalDavidS Dec 2021 #9

It actually started in the 90s when gun control groups screwed up the AWB so badly. hack89 Dec 2021 #16

Rewriting history is not a good idea because you'll have to relive it. AndyS Dec 2021 #17

But the AWB was fatally flawed hack89 Dec 2021 #18

"But the gun control movement is completely incapable of doing that." AndyS Dec 2021 #20

That makes no sense hack89 Dec 2021 #21

More guns in circulation than ever, and gun deaths keep going up gratuitous Dec 2021 #7

If there is any good news in your graph, its that.. SYFROYH Dec 2021 #10

"Its not logical to attribute to them this momentary rise in gun homicides." AndyS Dec 2021 #12

I dont think I've ever claimed guns have nothing to do with gun violence. SYFROYH Dec 2021 #22

They should make full auto conversions illegal fescuerescue Dec 2021 #11

Converting firearms to full auto is illegal EX500rider Dec 2021 #13

They already are. Straw Man Dec 2021 #14

There is a technicality that gunners exploit. AndyS Dec 2021 #15

This is true NickB79 Dec 2021 #19