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ananda

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3. For the past 20 years, my biggest beef with issues like this...
Sun Feb 12, 2023, 01:52 PM
Feb 2023

is that we just talk them to death.

Talking is the great American passtime, and there's so
much of it about so many hotbutton issues that they
just die a death of a thousand talk cuts.

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I always found the gun-crazies' objection to the term 'assault rifle' disingenuous Aristus Feb 2023 #1
America Will Never Fix It's Gun Problem SoCalDavidS Feb 2023 #2
For the past 20 years, my biggest beef with issues like this... ananda Feb 2023 #3
The vast number of murders are caused by people using handguns MichMan Feb 2023 #4
We will either have to accept gun violence as normal as heart disease or cancer, or Chainfire Feb 2023 #5
For the most lethal weapon available... krispos42 Feb 2023 #6
Tell that to the families of school children murdered by the weapons. Chainfire Feb 2023 #9
I'd like to reign in all violence krispos42 Feb 2023 #11
We get outraged by mass shootings of several people, with post after post on DU MichMan Feb 2023 #12
So you solution is what? Chainfire Feb 2023 #13
Anyone caught with a gun while committing any crime, gets a mandatory 5 years in prison MichMan Feb 2023 #15
The well-regulated militia will one day make our country uninhabitable.....it's just a matter of ti 303squadron Feb 2023 #7
Until we win the debate and pass successful measures, what is your alternative? tritsofme Feb 2023 #8
There's no debate going on. Everyone has already made up their mind and no one is going to change. HeartachesNhangovers Feb 2023 #10
The 'arguably somewhat regulated malitia' already has a seat at the table- Prairie_Seagull Feb 2023 #14
Military assault rifles are fully automatic and unavailable to the average citizen Bonx Feb 2023 #16
We only point out hyperbolic misuse of terminology when its the other side doing it. nt LexVegas Feb 2023 #17
So, they are already banned. MichMan Feb 2023 #18
This is what needs to be done. old as dirt Feb 2023 #19
Banning rifles like AR-15s and semi-auto AKs will have a limited effect on gun violence SYFROYH Feb 2023 #20
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