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Downtown Hound

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6. LOL. Do you actually think I need to suggest it's worse in America?
Wed Oct 13, 2021, 06:43 PM
Oct 2021

America has mass shootings on a nearly daily basis. Norway has had one, the one you mentioned, in the last 10 years. I never said Norway can't have a mass shooting, so you can stop putting words in my mouth. But you'd have to have your head shoved extremely far up your butt to not be aware of that rather basic fact that that gun violence is many times worse in America than it is in not only Norway but virtually every other industrial nation on Earth.

The heavy casualties from Norway's ONE major mass shooting had more to due with the fact that it occurred on an island and the victims had nowhere to run, rather than Norway is just as violent or more violent than the U.S. So don't even try and pretend that this one incident even compares to the nearly daily mass gun violence that the United States has, or that Norway has just as big of a problem or even greater with gun violence than the U.S. does. One single, devastating incident that happened 10 years ago does not compare to the near daily mass shootings that happen in the U.S.





In America, he'd use an AR 15 and there would be Downtown Hound Oct 2021 #1
Or in Norway he'd use a ruger mini-14 and kill 77 and injure 319 mathematic Oct 2021 #4
LOL. Do you actually think I need to suggest it's worse in America? Downtown Hound Oct 2021 #6
well, they actually did OP a favor by tying the story back to national interest... cadoman Oct 2021 #13
And what has that got to do with what happened in Norway? Russian Spook Oct 2021 #9
Showing that common sense gun control as practiced in Europe Downtown Hound Oct 2021 #10
+1 C Moon Oct 2021 #16
Cue NRA whining about banning archery in 5..4..3..2..1.. AZLD4Candidate Oct 2021 #2
It's already in some of the replies here. C Moon Oct 2021 #17
I would rather take a bullet than an arrow. DURHAM D Oct 2021 #3
Yeah that's not a good way to go nt Shermann Oct 2021 #7
Yeah, there is a reason I don't bow hunt for deer. GulfCoast66 Oct 2021 #14
At least five people killed in bow and arrow attack in Norway muriel_volestrangler Oct 2021 #5
The problem with a bow and arrow massacre is the perp doesn't kill himself in the end. Midnight Writer Oct 2021 #8
I'm so sorry for the victims and their families and friends. chowder66 Oct 2021 #11
Nightmare Norwegian. Superiority has its limits. czarjak Oct 2021 #12
Spent a summer in Kongsberg decades ago on the student exchange program. Grokenstein Oct 2021 #15
Danish suspect is Muslim convert who had been on radar of Norway's security service muriel_volestrangler Oct 2021 #18
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