After the eighth school shooting in seven weeks – some gun control proposals

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  1. storch

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    According to your reasoning there, there should be no guns at all. So just to clarify, is that your position?
     
  2. Okiefreak

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    That's right.
     
  3. storch

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    I know. Hard to believe, ain't it?
     
  4. Toggle Almendro

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    Incapacitating an attacker before he can harm you is a utilitarian benefit of guns.
     
  5. Kerri

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    sooo, if that happened 350,000 times last year in America precisely because the intended victim was able to shoot their would-be attacker, statistically speaking you'd be 0.1% safer than people without a gun. That's of course before you deduct injuries from any accidental shootings and for people that were murdered like the 26,000 children have been in schools since Columbine (America as you know has 95% of the worlds child gun deaths)
     
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    I disagree. That's what a SWAT team does, not campus patrol.
     
  7. machinist

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    Abortion kills way more peopme than guns.

    Junk food kills way more people than guns.
     
  8. storch

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    Really? I had no idea that 26,000 children had been murdered in schools since Columbine . . . and neither do you. Tell me, where did you find that figure?
     
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    Plus I dont think even she understands her math about the 350,000 etc and .01%

    The CDC has found that guns are effective in self defense
     
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    You made a remark about rifle fire and Kevlar body armor.
    I had thought the NH shooters had Kevlar armor, but I couldn't confirm it.
     
  11. MeAgain

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    The car arrangement is pretty stupid and we've been over it multiple times.
     
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    That seems to be the strategy.
     
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  13. unfocusedanakin

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    The CDC is not able to study guns one way or the other. It is false statement to say they have supported gun defense. The NRA can twist the data around all they like. But they ensure that guns can not be studied therefore "no data to say they are a risk".
     
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    Concerning your problem with pistol grips, is it that shooters are able to shoot from the hip and be less accurate (which doesn't make sense), or does it simply remind you of an automatic weapon, and you don't like that? State your case.

    I think you think they look scary, so you don't want anyone to have one on their rifle. The truth is that they serve an ergonomical function. Do you believe that making the grip more comfortable for the wrist is what causes people to decide to shoot other people?

    There are probably 5 million AR-15s in the U.S. How many have been used in school shootings? How many have been used in mass shootings?

    How many bullets do you think is a reasonable amount for me to have?
     
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  16. Kerri

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    For the life of me I can’t ubderstabd why we care at all what fringe cult groups like the nra think. Until they have half the members of Scientology I don’t think they should be taken seriously.
     
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    And this from the person who believes that 26,000 kids have been murdered in school since Columbine. Seriously?
     
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    Sorry its not CNN
     
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    Do you have a link to the actual study
     
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