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Gun Control & RKBA

krispos42

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5. This from the people that froth endlessly over...

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Sun Dec 20, 2015, 11:10 PM

Dec 2015

rifles that are used one-tenth as often to murder as handguns.

And not even that much. "Assault weapon" rifles are only a part of the category of "rifles".

And how much your side bitches and moans and panics and damns a rifle designed six decades ago by a guy named Eugene Stoner... I'm sure that's totally sane and not at all a knee-jerk, emotional, anti-intellectual reaction to a spate of right-wing-media-driven stochastic terrorism, right?

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7 demented ways America thinks about guns [View all] SecularMotion Dec 2015 OP

"Fear and ignorance" are the currency of prohibition advocates of all stripes. benEzra Dec 2015 #1

Indeed, only a statisically insignificant number of people died... Jerry442 Dec 2015 #3

So, how many lives per year would be saved by outlawing rifle handgrips that stick out? benEzra Dec 2015 #6

I find it funny the url has the author summed up perfectly. ileus Dec 2015 #2

So, any word on when the N. Y. Post and Salon will be merging? Eleanors38 Dec 2015 #4

This from the people that froth endlessly over... krispos42 Dec 2015 #5