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Let's Call Gun Violence What It Is: A Public Health Disaster
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| 10-7-15
| Crawford Kilian
Posted on 10/11/2015 5:23:59 PM PDT by smokingfrog
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The stupid is strong with this Canadian novelist ..
To: smokingfrog
AIDS kills 10,000+ per year.
Where is the similar response from leftists?
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:27:03 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
To: smokingfrog
Others, including the ineffable Donald Trump, have blamed Roseburg on the lack of guns. If only the teacher and his students had been packing, he argued, they would have made short work of the shooter. Knowing what I do about teachers and soldiers, I doubt that arming them would have done anything but raise the body count through friendly fire. If guns can't solve the problem, then why does the IRS [OK, really us taxpeasants] employ armed guards in their Taxpayer NonAssistance Centers?
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:27:34 PM PDT
by
kiryandil
(Maya: "Liberalism Is What Smart Looks Like to Stupid People")
To: smokingfrog
Well, he is Canadian, after all.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:27:43 PM PDT
by
arthurus
(It's true.)
To: smokingfrog
I fixed one of the paragraphs for him:
The country is the U.S., and the disease is mental illness. In 2013, 33,636 died that way, bringing the total since 2001 to 406,496 -- the figure includes mentally ill people involved in homicides, accidents and suicides.
To: smokingfrog
Are his numbers correct. If so three times that amount are killed by doctors through prescription mistakes. Should we execute doctors or Pharmacists? Democrats in their soft headed or soft headiness forced the release of most in mental hospitals so they must accept part blame for the murders. Look how many millions will not get the first breath because of abortion. We have a small amount of writers that think they are journalists spreading minority views thought the media.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:31:12 PM PDT
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red in Blue PA
How many babies in the US are murdered by abortion each year?
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:31:33 PM PDT
by
Arm_Bears
(Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
To: smokingfrog
more’die in car accdents.
far, far, far more die in abortions.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:31:52 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Red in Blue PA
plus they force us to subsidize incredibly expensive drugs for each one to keep doing their perverse sex life choices - ie screwing everything that moves - that got them aids in the first place.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:33:23 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: smokingfrog
Don’t forget buckets, swimming pools, garage doors,
and plastic bags too...
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:34:22 PM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: smokingfrog
Guns are not violent. People are. How about we ban people?
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:34:52 PM PDT
by
dforest
To: Red in Blue PA
if they treated guns like voting, aids or abortion, the libs would be demanding no waiting periods, no fed tracking, no showing licenses or papers, and demanding the government subsidize gun buyers for each firearm they purchase, because it’s in the constitution.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:36:05 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: smokingfrog
If the teachers at Sandy Hook could have a do-over, I’m betting they prefer to have faced Adam Lanza with a gun of their own.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:36:18 PM PDT
by
umgud
(v)
To: smokingfrog
I note that he bravely accepts no comments on his treatise.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:37:02 PM PDT
by
D_Idaho
("For we wrestle not against flesh and blood...")
To: smokingfrog
And car accidents, which such carnage dwarfs violence committed with a gun? Also a Public Health Disaster?
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:38:46 PM PDT
by
Lazamataz
(Ok. We won't call them 'Anchor Babies'. From now on, we shall call them 'Fetal Grappling Hooks'.)
To: smokingfrog
As long as the Nazi and Commie liberals continue to blame inanimate objects, the killings will continue. To all you commie libs trying to disarm Americans, KMA!!!! If you want “gun control”, move to North Korea! Morons!
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:39:19 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Normal people don't vote Democrat.)
To: D_Idaho
There are quite a few comments. One or two good ones.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:39:20 PM PDT
by
smokingfrog
( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
To: smokingfrog
Semmelweiss broke down, was committed to an asylum, and within two weeks was dead after being beaten by his guards. A similar fate awaits any American politician who even whispers about gun control.
Hope so.
The author does admit that 2/3rds of US gun deaths are suicides.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:39:44 PM PDT
by
MUDDOG
To: smokingfrog
The answer is still NO, you can’t have them.
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:40:22 PM PDT
by
skeeter
To: smokingfrog
>>If a disease killed 30,000 a year in one country, you’d expect a travel warning.
You mean, like cigarettes or abortion?
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posted on
10/11/2015 5:41:07 PM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
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