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Why Americans love their guns (pretty fair piece from the BBC!)
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Posted on 02/20/2016 11:51:07 AM PST by Red in Blue PA
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To: Red in Blue PA
And how many of those 14,000 homicides are gang-bangers killing each other or perps killed while committing crimes?
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:53:25 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The goal of socialism is communism... Hatred is the basis of communism" --Vladimir Lenin)
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Almost all of them. Very few stranger related murders.
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:56:21 AM PST
by
CodeToad
(Islam should be banned and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
To: Red in Blue PA
...leaves approximately 14,000 homicides a year. So what drives people to own guns?
Because many of those 14,000 fatalities were people who needed to be killed?
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:57:59 AM PST
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: CodeToad
As my e-room doctor friend jokes, the first words out of the mouth of a black guy with bullets in him is “I got no idea who shot me”
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posted on
02/20/2016 11:59:45 AM PST
by
nascarnation
(RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
To: Red in Blue PA
Without Americans and guns the BBC would be broadcasting in German.
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:01:47 PM PST
by
CrazyIvan
(Socialists are just communists in their larval stage.)
To: Red in Blue PA
I love my guns at least as much as servile Euro-Trash loves their kings and dictators.
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:02:38 PM PST
by
TTFlyer
To: Red in Blue PA
350 million “registered” firearms? None of my guns were registered before the fire burned my barn to the ground.
Registering guns is a dream of the progressives and would lead to confiscation. We must never have a gun registry.
Keep safe by keeping the 2nd amendment sacred like the rest of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution to which they were added.
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:06:23 PM PST
by
BatGuano
(You don't think I'd go into combat with loose change in my pocket, do ya?)
To: TTFlyer
I love my guns more than Europe loves their rapeugees. Or I did until that tragic boating accident.
To: E. Pluribus Unum
Most of them. Take out Chicago, NOLA, MD, Detroit, the number would tank.
To: Red in Blue PA
between 300m and 350m registered firearms Registered? I doubt it.
but that still leaves approximately 14,000 homicides a year.
Nope. Most deaths by firearm are the result of police shootings.
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:07:48 PM PST
by
SeeSharp
To: Red in Blue PA
300 M to 350 M REGISTERED firearms in the U.S.? I had no idea there were that many machine guns and short barreled shotguns owned by Americans. The author proves his woeful ignorance in the very first sentence.
To: CrazyIvan
Nailed It !
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:11:58 PM PST
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! I reallyRead it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:16:11 PM PST
by
DoughtyOne
(Facing Trump nomination inevitability, folks are now openly trying to help Hillary destroy him.)
To: SeeSharp
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:16:44 PM PST
by
bruoz
To: Red in Blue PA
I couldn’t get the film to play, but I am nauseated by the propaganda line in the excerpt:
“Each year they [firearms] are responsible for about 34,000 deaths.”
When a criminal stabs someone to death in the UK, do they arrest and charge the knife? Does the Queen’s Bench routinely sentence knives to long terms in a locked cutlery drawer? The BBC tells us that inanimate objects are responsible for whatever is done with them, so I must assume they hold that humans who misuse tools are not.
To: Red in Blue PA
So how many people are killed in self defense?
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:24:36 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red in Blue PA
So how many people are killed in self defense?
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:24:57 PM PST
by
mountainlion
(Live well for those that did not make it back.)
To: Red in Blue PA
Spent an awful lot of time videoing a full auto sub gun.
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:26:33 PM PST
by
Vinnie
To: Red in Blue PA
Authors credibility is gone right from the beginning sentence. The guns do not cause the deaths it is the people who cause them.
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posted on
02/20/2016 12:27:18 PM PST
by
orinoco
(Orinoco)
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