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Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Police lives are put at risk by a country awash in guns [View all]DetlefK
(16,670 posts)27. Meanwhile they hold gun-raffles to push more guns into the population.
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        Again, homicide and suicide are different things that will require different solutions.
        EX500rider
        Feb 2018
        #34
      
        
        If jumping off a bridge isn't bridge violence and hanging yourself isn't rope violence..
        EX500rider
        Feb 2018
        #42
      
        
        If all guns were locked away in militia buildings as the Constitution suggests
        Eliot Rosewater
        Feb 2018
        #16
      
        
        If this was the original intent, can you provide examples where it was enforced?
        Marengo
        Feb 2018
        #17
      
        
        Got an Encylopedia Britanica handy? You'll have finished reading it before you get an answer...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Feb 2018
        #18
      
        
        I was held at gun point. My though wasn't 'why don't I have a pistol', but 'how did the 16yr old...
        marble falls
        Feb 2018
        #20
      
        
        Shouldn't police officers be on the forefront of gun control - and why aren't they?
        demosincebirth
        Feb 2018
        #5
      
        
        A small price to pay so a subset of Americans can have fun shooting up cans and signs.
        Kablooie
        Feb 2018
        #8
      
        
        If you familiarize yourself with the OP's, ahem, "body of work", a question naturally arises:
        friendly_iconoclast
        Feb 2018
        #19
      
        
        Could this fact be one of the reasons why the federal government is pushing municipalities
        no_hypocrisy
        Feb 2018
        #29
      
        
        Yes that's exactly the justification given. If we banned handguns and semi-autos we could
        sharedvalues
        Feb 2018
        #40
      
        
        Ahem: Australian cops upgun: "(Victoria) Police set sights on faster reloading guns"
        friendly_iconoclast
        Feb 2018
        #44
      
        
        Your proof that we need more gun control is proof that gun control doesn't work.
        Always Right
        Mar 2018
        #48
      
        
        ...nor is rote recitation of simplistic platitudes and appeals to emotion
        friendly_iconoclast
        Mar 2018
        #51
      
        
        Proof here.  NRA afraid of data.  That's why they banned govt from collecting it.
        sharedvalues
        Mar 2018
        #54
      
        
        You need to tap the base of the turntable a few times, the record keeps skipping...
        friendly_iconoclast
        Mar 2018
        #56
      
        
        I'll let that comprehensive study speak for itself abt effects of NRA fed funding ban.  n/m
        sharedvalues
        Mar 2018
        #59
      
        
        Stop misrepresenting.  RAND study shows GOP blocks fed research on guns.  read my cite. nm
        sharedvalues
        Mar 2018
        #62