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billh58

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2. The NRA and the gun manufacturers
Tue Aug 9, 2016, 04:51 PM
Aug 2016

promote an arms race between the "good guys" and the "bad guys" while they sell guns to both sides by using fear of other Americans as a marketing scheme.

Second Amendment absolutists and gun lobby apologists use archaic interpretations of the Constitution to spread fear of government tyranny and oppression as an excuse to stockpile arsenals of lethal weapons with no responsibility for their safe storage. The unfortunate result of this irresponsibility is "toddler accidentally shoots sister," or "crime gun traced to recent residential theft."

The whole manly-man "I'm part of a well regulated militia" gun culture is indeed -- completely insane.

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