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Gun Control Reform Activism

billh58

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2. The American "cold dead hands" gun culture

Reply to Fred Sanders (Reply #1)

Thu Sep 14, 2017, 04:05 PM

Sep 2017

is a small percentage of the population, but the right-wing gun lobby's aggressive marketing tactics and their political influence has flooded our streets and communities with an overabundance of unregistered and unaccountable lethal weapons.

The ease with which almost anyone can buy an untraceable gun has directly caused the gun violence epidemic in this country, which is unequaled by any other developed country in the world.

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MORE weapons of daily mass destruction than people. An American sickness. Fred Sanders Sep 2017 #1

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