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Gun Control Reform Activism

Kalidurga

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1. We have a violent culture

Reply to flamin lib (Original post)

Wed Jul 1, 2015, 04:52 PM

Jul 2015

it will be violent with or without guns. Guns make it easier so they should be harder to get. Yet, even with that too many mass shooters had done everything legally up to the point of their violent acts. Many of them would have even met any proposed laws that I have seen. We need to work toward a culture that makes people feel secure in their identity. Such people rarely commit a violent act and if they do it's in actual self defense because they were attacked violently and it's not about some perceived theoretical threat to their identity.

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Stop blaming mental health for gun violence. The problem is guns. [View all] flamin lib Jul 2015 OP

We have a violent culture Kalidurga Jul 2015 #1

There are a ton of things we need to do.... daleanime Jul 2015 #2

"done everything legally" flamin lib Jul 2015 #4

Yes it's true it's too easy to get guns Kalidurga Jul 2015 #5

Let me clarify that I didn't think you were defending the way things are, indeed the commentary on flamin lib Jul 2015 #6

Thank you Kalidurga Jul 2015 #9

Being raised in a violent alcoholic Faux pas Jul 2015 #3

I'd say the problem is not guns, per se, but GUN CULTURE. Maedhros Jul 2015 #7

We need to take a lesson from the Aussies NV Whino Jul 2015 #8