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Old 10-25-2013, 02:25 PM
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If you are the kind of guy who cares about the feeling of others, then some restraint in such case is advisable, and I would say commendable.

If you aren't, then you aren't.
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Old 10-25-2013, 02:30 PM
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I understand what you mean, but If you disagree with a proposed law you can't say so?

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Old 10-25-2013, 03:36 PM
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Of course you can.

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Old 10-25-2013, 03:52 PM
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It's the difference between a guy who walks around Newtown sticking 'Oppose gun control!' leaflets on everyone's windshield, and a guy who bombs the state with leaflets from 40,000 ft, and some of them land in Newtown.

The first guy definitely committed an outrageously insensitive act; the second probably just didn't think about Newtown being in the target area, and so was negligent, but not (demonstrably) uncaringly offensive.
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Old 10-25-2013, 07:17 PM
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I can't go with the sugar coating, this is the same organization that had already told the people of Newtown to arm the schools with guards and arm the teachers too. That is at least as bad as the other, worse if you wish to dismiss that as an oversight. Nope, I just see evil actions from the NRA these, if others see it all fun and games it is their right.


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Old 10-26-2013, 11:49 PM
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Another one in Phoenix http://www.latimes.com/nation/nation...#axzz2itV38hjX
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Old 10-27-2013, 10:59 AM
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Terrible tally: 500 children dead from gunshots every year, 7,500 hurt, analysis finds
Bill Briggs NBC News

11 hours ago
About 500 American children and teenagers die in hospitals every year after sustaining gunshot wounds — a rate that climbed by nearly 60 percent in a decade, according to the first-ever accounting of such fatalities, released Sunday.

In addition, an estimated 7,500 kids are hospitalized annually after being wounded by gunfire, a figure that spiked by more than 80 percent from 1997 to 2009, according two Boston doctors presenting their findings at a conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics, held in Orlando, Fla.

Eight of every 10 firearm wounds were inflicted by handguns, according to hospital records reviewed by the doctors. They say the national conversation about guns should shift toward the danger posed by smaller weapons, not the recent fights over limiting the availability of military-style, semi-automatic rifles.

“Handguns account for the majority of childhood gunshot wounds and this number appears to be increasing over the last decade,” said Dr. Arin L. Madenci, a surgical resident at Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital and one of the study’s two authors. “Furthermore, states with higher percentages of household firearm ownership also tended to have higher proportions of childhood gunshot wounds, especially those occurring in the home.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/terrib...500-8C11469222

Hmmm, about the same timeframe the nra went from gun owners group into a manufacturing lobbyist pos. Acceptable amount of preventable death? Not to me, but then none is.


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Old 10-27-2013, 11:30 AM
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Had a nephew killed in a hunting 'accident' it is quite different when it is family.
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Old 10-27-2013, 01:01 PM
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Sorry to hear Rob.


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