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Old 04-22-2015, 04:27 PM
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If you call that "repelling...."
Well, they're gone, aren't they?
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Old 04-22-2015, 09:04 PM
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If crime is down, why do we need gun control? Sounds like everyone is wearing a halo to me.
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Old 04-22-2015, 09:14 PM
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If crime is down, why do we need gun control? Sounds like everyone is wearing a halo to me.
Why do you think this even makes sense?
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Old 04-22-2015, 09:23 PM
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Why do you think this even makes sense?
According to you, people aren't as likely to commit violent crime. Crime has been dropping while states are loosening gun control laws & allowing people to carry.

See how that works?
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Old 04-22-2015, 09:58 PM
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According to you, people aren't as likely to commit violent crime. Crime has been dropping while states are loosening gun control laws & allowing people to carry.

See how that works?
I see wishful thinking, not so much a direct cause-and-effect linkup.

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Old 04-22-2015, 10:26 PM
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According to you, people aren't as likely to commit violent crime. Crime has been dropping while states are loosening gun control laws & allowing people to carry.

See how that works?
I see how it works in your mind but, as the saying goes, correlation is not causation.
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Old 04-22-2015, 10:52 PM
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I need my guns to protect me from all the paranoids and little dick syndrome crazies that have guns.
1. Personified by you.
2. It's no surprise you reside in AL.

TOO EASY.

I bet you were once at the fore of the militia movement? If not, I'm still batting over .500 on this...
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Old 04-23-2015, 06:46 AM
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I see how it works in your mind but, as the saying goes, correlation is not causation.
Just another failed policy like the drug war.
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Old 04-23-2015, 07:28 AM
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1. Personified by you.
2. It's no surprise you reside in AL.

TOO EASY.

I bet you were once at the fore of the militia movement? If not, I'm still batting over .500 on this...
Self-image ala Zeke...

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Old 04-23-2015, 09:02 AM
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Just another failed policy like the drug war.
Gun control has never failed because it has never been a policy.
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