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Childhood’s Greatest Danger: The Data on Kids and Gun Violence

Discussion in 'Gun Control' started by Galileo, Dec 21, 2022.

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  1. Sallyally

    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    My mistake. I thought they were things like Trump making money from his hotels, from government employees having to use them. Lol.
     
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    Sallyally, Dec 28, 2022
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    Turtledude Well-Known Member Donor

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    Projection
     
    Turtledude, Dec 28, 2022
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    Turtledude Well-Known Member Donor

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    seriously?
     
    Turtledude, Dec 28, 2022
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  4. Sallyally

    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Yep. It’s generally thought to be a bit corrupt.
     
    Sallyally, Dec 29, 2022
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    FatBack Well-Known Member

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    So are you prepared to give up your car?
     
    FatBack, Dec 29, 2022
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    Turtledude Well-Known Member Donor

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    and this has to do with the topic of this thread, how?
     
    Turtledude, Dec 29, 2022
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  7. Sallyally

    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    NRA buying influence?
     
    Sallyally, Dec 29, 2022
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    From whom?
     
    Rucker61, Dec 29, 2022
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  9. Turtledude

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    how do you think the NRA compares to say Bloomberg and all three major networks?
     
    Turtledude, Dec 29, 2022
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    many gun banners assume everyone is anti gun unless they get support from the NRA=rather than politicians who naturally support the second amendment, rather than that victim disarmament lobby, getting support from the pro rights side
     
    Turtledude, Dec 29, 2022
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  11. Sallyally

    Sallyally Well-Known Member Donor

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    Pretty similar. Seems to be the American way.
     
    Sallyally, Dec 29, 2022
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    You'd be very wrong. The amount the NRA spends on lobbying is rather small in US Politics. and the free anti gun advertising that CBS, NBC or ABC put into their prime time shows-as well as their biased news reports is many times more propaganda than anything the NRA can do
     
    Turtledude, Dec 29, 2022
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    By how much money the get paid for owning them.
     
    dairyair, Dec 29, 2022
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    Being taught at the age of 8 what a gun is and what it does, what the dos and don'ts are, and imagine the fact I've never fired a gun at a person.

    Children are taught to not touch a hot stove, yet approximately 200,000 children each year suffer burns directly from a hot object, or a scalding from a hot liquid.
     
    Collateral Damage, Dec 29, 2022
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    are Glocks sold at a discount in Botswana or Bangladesh?
     
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    Of course, or not at all.
    They get infringed on I guess.
     
    dairyair, Dec 29, 2022
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    Maybe, just maybe, the increased acceptance of drug use and the increased potency and availability of drugs plays a role here. When social services regularly hand kids back to households where the parent(s) are crack heads and junkies is part of the problem. Maybe when society figures it's "racist" to hold adults accountable for drugs, gangs and criminal activities regularly associated with those things we end up with more kids in homes where the parents just don't give a **** about the kids.
     
    Tucsonican, Dec 29, 2022
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    Rucker61, Dec 29, 2022
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    It was really silly to pretend that makers are going to discount their wares.
     
    Turtledude, Dec 29, 2022
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    the Pro gun side doesn't have thousands of hours of prime time tv entertainment pushing for rights.
     
    Turtledude, Dec 29, 2022
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    I have EDC’d for decades, during which I have interrupted 2 street snatch kidnappings, stopped a group from inflicing violence on a passive drunk, Stopped a robbery of my person ,and stopped a day light break-in of my house; By a fellow who was systematically breaking into houses on my street and, each time I used a gun, but no shot was fired (hmmmm carrying a gun . Doesn’t always require it be fired to end a threat) For me, my decision to carry had benefit and my experience has reinforced my choice to exercise my 2A rights. BTW, my guiding code reserves deadly force; it can only be applied to stop the immediate threat of great bodily harm or threat of death and for no other reason. And, I don’t brandish my weapons (most family and close friends have no Idea I might be carrying; it’s called concealed for a reason… Like a stonefish I melt into the background, but step on me or others around me and….
     
    An Taibhse, Dec 29, 2022
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    Not as silly as not seeing the sarcasm I was posting.
     
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    Given your track record, claiming your specious claims were sarcasm is not worthy of trust
     
    Turtledude, Dec 29, 2022
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    LOL. That's a terrible excuse.
    And not even accurate.
     
    dairyair, Dec 29, 2022
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    I don't find much of what you post on gun issues to be particularly truthful
     
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