He stood his ground?!! (Not?!!)

Socrtease said:
SLAUGHTER? From the left leaning Slate article:

5. Mass shootings aren’t the problem. “The number of public mass shootings of the type that occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary School accounted for a very small fraction of all firearm-related deaths,” says the report. “Since 1983 there have been 78 events in which 4 or more individuals were killed by a single perpetrator in 1 day in the United States, resulting in 547 victims and 476 injured persons.” Compare that with the 335,000 gun deaths between 2000 and 2010 alone.

http://www.slate.com/articles/healt..._deaths_and_self_defense_findings_from_a.html

What gun haters like you realize, is that without mass shootings like the one at Sandy Hook, it's hard to get traction with the general public, so you appeal to the "slaughter" of children to make it appear that there is some sort of mass shooting epidemic when the truth is pools kill more kids in one year than all the deaths from mass shootings. Appeal to emotion is NOT a valid debate technique, nor is it appropriate when attempting to legislate.
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I think you make an excellent point about appealing to emotions hasn't that been a time tested technique used by all involved in politics?
 
ZappasGuitar said:
Why am I not surprised?

I really should have figured out for myself a LOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago that the only answer a gun nut has to gun violence is more gun violence.
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who do you call for when someone is using a gun in a criminal manner? that's right, dumbass. you call another person with a gun. so that must make you a gun nut.
 
Socrtease said:
Owning a gun is a right, not a privilege. We test drivers because driving is a privilege. We don't allow tests to exercise Constitutionally protected rights. The founders of the constitution wrote the second amendment in such a way that it says the right to own a gun existed PRIOR to the writing of the Constitution. Would you be in favor of a written test for voters? We did that once and it failed. Would you be in favor of some sort of written test before you could exercise first amendment rights?
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I noticed you never responded to this post from Soc, Zap. Is it too unreasonable?
 
cawacko said:
I noticed you never responded to this post from Soc, Zap. Is it too unreasonable?
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Did they have cars back then? I wonder if they would consider owning a car a right? I wonder if they considered owning a horse a right or a privelege? They hanged horse thieves. I wonder if they hanged gun thieves?
 
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