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morningfog

(18,115 posts)
18. I wonder of the 66% who shot themselves to death, how many would have been effective in
Wed Jul 13, 2016, 03:12 PM
Jul 2016

killing themselves but for ease of access to a gun?

Any solution that does not include limitations and restrictions of access to the common element morningfog Jul 2016 #1
+1 ... 1StrongBlackMan Jul 2016 #2
+2 SCantiGOP Jul 2016 #4
Have you noticed the cracks in the bulwark of gun-ban MSM? Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #41
There are already restrictions and limitations Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #3
Obviously, more restrictions and limitations. As many more as it takes. morningfog Jul 2016 #5
It takes for what exactly? Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #6
To get to zero... ileus Jul 2016 #38
Of course Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #40
So when background checks TeddyR Jul 2016 #7
How many, 26, 39, 49, 102, five more?; is there no magic number? sanatanadharma Jul 2016 #8
You seem bent on mass conversion of the masses by first insulting them. Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #42
Consider this analogy sarisataka Jul 2016 #9
I reject your premise out of hand. Vaccines work. morningfog Jul 2016 #10
A vaccine treats a disease sarisataka Jul 2016 #11
The disease is America's gun death cult. morningfog Jul 2016 #13
That would be the symptom sarisataka Jul 2016 #16
Wrong again. morningfog Jul 2016 #17
and if you do that sarisataka Jul 2016 #19
SHow me. Regardless, if you do that, there are far fewer dead people. morningfog Jul 2016 #20
So you want me to show you but sarisataka Jul 2016 #21
And now include gun violence. morningfog Jul 2016 #22
Here you go sarisataka Jul 2016 #23
The violent death rate discrepency without guns pales in comparison when morningfog Jul 2016 #24
But I proved my point sarisataka Jul 2016 #25
Only marginally so. But you proved the larger point: gun accessibility is the real problem. morningfog Jul 2016 #26
That would be true if sarisataka Jul 2016 #27
I question the prospects for progress... discntnt_irny_srcsm Jul 2016 #33
I wouldn't say 50% to 100% higher homicide rate is marginally higher. Statistical Jul 2016 #30
Oh! The wrongness! I live where Heroin, Cocaine, and meth are available and cheap... Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #43
What an idiotic analogy. morningfog Jul 2016 #44
The Hutu in Rwanda didn't need no stinking guns. Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #45
And another! morningfog Jul 2016 #47
You have been repeatedly check-mated in this argument. Did you know... Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #49
Like pigeons playing chess, you gunners. morningfog Jul 2016 #50
Their suicide problem is acceptable, then? Since they don't use guns? Hey, Zeus Christy. Eleanors38 Jul 2016 #52
You seem to read words unwritten. morningfog Jul 2016 #53
"Only fetshists and NRA deny it." pablo_marmol Jul 2016 #56
Nonsense. Utter nonsense. beevul Jul 2016 #46
It is true, your logical fallacy notwithstanding. morningfog Jul 2016 #48
There was no logical fallacy. N/T beevul Jul 2016 #51
What is the logical fallacy? Marengo Jul 2016 #58
"Guns aren't the symptom, they are the problem." pablo_marmol Jul 2016 #55
It stands to reason that a nation that is always at war, guillaumeb Jul 2016 #32
I would be willing to conceed sarisataka Jul 2016 #34
Are the endless wars a symptom of a capitalist system? guillaumeb Jul 2016 #35
I think both sarisataka Jul 2016 #36
I've always believed that hatred of war morphs into hatred of guns. pablo_marmol Jul 2016 #57
But by are far far less degree. morningfog Jul 2016 #29
Remove all homicides by firearm and the US still has a homicide rate higher than most European ... Statistical Jul 2016 #28
Vaccines treat the disease Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #12
Bye. morningfog Jul 2016 #14
An absolute prohibition on the manufacture, sale, transportation, possession and sale Nuclear Unicorn Jul 2016 #39
I wonder, of the 66% suicide component.. JonathanRackham Jul 2016 #15
I wonder of the 66% who shot themselves to death, how many would have been effective in morningfog Jul 2016 #18
Or without those other items Duckhunter935 Jul 2016 #31
Actually 2 of 6 I know used guns. JonathanRackham Jul 2016 #37
As long as our side continues to brazenly lie........ pablo_marmol Jul 2016 #54
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