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Negusa Nagast 🚀
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« on: December 14, 2012, 04:42:21 PM »



But how many times must this happen? How many times must innocents die until we wake up and say "enough is enough"! People say it's disrespectful to make this political so soon, and really what they mean is that it's bad business to talk about gun control, ever. What's disrespectful is never looking at the issue in the face and deciding to do something for once. America needs to talk gun control. Now. Not tomorrow. Not next year. Now.

How many people must die so that some can maintain the delusion that their "constitutional" right to overthrow the government can be maintained?

This is the best post in the thread.

We must stop invoking the self-imposed gag rule every time a shooting occurs. Every time we hear that it's "too soon, too sensitive." We need to have the conversation today so it doesn't happen tomorrow. We need to talk guns, we need to talk about our 24/7 media coverage of these events, and we need to talk about our society.
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Negusa Nagast 🚀
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« Reply #1 on: December 15, 2012, 12:13:52 AM »

It seems a lot of you guys think we need more gun control. How exactly will more gun control prevent these kinds of shootings or gun violence in general.

Guns are incredibly deadly weapons. Make it much harder for people to get these incredibly deadly weapons, and fewer people will be slaughtered with them. It's not that complicated.

Caveat: there is a negative relationship between firearm violence and knife violence, which is problematic.

It's much harder to commit a massacre with a blade rather than a firearm.
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Negusa Nagast 🚀
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« Reply #2 on: December 15, 2012, 07:55:39 AM »
« Edited: December 15, 2012, 07:57:12 AM by Nagas »

It was too soon after Columbine. It was too soon after Virginia Tech. It was too soon after Tucson. It was too soon after Aurora. It was too soon after the Sikh Temple. It was too soon after the Empire State. It was too soon after Portland.

It's "too soon" after Connecticut. Roll Eyes
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