• BigMacHole@lemm.ee
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    17 days ago

    The ONLY way to Prevent this is if EVERY child goes Swimming with a Gun so they can shoot ANYONE ELSE who has a gun because it’s UNCONSTITUTIONAL to ensure ONLY good people have guns!

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    17 days ago

    How many more lives will be sacrificed at the altar of the second amendment before something meaningful happens?

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    16 days ago

    And not a “good guy” gun owner in sight.

    It’s almost like deregulating firearms isn’t stopping mass shootings.

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      16 days ago

      Okay hear me out, the reason for such tragedies is logical. Kids have no guns to fight back! It’s just like if you had a guy pointing a gun at you. If you had a gun of your own, you could distract them with a handful of dust and then shoot back. Same for the kids. If they had guns they could defend themselves.

      Next we’ll discuss the vulnerability of animals such as whales and hummingbirds as it relates to their lack of usable fingers for trigger pulling.

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        16 days ago

        The school boards got rid of PE classes so that schoolchildren could focus on trigger finger crunches specifically.

        Essential skills, and all that.

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          16 days ago

          That person seems to be underestimating how difficult it is to keep a pocketful of dust safe at the splash pad!

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            14 days ago

            Sand is 7 bucks for 50 pounds. Dust will poof its way out of your pocket over time. Sand will stay put forever. Don’t skimp on your safety, buy the pocket sand.

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      15 days ago

      The data shows that a vigilante will be a hero only in one of 7,000 cases of gun violence. I don’t see data showing how often the instigator of gun violence has a carry permit.

      But this tells us two things:

      • the rate of Good Guy Gun bros is super small

      • there are so many cases of mass shootings in America that 1:7000 can be calculated

      Is America holding back on accessible healthcare because it would then need to address the prevalence of guns in America, or have they heard of mandatory multi-million-dollar 3rd party life insurance for gun owners? There’s even a company named liberty that may insure them.

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        15 days ago

        Also missing from those stats are the stats on how often someone tries to be a hero and either makes a dangerous situation worse or misreads the situation entirely and makes a peaceful situation violent.

        The well regulated militia part was pretty important and the judge(s) that ruled it wasn’t should have been impeached for overextending his power.

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    17 days ago

    Oh, well if there were kids I guess the republicans are gonna protect them.