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BudsKind802 t1_jeebpp6 wrote

Reply to comment by RamaSchneider in Police investigate suspicious death in Brattleboro after report of gunfire by RamaSchneider

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RamaSchneider OP t1_jeefg27 wrote

No, it's about the guns. Guns everywhere. Guns to be used. Gun rights.

It all melds into one big hazy cloud to me because the only response that ever comes out is spouting nonsense constitutional hypothesis-wannabes and more guns with more more uses for that more guns in our social and political spheres.

There's just too many guns and too much firepower running around on our streets. It's a message worth repeating.

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Corey307 t1_jeeudgm wrote

So what’s your solution? Round up over 400 million guns from the 99.9%+ of Americans that are law abiding gun owners? Because he wouldn’t even get a small fraction in there and still be a similar number of guns on the streets in the hands of criminals.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jeewsb6 wrote

While they defund public police, and then pay them for private security in their condo complex's.

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RamaSchneider OP t1_jeewiuq wrote

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I've never suggested anything like you're bringing up. Along the way I've suggested many things including "draining the swamp" type actions where, for example only, firearms confiscated due to illegal use or ownership be as immediately as possible destroyed. And then layer on restrictions to the types of firearms legally available for general use (yeah - gun control).

You, me, the person siting next to either of us ... we're all bozos on this same bus, and most of us have been cogs on the wheel and along for the ride. We didn't create the situation, and we're not financially profiting from it. But we do have the power to do something, and I don't believe what we're doing now is working at all.

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RamaSchneider OP t1_jeex0a8 wrote

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I believe the biggest problem regarding firearms in the United States today is much more about contemporary "gun culture" then it is about the number or even firepower of guns available.

Once this gun culture was about military, hunting and self-defense. Nowadays, unfortunately, this gun culture has become about political labeling and more use in our social and political affairs.

This is the one that really makes some people in public office wilt.

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Rogers_Ebert t1_jeewmf7 wrote

All these guns just getting up and shooting people. Won't they think of the children? How many times does this need to happen before the people disarm themselves?

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lantonas t1_jefv340 wrote

That the people have a right to bear arms for the defence of themselves and the State

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