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The Fear About Things That Won't Kill Us Is Killing Us (What's worse than Ebola & ISIS? Guns)
The Daily Beast ^
| October 25, 2014
| Cliff Schecter
Posted on 10/25/2014 9:59:35 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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Where's his "anti-automobile" screed? Or his "anti-swimming-pool" rant? Or his "anti-acetaminophen" column? Or his "anti-farming" or "anti-mining" or "anti-logging" diatribe? Those things kill all kinds of people.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Actually, the problem is that the deaths from
governmental-imposed-Ebola and
governmental-imposed-EV-68 are RISING.
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posted on
10/25/2014 10:02:16 AM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
How many home invasions has ebola or ISIS stopped this week? How many points of meat has ebola brought home to families this week?
Yes, guns kills people but they don’t do it by themselves and that isn’t all they do. Ebola, ISIS, and Barack Obama do not have any beneficial uses whatsoever and they should be removed from the planet long before we pass a single new gun law.
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posted on
10/25/2014 10:03:25 AM PDT
by
Bryanw92
(Sic semper tyrannis)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
We had our 87thyes 87thschool shooting since Newtown. I'm throwin' the BS flag!
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posted on
10/25/2014 10:07:52 AM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Anybody got the stats on how many Americans are killed by illegal aliens each year? Where’s the outrage?
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posted on
10/25/2014 10:09:24 AM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(Ebola and Enterovirus-D68. Proud members of Viruses Without Borders.)
To: MileHi
But he didn’t say “in the United States” now did he?
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posted on
10/25/2014 10:12:12 AM PDT
by
2ndDivisionVet
(The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
87 school shootings since Sandy Hook?
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posted on
10/25/2014 10:15:34 AM PDT
by
umgud
(I couldn't understand why the ball kept getting bigger......... then it hit me.)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
30,000 are not killed by guns, FBI says about 8,500 98% are illegal guns that are used
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posted on
10/25/2014 10:20:36 AM PDT
by
svcw
(Not 'hope and change' but 'dopes in chains')
To: 2ndDivisionVet
good points. Death by gun is so far down the list.
To: Republican1795.
FLU and Automobile kill more than Guns.
Where are the most deaths with Guns?
Chicago, DC and LA
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Here in Wisconsin there's millions of guns...more than the population of about five million. Even many Democrats love guns and hunting. Outside of Milwaukee deaths from guns are mighty rare. Heart attacks and falling from deer stands might kill more deer hunters during hunting season, but I could be wrong. In fact, the deer might kill more citizens (auto accidents) than hunters shoot other hunters.
So if the proliferation of guns creates innumerable gun deaths, where are all the homicides outside of Milwaukee? Just about non-existent.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
Murders using guns (suicides are a separate issue entirely) is a Democrat problem, not a gun problem.
Let me repeat, murders in which a gun is used, are a Democrat problem—not a gun problem. Until some steps are taken to straighten out Democrats, violence involving guns will continue to be a problem.
Violence involving the use of a gun is a Democrat problem, not a gun problem.
And lastly, violence involving the use of a gun is a Democrat problem, not a gun problem.
Can any Democrat prove me wrong, with data and objective evidence? No, I didn’t think so.
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posted on
10/25/2014 11:26:27 AM PDT
by
iacovatx
(Conservatism is the political center--it is not "right" of center)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
If guns automatically jumped form one person to another, then shot everyone around them including the person with the gun, followed by the government denying that it ever happened, then the gun analogy might be be valid.
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posted on
10/25/2014 11:45:33 AM PDT
by
zipper
(In Their Heart Of Hearts, Every Democrat Is A Communist.)
To: MileHi; umgud
“...87thyes 87thschool shooting...”
Moron’s probably counting the rural schools’ rifle teams who have had matches, since. </heh>
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posted on
10/25/2014 11:59:38 AM PDT
by
Carriage Hill
( Some days you're the windshield, and some days you're the bug.)
To: driftless2
Similar story over in Pennsylvania, leave the cities, and murder is almost unheard of, even robberies very seldom actually result in death in rural areas, in fact, most robberies can rob a store clean out of money and know that they aren’t going to encounter the cops. There has been the cop sniper shooting suspected by the man who stole his Father’s gun (Frein) but actual murders in PA in the rural areas are rare. You do have to look out for deer on the road though.
To: 2ndDivisionVet
I have a heckuva lot of guns and not one has ever committed a crime.
So much for their “theory”.
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posted on
10/25/2014 2:41:00 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: 2ndDivisionVet; All
We had our 87thyes 87thschool shooting since Newtown.
Bravo Sierra.
The only way he even gets close to 87 is by adding in all of the pop tart guns and finger guns.
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posted on
10/25/2014 2:43:44 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: 2ndDivisionVet
House fires kill a LOT of people each year.
BAN STOVES!
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posted on
10/25/2014 2:48:05 PM PDT
by
Red in Blue PA
(When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
To: MileHi
Do they even bother sourcing that?
To: Morpheus2009
No. Some outfit (moms looking for a little action?) put a number like this out. Their criteria was something like, did this person ever attend school, then it is “school related”. Just BS.
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posted on
10/25/2014 4:21:53 PM PDT
by
MileHi
(Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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