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What to do about assault weapons (barf alert)
Chicago Tribune ^ | 16 june 2016

Posted on 06/16/2016 4:18:09 AM PDT by rellimpank

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To: rellimpank

The first three words are wrong. The entire jeremiad rests on a false premise.

Even if it was revised to read “All guns CAN kill,” it would still be wrong.

Guns don’t kill. PEOPLE sometimes kill, and sometimes they use guns to do it.

So the accurate premise would be “Any gun can be used to kill.” That places the argument in the passive voice and removes the focus from the instrument to the user, the sentient power behind the tool, and the entity who is actually responsible for the killing.

If guns kill, then bring the guns up on charges.


41 posted on 06/16/2016 5:48:12 AM PDT by IronJack
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With the law enforcement investigation in its early days, there is a lot we don't know about Mateen's motives and rampage.

WHAT!!?!

I guess calling 911 and Pledging Allegiance to ISIS is a clear as mud to the Left.

These people are seriously Ill, If this isn't a old timey saying it should be "If people believe their chains are liberating than how can we convince them different?"

Liberals will get along famously under Islam. SHDM.

42 posted on 06/16/2016 5:54:12 AM PDT by KC_Lion (Never Killary!)
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No guns kill. People kill. Using a wide variety of implements and means. Guns are in the distinct minority — people kill with cars a lot more than guns. This article is a joke from top to bottom. What a shame for Chicago that one of its major media are so controlled as to try to distract its citizens away from that city’s real issues


43 posted on 06/16/2016 5:56:07 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: rellimpank

( and I don’t mean the cars, either )


44 posted on 06/16/2016 5:56:56 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero)
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To: IamConservative

So many unusual aspects to Orlando.
Many smell rats.


45 posted on 06/16/2016 7:31:30 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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I just made this meme, I guess you gotta be a car person to fully get it. photo ar15assualtvehicle_zpsdzgqabzw.jpg
46 posted on 06/16/2016 7:38:43 AM PDT by Hotmetal
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US citizens should not have access to “ military style” weapons? Pretty much the exact opposite of the Second Amendment.

Thank you. The NFA restrictions on machineguns are unconstitutional and repugnant to a free people.

47 posted on 06/16/2016 7:41:08 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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“All guns kill.”

What percentage of guns in America have been used by a human to kill a human? Answer please, Tribune.


48 posted on 06/16/2016 7:58:45 AM PDT by polymuser (Enough is enough!)
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“All guns kill.”

umm....mine don’t


49 posted on 06/16/2016 8:53:13 AM PDT by ExGeeEye (Mohammed was a war mongering pedophile rapist who started a Satanic death cult. Arrest me, Lynch.)
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why wasn’t there any resistance of any kind?

Reading tonight that the shooter also texted his wife. Very unusual in an active shooter scenario.

50 posted on 06/16/2016 6:26:04 PM PDT by IamConservative (There is no greater threat to our freedoms than Bipartisanship.)
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It was not a heavily-armed madman, Tribune.

It was a radicalized Muslim.

51 posted on 06/16/2016 6:27:52 PM PDT by Lazamataz (Chuck Norris finally met his match in Donald Trump.)
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