Daily Topics - Tuesday December 18th, 2012
By shawnt56
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Hour One: Gun nut says it's a right to take on government with guns...
Hour Two: The NRA has more blood on its hands than Al-Qaeda...when will America wake up?
Hour Three: Why are we doing nothing to ban violent video games? Rene Sandler, Sandler Law LLC
Comments
#2
According to the Mayan calendar, Friday is only the end of the Mayan calendar. It's according to some dishonest profiteers that the world will end on December 21st.
#3
Are we not attacking a symptom of a greater problem by instituting more gun control laws rather than enforcing those that already exist? Isn’t the real underlying problem income and wealth inequality and shouldn’t we put all our energy into solving that problem rather and chasing the issue du jour?
#4
It's an issue de touts les jours, David. People are killed with guns all the time. But when was the last time you heard of a mass stabbing? It's the guns. And the gun laws that exist have things like the gun show loophole. The law does, in fact, need to change.
#5
This is a link to most of the school killing in China where guns are illegal. These are just for one year 2020 -2011 and are NOT all of them.
THEY ARE ALL DONE WITH AN EDGED WEAPON! Killers will Kill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_attacks_in_China_%282010%E2%80%932012%29
#6
Guns are evil. Killing started with there invention (except maybe the 9 crusades) and will end with there elimination. More laws should be made for honest law abiding citizens (only them, because there really only the one's that pay any attention to them. Criminals and the mentally ill don't abide by laws) The government should be the only people aloud to have firearms because they have ONLY our best interests in mind, anyway regular people are far to stupid and irresponsible to be trusted with dangerous things. (Like: lawn mowers, flammable liquids, flammable gasses, automobiles, power tools, Poisons, sharp things, etc, etc, etc.) The only way we can insure our safety is make sure that there is a corresponding law for each of our dangers. But the government will consider permits for dangers in life. Permits WILL make it safe for our moronic citizens. And for our safety the government is also considering a law against stupid people. They are working on the wording now. by pete f.
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