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But those were Browns killed by white people, not white people killed by Browns!

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Only if they have hoodies on. We're a CIVILIZED country, after all.

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According to a Harvard study, 45,000 people die every year because they don't have health insurance. Which is why Steve King is such a big fan of Obamacare.

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He's produced 3 examples, which is indeed 3000 times X, where X = 0.001.

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I can tots understand why the people of Omaha are all freaked out by the threat of immigrants. Golly, if we here in NYC had to deal with that level of inundation, our whole American identity would be just, well, overwhelmed.

Meanwhile, I'm just gonna park this here: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wik..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Se...">http://en.wikipedia.org/wik... This does not, of course, include those who were foreign-born US citizens and residents.

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to be fair, we did make it harder for terrorists to get a big gulp on a plane.

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Pummel him with cantaloupe.

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I wonder how many multiples of 3000 Americans have been saved by our brown brothers and sisters. Let's ask Gabby Giffords.

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<i>“The violent rape and murder of 93-year-old Louise Sollowin was a 100 percent preventable death,”</i>

So was the death of 20 children in Sandy Hook. Congress just needs to stop sucking the NRA's muzzle.

We endure the equivalent of a 9/11 attack every six weeks from guns. After 9/11, we spent trillions of dollars to prevent a reoccurrence. The only thing we didn't do was make it harder for terrorists to arm themselves at a gun show. Al Queda thanks you NRA!

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