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It's like every day is a Presidents Day sale!

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It's considerably less lazy than the specific piece of rhetoric it was there to rebut, the NRA's \"because a small handful of people each year are murdered with hammers, you must not attempt to regulate the guns which are used in several thousand murders annually\" line of nonsense. Plus, nothing Obama proposed today will cost a trillion dollars.

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A subsample of 44% from a sample of 1,000 is a large enough sample that a 55-42 result is statistically significant (95% confidence interval for a sample population of 440 is +/- 4.6%)<br /><br />I would hope the CDC's research will be into what would actually work to reduce gun deaths, not what would be popular among gun owners. The CDC isn't a political research body.

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And by "overtime," you mean "hookers."

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That you, Dr. Von Neumann?

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Sure print your own magazine, just make sure you never take it out in public until your mass shooting spree, because illegal arms manufacture is kind of a big deal.

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<a href="http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/page\/2010-2019\/WashingtonPost\/2013\/01\/14\/National-Politics\/Polling\/question_9677.xml\?uuid=1WnXIF6VEeKKy6tct36VyA" target="_blank">Here</a>. You may need to pick "Gun household" from the "Show results by" dropdown.

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Logic: Gun nuts scream gun control leads to tyranny and genocide. After New York signed landmark gun legislation on Tuesday, they claim, "Nothing will change. It will have no impact."

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Is Glenn Beck weeping yet?

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Also too, a regulation on arms ownership is a categorically different thing from a murder. It is fundamentally pointless to modify one's language because people exist who cannot understand that categorical difference, as those people are impossible to reason with.

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How will I ever get a flame thrower now?

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The '94 AWB allowed resale of legacy guns, I don't know whether magazines were included. Banning resales creates a 5th Amendment taking issue. Mandatory buyback, on the other hand...

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I'm gonna prepare for the end of freedom by hoarding all the pizza I can get my cold dead greasy hands on. FIFY

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It is.

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I like violets cause they smell nice.

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