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They will NEVER stop saying "We need more guns to be safer."

They will never stop saying "It's a false flag op by lefties with crisis actors," or "It's so suspiciously times it had to be a massacre by FBI agents as an excuse to grab our guns."

Just posted on Gateway Pundit ...

"Barack Obama and his terrorist organization strike again!""Wow it's like the US is being turned into Kenya. That's what happens during a Kenyan's 3rd term."

I just checked the figures. From 2009 through 2018, the U.S. had 288 school shootings. Kenya had one. (And Barack Obama isn't Kenyan or a Muslim, not that these whackos will ever believe that or even think of checking out an actual fact.) Afghanistan - that's right, Afghanistan - had three.

Gateway Pundit is malevolent evil multiplied by stupid.

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Every conservative accusation is a confession.

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I was just wondering what it is about US politics that makes them combine bills. Personally, I would outlaw combining of bills. It prevents a lot of backroom politics as well.

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Make sure your bill's first sentence includes the word "regulate", that way you can accuse them of not even reading the first line of the bill. And then keep badgering about their lack of knowledge by asking for very specific wording of very specific details. "For my answer to your question just look at the fitfth chapter, third paragraph, second sentence, starting at 'regulated'. Any more questions that just prove you didn't bother to read the thing you now pretend to have an opinion about?"

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The far right only knows how to do two things: Deny that they do what they do, and accuse others of what they themselves do.

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The Dems need to bring up a new gun control bill every week, and FORCE Republicans to go on record opposing bill after bill, and then use THAT track record in the runups to elections to get a stronger anti-gun vote in their corner.

Anti-gun voters need to be as committed and passionate about controlling guns as the pro-gun nuts are at PREVENTING all that from happening.

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By the time the Democrats get through "reaching across the aisle" and engaging in their beloved "bipartisanship," any new laws will be so watered down and so full of loopholes they'll make a block of Swiss cheese seem completely solid by comparison.

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Why not just make 21 the limit for all gun purchases? There have been mass shootings with bolt action rifles, y'know.

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That's my point. They pushed their party to do stuff.

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If we think the police should have gone into the classroom where Ramos was holed up with kids (and we do) we have to be prepared for the possibility that a stray police bullet might hit a child.

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Dumb joke is dumb.

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Not only criminal for their negligence, but participants in any crime in which their guns take part. Their weapons are now in the wild because they failed to secure them properly. No different than a getaway driver.

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They do indeed. And apparently the word doesn't show up on the inscription on the NRA headquarters building, either.

As Mother Jones reported back in 1994 (holy fucking shit), "Emblazoned across the front of the NRA headquarters in Washington, D.C., is half of this amendment–the second half."

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Bad faith sophistry alert.

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What would you have them do? They’re trying to get something passed.

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It’s been said here before: Democrats need to paint Republicans as the party of the gun lobby and mass shooters- fuck it- call them the party of mass shooters. It’s true. If that candidate from Georgia can call Biden an illegitimate pedo, which isn’t true (and ironic considering Trump barged into a dressing room full of teenage girls at a Miss Teen USA pageant)

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