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Trump's going to do away with that law. Expect to see exponentially more shootings on military bases. And not by crazy American Patriots who are muslin.

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I've been telling my "not white" friends to arm themselves if Trump became president. Turns out I didn't have to tell them, some of them already have, or are in the process of.

I wonder how badly the NRA would shit itself if liberal groups started having "FOID card Registration Booths" at public events and festivals?

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I'm so glad I was done with HS a long time ago, even if that makes me an old. I was a weird kid, so all I got was bullied. Today a weird kid is bullied, watched like a hawk and treated as a head case by adults. So they're fucked on both sides. They're miserable at school, probably at home, now, too, (if they weren't before)because of intervention by the school and they are round pegs being hammered into a square hole by everything and everyone around them, and when that one kid snaps.....everybody is shocked, I tell you, shocked!

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If you aren't going to read my comment thoroughly, then please don't bother to respond. I specifically mentioned that selfie as being a red flag.

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People follow the path of least resistance. The easier the way, the more the results. Because of free access, guns are by far the easiest way to kill the most people in the most efficient way.

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By the time who you find out who the people are who are "at fault" it is generally too late. Finding fault after the fact is not at all helpful.

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Seeing as how man has been around about 6 million years and we still have this, as you call it, "problem," I say we concentrate on the guns until this "problem" is solved.

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Real ones, yeah. There are a lot of bladed weapons that are completely illegal in the US, including switchblades.

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so that's why my fight guys tell me to never carry swords on the "L". good to know.

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It's not a law, it's military policy. He can't actually change it. Well, not until he successfully forces us to wear our underwear on the outside.

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What's this? An ad agency doing snuff porn? Figures. Like they would drive us to the peak of paranoia and then not push us off.

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Not just leaps of paralogia, but actual false facts and hopeless bullshit. I guess the guns make them feel more "powerful" and they don't like it when Mom comes and says there have to be some rules. Even when the rules make them safer.

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Just yesterday some gun nutter went to "self-investigate" a Washington area pizza parlor's involvement in a "fake news" story. Luckily, no one was hurt and the gunman was taken into custody.

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Combine this with "Support the Troops!!!1!" and you could be on to something. Universal Natal Conscription - we're all in the Army now, from birth.

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My kids talk about their safety drills in school.

Going to the movies is fun now too - nothing like a reminder to notify theater employees if you spot suspicious or threatening activity sandwiched in between a Coke commercial and the "turn off your cell phone" message.

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The National Sword Association has really let me down.

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