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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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14. These graphs indicate the American public has considered the arguments...

Reply to benEzra (Original post)

Thu Oct 27, 2016, 02:20 PM

Oct 2016

...and found the controllers' explanations wanting. Despite he misuse of terminology, the obfuscation of technical points and the appeals to emotion, it has seen through the fog. These data strongly suggest that the influence of MSM, esp. when it mumbles the same arguments over and over, is in decline. Perhaps more fundamentally, the armed civilian population is truly re-arming, as it is wont to do over the decades. Semi-auto weapons, including carbines, are replacing the old .38s and the shotgun standing in the corner of the kitchen.

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Support for banning "assault weapons" (aka modern-looking civilian rifles) is now at record lows. [View all] benEzra Oct 2016 OP

I am part of the 61 percent Duckhunter935 Oct 2016 #1

Dog bless you! pablo_marmol Oct 2016 #6

Sandy Hook PdxSean Oct 2016 #2

Rifles make up about 2% of all murders Travis_0004 Oct 2016 #4

This message was self-deleted by its author Straw Man Oct 2016 #17

"Assault weapons" pablo_marmol Oct 2016 #5

Such a true statement Duckhunter935 Oct 2016 #7

"assault weapons" to paraphrase a famous attorney discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 #15

If you expect Americans to be moved... beevul Oct 2016 #12

If the Sandy Hook murderer had used a straight-wooden-stocked rifle instead, benEzra Oct 2016 #16

Gallup is a right leaning crapshow. elehhhhna Oct 2016 #3

"Those grapes were probably sour anyway, said the fox" DonP Oct 2016 #9

An amusing way to phrase that discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 #10

"said the fox" Nuclear Unicorn Oct 2016 #13

When the 1%ers want to tell you what to do.... ileus Oct 2016 #8

These graphs indicate the American public has considered the arguments... Eleanors38 Oct 2016 #14

Support for AWB way way down. beevul Oct 2016 #18

When all you have is an alert link and a rec link... discntnt_irny_srcsm Oct 2016 #19

Mere "tuning out" isn't good enough for some of them anymore DonP Oct 2016 #20

Yes indeed one alerts on me a lot Duckhunter935 Oct 2016 #21

Yet our future Commander in Chief wants to ban them. pablo_marmol Oct 2016 #22

Wrote an OP with those points as the topic discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2016 #23

No.....THANK YOU! pablo_marmol Nov 2016 #24

You're welcome discntnt_irny_srcsm Nov 2016 #25

When even Vox publishes a positive article about the AR 15....... pablo_marmol Nov 2016 #26

Another article from the same author (^^) that explains why the AR is popular: pablo_marmol Nov 2016 #27

Another AWB is surely a key part of success for future Democrats discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2016 #27

Yes.... Puha Ekapi_2 Dec 2016 #28

Advocating another AWB is marginally smarter than suggesting... discntnt_irny_srcsm Dec 2016 #29