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School shooting - at least 5 dead

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by bigtexxx, Jan 22, 2016.

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    ...To think it's come to this.

    ..my Kingdom for a pair of Air Jordans.

    ....or some Air Force One's...
     
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    I wonder what where countries would fall on the list if you removed five of their largest cities from consideration? Hmm....

    What I read from this is areas outside those cities don't have STRICT GUN LAWS and so what is really needed is nationwide STRICT GUN LAWS.
     
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    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    This is not true. USA is no where near third in per capita murder rate.
     
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    REEKO_HTOWN I'm Rich Biiiiaaatch!

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    CRAP! I think I left my thought and prayers in my house this morning. Gonna have to wait till after work to send them.
     
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    Take Trump Supporters out of the country, our national average IQ increases from under 100; to over 100. Facts!
     
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    Gun control laws for cities don't work if state is weak or if a nearby state has lax laws. Same thing happened when the drinking age was 18. People would just cross into Louisiana and buy there and bring back a bunch at a time. The laws have to be equally strict in all states for it to be effective.
     
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    It is completely and totally fabricated. Or, rather, a total lie.

    I don't know what's worse, that people like that have no ideas or that they have no morals.
     
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    bobrek Politics belong in the D & D

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    It is astounding to me how often folks post easily provable falsehoods on a BBS or Facebook. I guess it shouldn't be that astounding since the President oftentimes does the same and his base eats it up. And, generally, if they choose to respond after their post is disproved they move the goalposts.
     
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    Hah, if you didn't buy one during BHO's Reign of Terror, you probably won't buy one anytime soon.

    Owning a gun isn't crazy or terrible, but buying one because it's hyped up in the media is like a wife or gf's impulse buy on qvc.

    Buy an AR-15 now while supplies last! Free bump stock for orders in the next 39 minutes!
     
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    @tallanvor posted it because he believed it was true. He believed a tweet without doing any actual checking simply because he wished that it was so. Unfortunately for him, it was a bogus claim.
     
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    That damn Hussein!!

    Brown people taking muh Jubs and I want Muh guns.

    'Murica!!
     
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    Unwitting useful idiot?
     
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    Move the goalposts.

    Double down.

    Alternate facts. Easily provable falsehoods = fake news. Can't trust liberal internet and facts.
     
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    From your link... "During that year FBI statistics counted 500 murders in Chicago, 386 in Detroit, 193 in New Orleans, and 88 in Washington, D.C. The combined total of homicides in those four cities was 1,167 for that year, or approximately 7.8 percent of all murders that occurred in the United States in 2012. Even if the sum total of all intentional homicides for 2012 occurring in those four cities were ignored, it wouldn’t change the rankings previously described very much: The United States would drop a few notches down from its already fairly low position on the global homicide rate chart (but still not close to “fourth from the bottom”)."

    What is it about those 4 cities? @tallanvor, why would you post something so easy to disprove and then disappear?
     

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