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05-27-2022, 10:50 AM #81
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05-27-2022, 11:39 AM #82
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To me, it sounds like a combination of shit parents, mental issues and bullying. Sounds pretty typical.
Guns have always been here, difference is the family unit and social media.
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05-27-2022, 11:53 AM #83"I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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05-27-2022, 12:25 PM #84
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05-27-2022, 12:30 PM #85
Those cops sucked. Paul Blart would have done better.
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05-27-2022, 12:42 PM #86
Why solve a problem when you can just throw a cop at it? I know we have a lot of legal experts here, can anyone answer if mental illness is a valid legal reason to deny someone a firearm?
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05-27-2022, 01:29 PM #87
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Add another layer - the lawyers.
If someone is coocoo for coco puffs, yes, don't give them a gun. We don't need lawyers for that, even though they will start the spinning cycle of semantics just like the gun freaks.
A gun's sole and main purpose is to kill. Guns aren't cars or any other daily thing we use for other useful purposes that could also kill someone. Guns are manufactured to kill things.Last edited by drudy23; 05-27-2022 at 01:32 PM.
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05-27-2022, 01:39 PM #88
This clown wouldn't have been considered mentally ill even though we now know that he was. Also, we're in full "stop the stigma" mode right now, which on balance is mostly a good thing, but it's not really a good mode for taking away people's rights.
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05-27-2022, 01:39 PM #89
I think the minimum age to buy a drink is 21, and the same to purchase a handgun from a licensed dealer.
Yet you can buy an AR, or any other long gun, at 18.
We do ask 18 year olds to go off to war, so it seems like they should be able to drink I guess, or buy handguns.
But it would be interesting to try a few years with 21 as the purchase age for all guns to see if incidents like this go down.
Or, reinstate the assault weapons ban that we had a while back.
In 2004, a ten-year federal ban on assault weapons expired, and since then. mass shootings have tripled. Zusha Elinson, who is writing a history of the bestselling AR-15 military style weapon used in many mass shootings, notes that there were about 400,000 AR-15 style rifles in America before the assault weapons ban went into effect in 1994. Today, there are 20 million....he went up late, and I was already up there.
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05-27-2022, 01:46 PM #90
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