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ok, here is my last word on the subject moondog Send a noteboard - 23/12/2012 02:06:49 AM

Mainly in that you are treating that proposal and the NRAs as mutually exclusive, and that engaging them on the basis of their specious claim gun control=prohibition implicitly legitimizes it. I feel like most people opposing their quite reasonable proposal are doing so solely to have another fight with the NRA (which clearly wants that just as badly) and demonize it as dangerously radical. I mean, c'mon, man putting a cop or two at a school "militarizes" it? Are you going to sit there and tell me that is a MODERATE view? If all law enforcement is so dangerously untrustworthy, who do you suggest enforce gun control laws?


i never said law enforcement is untrustworthy, i am saying that having them stationed in front of schools makes them primary targets in a shooting, and has not been shown to prevent massacres. in the case of the NYPD taking out a gunman in front of the empire state building, 9 people were injured by police gunfire. highly trained shooters cannot rely on a magic bullet only hitting their intended target and nothing else. when those other bystanders are 5 year old children, the risk is far beyond the reward. having people like chris christie and other prominent republicans in office denigrate the NRA's proposal suggests it is not as moderate nor sane as you would try to make it out to be.

at its heart, the NRA is nowadays nothing more than a shill for gun manufacturers. at one point they were about proper gun training and responsibility but they've gone beyond that and only care about making more money for the gun makers and nothing else. in this regard they are the right wing version of PETA and have the same level of lunacy with regards to public outreach and policy. PETA could also suggest something that might make sense, but like the NRA, at the end of the day they are still only concerned with their own self-promotion and no longer stand for the principles which they used to promote quite successfully.
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the NRA shows it is an asylum overrun by lunatics - 22/12/2012 04:40:26 PM 1208 Views
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I can think of two reasons off the top of my head - 22/12/2012 05:38:19 PM 760 Views
OK... - 22/12/2012 06:58:42 PM 724 Views
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If it's shown to work - 23/12/2012 12:25:38 AM 720 Views
columbine had two armed guards on the day of the shooting. they were both immediately fired upon... - 23/12/2012 12:49:30 AM 608 Views
I have never seen any mention of them among the injured or dead (or at all.) - 23/12/2012 01:09:38 AM 755 Views
A fuller account of Gardner - 23/12/2012 10:27:24 AM 818 Views
Nice link. - 23/12/2012 02:27:30 PM 608 Views
Re: Nice link. - 23/12/2012 03:15:24 PM 587 Views
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there are none where an armed guard placed there *before* the shooting had any effect - 23/12/2012 01:36:42 AM 659 Views
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ok, here is my last word on the subject - 23/12/2012 02:06:49 AM 644 Views
9 people injured vs. 20 people dead. - 23/12/2012 02:34:00 AM 574 Views
it is still "more guns makes us safer" which has yet to prevent a single massacre in this country - 23/12/2012 02:41:56 PM 695 Views
Peter Odighizuwa comes to mind, that's also horrible logic - 23/12/2012 08:27:46 PM 582 Views
[citation needed] - 25/12/2012 04:54:14 PM 581 Views
Fair enough - 25/12/2012 09:06:43 PM 938 Views
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Do bombs require certification? - 22/12/2012 09:21:25 PM 870 Views
i say this with all due respect -- eat a bag of dicks - 23/12/2012 01:04:08 AM 663 Views
That was pretty damn respectful under the circumstances. - 23/12/2012 01:10:04 AM 625 Views
The lack of intellect displayed here is to be expected - 23/12/2012 04:01:32 AM 636 Views
so according to you we should just make life illegal since everyone is going to die from something.. - 23/12/2012 07:25:05 AM 560 Views
Obviously you didn't put pay attention - 23/12/2012 01:40:17 PM 589 Views
no, you said "fuck it because people die anyway". there is a big difference - 23/12/2012 02:46:46 PM 579 Views
As usual, you are wrong on so many fronts... - 27/12/2012 10:39:04 PM 896 Views
Dicks and stones - 23/12/2012 03:54:25 AM 771 Views
FYI - I gave moondog a 30-day time-out via the ignore function. - 23/12/2012 05:48:13 AM 515 Views
FYI -- you didn't post to this board for 30+ days - 23/12/2012 07:21:44 AM 519 Views
I'm not sure it's about guns. - 23/12/2012 06:08:50 PM 595 Views

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