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John Byrne
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The hardest thing for anyone to say is "I was wrong." Looking like it's IMPOSSIBLE for anyone in the NRA to say it.NRA, NRA, How many kids did you kill today?
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Michael Penn
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Read this today:
>>The more guns there are in a country, the more gun murders and massacres of children there will be. [...] what is usually presented as a case of self-defense with guns is, in the real world, almost invariably a story about an escalating quarrel. “How often might you appropriately use a gun in self-defense?” [Harvard social scientist] Hemenway asks rhetorically. “Answer: zero to once in a lifetime. How about inappropriately—because you were tired, afraid, or drunk in a confrontational situation? There are lots and lots of chances.”<<
It appeared, though, in "The New Yorker," so ya know...
Don't you see that the rest of the country looks upon New York like we're left-wing, communist, Jewish, homosexual pornographers? I think of us that way sometimes and I live here. -- ANNIE HALL
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Charles Valderrama
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"For those confused as to how we would afford armed guards when we can't even afford teachers, they would be paid on COMMISSION." - Seth Meyers
-C!
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Bill Collins
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So the NRA`s solution involves the use of guns,why am i not surprised? Oh,and they blame the media and computer games too...but not the proliferation of guns!
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Brian Miller
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I guess the NRA would believe that an alcoholic needs booze to stop drinking, too.
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William Costello
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Some of the high schools in CT already have police officers (armed) in the high school, especially after the Columbine shooting. I think Trumbull High has at least one inside the school and one outside the school all school day.Adam Shapiro at FBN calculated that it would cost about $ 4.15 BILLION dollars per year to have every school (public and private) with at least one armed police officer for the school day. Now if the NRA were willing to pay for the cost . . . . oh . . they didn't offer that, did they? William J. (Willie) Costello, CPA, MS (Taxation) (Heading off the fiscal cliff as we 'speak' . . . . . . )
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Rick Shepherd
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Reading some of the quotes from NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre - in particular, "the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun"...
...yeah - in a John Wayne movie. And that's assuming that the 'bad guy' shoots second, or misses, or the 'good guy' doesn't miss said 'bad guy'.
Or, more likely, some kid doesn't wind up getting a hold of the good guy's gun (let's assume that the good guy is one of these trained, armed security details the NRA propose having in US schools) and either accidentally/deliberately shooting his/her classmates.
I honestly don't know what kind of macho fantasy-world these morons live in, but it never fails to stagger me the lack of logic and common sense on display.
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William Costello
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From the CBLDF in today's e-mail: "In the wake of the tragic shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, Senator Jay Rockefeller (D – WV), has introduced a bill mandating that the National Academy of Sciences investigate the effect of violent video games on children. Rockefeller’s bill comes in the wake of reports that shooter Adam Lanza was an avid player of video games. Rockefeller’s bill is the most recent in a decades long line of attempts to legislate media violence that started with the 1954 Senate subcommittee hearings against comics."
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Terry Thielen
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and while the NRA called for more guns another mass shooting takes place... http://gawker.com/5970497/while-the-nra-was-on-tv-talking-ab out-the-need-for-more-guns-some-guy-was-walking-up-and-down- a-road-in-pennsylvania-shooting-people
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Robert White
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It boggles the mind that anyone ever used a gun to blow someone away before the advent of video games. These old fossils can't disappear quick enough for me.
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Brad Krawchuk
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The video game theory does have a lot of validity though. I know after I play Super Mario Bros. I want to jump on people to attack them, and I've been keeping my spare change in large floating bricks since 1985. Also, I keep eating random flowers to see which ones will give me fireball throwing abilities, and I dress up like a raccoon whenever I want to fly somewhere.
I think the NRA might be on to something.
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Ryan Maxwell
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And...my daughter's high school is in lockdown right now because some idiot kid brought a gun on campus. If only there were a few adults with pistols and rifles to blow the angsty minor away, she could go home for the day. Assuming no innocents were injured by wayward bullets, of course.
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