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US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

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Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

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Cat's out of the bag on this one. You will never get all the guns back, not without running a very real risk of instigating civil war. Ms. Jackson Lee thinks the real cause of the problem is "guns, guns, guns" - I say it's criminals, criminals, criminals. Why's Texas have so many criminals willing to use firearms for evil?

The good news is that guns are made of metal and metal rusts. So outlaw the military weapons and replacement parts and wait.

Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

#12
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Cat's out of the bag on this one. You will never get all the guns back, not without running a very real risk of instigating civil war. Ms. Jackson Lee thinks the real cause of the problem is "guns, guns, guns" - I say it's criminals, criminals, criminals. Why's Texas have so many criminals willing to use firearms for evil?

If you want to use firearms for any purpose, you probably go to the place where firearms flow like milk and honey.

Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

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I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.

They don't need to be "outside" influences. We're totally capable of radicalizing ourselves domestically.

Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

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I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Research_Agency

Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

#17
post #3

Cat's out of the bag on this one. You will never get all the guns back, not without running a very real risk of instigating civil war. Ms. Jackson Lee thinks the real cause of the problem is "guns, guns, guns" - I say it's criminals, criminals, criminals. Why's Texas have so many criminals willing to use firearms for evil?

The good news is that guns are made of metal and metal rusts. So outlaw the military weapons and replacement parts and wait.

Clearly, the technology for making things out of ...ferrous metals...is beyond the ken of ...Americans.

Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

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I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.

They don't need to be "outside" influences. We're totally capable of radicalizing ourselves domestically.

We've become the terrorists we feared in the 2000s.

Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

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I can't put my finger on it precisely, but it feels like there are outside influences radicalizing people via social media with an ultimate goal of destabilizing the United States.

> outside influences radicalizing people

Outside of where?

Re: US on track to set record in 2023 for mass killings after series of shootings

#20
post #3

Cat's out of the bag on this one. You will never get all the guns back, not without running a very real risk of instigating civil war. Ms. Jackson Lee thinks the real cause of the problem is "guns, guns, guns" - I say it's criminals, criminals, criminals. Why's Texas have so many criminals willing to use firearms for evil?

The good news is that guns are made of metal and metal rusts. So outlaw the military weapons and replacement parts and wait.

World war one rifles coated in cosmoline are just as ready to shoot today as when they were stored in a barrel 100 years ago.

Take a look at the availability of the mosin nagant rifle.

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