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Thomas Dombroski's avatar

Goofball: guns don’t kill people

People kill people

Me: then I guess we don’t need guns

Goofball: if we don’t have guns only criminals will have guns

Me: so what? You said guns don’t kill people , so it doesn’t matter if criminals have them

Goofball: that’s stupid

Me:

Goofball:

Me:

Goofball: you can kill people without guns

Me: then I guess we don’t need guns

Goofball: I can’t talk to you

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

Might I quote this, with attribution?

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

Thanks, Thomas-- is your Like a "yes"?

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Cynthia Fridlich's avatar

Lol!!!

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Melina Rudman's avatar

It is the guns.

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Cynthia Fridlich's avatar

It’s the guns! My next t-shirt?

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Yes!

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Lou's avatar

"How many deaths will it take 'til he knows, that too many people have died."

I don't think Greg Abbott knows...or if he truly cares.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Someone posted a list on Twitter of the condolences Abbott shared after each mass shooting in his state. Even he had to see how repetitive he is.

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Charlene L. Edge's avatar

One person is too many.

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Rich Colbert's avatar

After the Uvalde massacre TexASS Governor Ironsides did nothing except call for MORE guns and LESS gun legislation! All our angst will not change the minds of the ammosexuals who continue to support him and those like him!

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Susan Campbell's avatar

He’s made it easier and easier to get a gun in Texas. This is the result.

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Cynthia Fridlich's avatar

I think maybe they have romantic notions of the return of cowboy culture. The ones with the most guns and the most land and the biggest hats allow us pions our shoot ‘em up guns that kill a bunch of other pions far removed from their protective realms. At least that’s how ***i*** see it. Take their protection away, and they are pions like the rest of us grunts. “They” is a too broad a term, but I still say “they,” meaning those cowards behind these guns, the many, many guns, running sceardy-cat like at the mere mention of (((regulating))) “their” guns. Ugh, fuckin’-A , already.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

Already is right...

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Rich Colbert's avatar

the bigger the gun the smaller the pee shooter

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Cynthia Fridlich's avatar

Indeed

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Joan Sheehan's avatar

I don’t even know what will change their minds. I thought Newtown would but it sure didn’t. I wonder if seeing the bodies close up will go it but again, probably not. Cold, heartless bastards. Weapons of war don’t belong in private citizens hands. Period.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

That's what I keep saying...if dead first-graders don't do it...

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Ann Crimmins's avatar

It astonishes me that anybody could see this issue any other way.

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Mary Ann Dimand's avatar

I think that they're not looking looking through lenses that are focused on problem solving, but focusing on I Must Win.

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Bill Yousman's avatar

It's the guns.

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Deacon Art's avatar

It’s beginning to happen…

Emmett’s 1955 murder didn’t transform

things quickly nor completely, but the dance began, the drums started to beat out the rhythm of Justice. And Lord, I lift my hands to that moral universe that bends so slightly towards Justice.

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Cynthia Fridlich's avatar

Poetic Justin in that part of Texas (at least) doesn’t actually apply. At all.

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Deacon Art's avatar

Some day , some way they will have to answer for this.

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Susan Campbell's avatar

I don't mean to sound unkind but I hope it's before Judgment Day so I get to watch.

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Theresa Taylor's avatar

I heard a soundbite from a man who's son worked in the mall, and I believe, in the area of it where the shooting happened. He said he was a gun owner, and that he loved his guns. BUT, these automatic weapons have got to go. FINALLY, a TX gun owner with a thread of common sense.

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