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They Voted With Their Bleeding Hearts...


More Hollywood anti-gun propaganda. It's not right to make it illegal to own something, simply because a small percentage of people use that thing for bad.

Tolerance Is Intolerant Of Politically Incorrect Thought...🇺🇸

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Yeah, it was great wasn't it?🐭

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Crap movie by those who don't mind being protected by fire power, just not for the "common folk" to have.

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Where did you get that sentiment?
The verdict would in no way make it illegal for people to own a gun.
It would however cause enough grief to the manufacturers of weapons to make them take responsiability for what they sell.
If that make buying a gun more difficult, that actually seems like a good thing, don't you?

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What? I don't like the message either but that's not what's being proposed. It's more anti-corporate malfeasance than anti-guns.

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Nah, it's clearly anti-gun and also anti-gun industry.

They want gun manufacturers to be blamed for the misuse of their product. But do you blame the hammer manufacturer when someone uses their product to bash someone's skull in? I hope you wouldn't.

Much like the recent film Miss Sloane, this is a movie with a clear agenda and it's an agenda that has no respect for the 2nd amendment.

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I have no respect for the 2nd Amendment, especially since it's been perverted to include almost any sort of fire power any freak wants to acquire. The whole premise of the 2nd A is absurd in the 21st century. This country spends more money trying to extinguish life than it does allowing so-called freedom. We can't defend ourselves from tyranny. We are paying for it.

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If you don't want the ability to effectively defend yourself and your family, that's fine. But don't try to deprive others of doing the same.

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Defend your family from what? Accidents with a gun?

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Do you think that home invasions never happen?

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Sure they do. But how often?

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Not often, thankfully, but often enough that it's better to be safe than sorry.

Most people will escape this life without someone trying to rape, rob, kidnap or murder them, but those who aren't so lucky deserve to have means to defend themselves.

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Having a gun in the house does bring a risk. Use in anger, use by children, theft by teenager, accidental discharge and so on. The question is if that risk outweighs the possibility that one is able to obtain it in time for self defense when self defense situations arise. I like guns but do wonder if its not just an irrationality to have them as private citizens.

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I think that if you store guns safely that eliminates a lot of those concerns.

But for many gun owners, there's another principle at play here: You don't want all the power laying in the hands of the government. There's a reason why one of the first things most dictators do when they come into power is disarm the citizenry.

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I think there are some people who die from their own guns; in the home.

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