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flotsam

(3,268 posts) Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:29 PM Feb 2018

A modest suggestion

Want to solve our gun problem-institute a commission at the Capitol and have the names of all the senators and representatives printed on little balls and loaded into a bingo cage. Immediately after every mass shooting a ball should be drawn for every ten citizens killed or wounded and the politicians picked should be rapidly shot to death. We wouldn't even need debates or discussions-a year from now we would have totally effective gun control...

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A modest suggestion (Original Post) flotsam Feb 2018 OP

Kind of a cross between Hunger Games and the Purge Phoenix61 Feb 2018 #1

No need to be quite that draconian - The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2018 #2

It's sort of like the story "The Lottery" BigmanPigman Feb 2018 #3

The Only Thing I'd Change Is The Ball Should Be Drawn For Every Citizen Killed.... global1 Feb 2018 #4

How bout something along these lines? Gabi Hayes Feb 2018 #5

Phoenix61

(17,006 posts)

1. Kind of a cross between Hunger Games and the Purge

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:30 PM

Feb 2018

I like the way you think.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,735 posts)

2. No need to be quite that draconian -

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:35 PM

Feb 2018

Just make every politician who takes money from the NRA attend the autopsies and funerals, and pay for the funerals, of people killed in mass shootings, and then make them sit and listen to the parents/spouses/etc. describe how the death of that person has affected their lives.

BigmanPigman

(51,611 posts)

3. It's sort of like the story "The Lottery"

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Wed Feb 14, 2018, 11:36 PM

Feb 2018

by Shirley Jackson. That was about stoning a person though.

She also wrote "Life Among the Savages" which is very funny.

global1

(25,253 posts)

4. The Only Thing I'd Change Is The Ball Should Be Drawn For Every Citizen Killed....

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 02:05 AM

Feb 2018

in a mass shooting. Given the amount of mass shootings we have - we should be able to replace all of Congress within a year or two. Then we elect people that won't take money from the NRA and want to do something to stop this (to use a Trump term) carnage.

Gabi Hayes

(28,795 posts)

5. How bout something along these lines?

Reply to flotsam (Original post)

Thu Feb 15, 2018, 03:17 AM

Feb 2018

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C_AK1dUWAAAfOq_?format=png

15 at a slice

I’ll supply the tumbril

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