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Brutal Luckovich toon on the gun vote (Original Post) n2doc Mar 2013 OP
Oh pish posh! Pure emotionalism! alcibiades_mystery Mar 2013 #1
You nailed it! tex-wyo-dem Mar 2013 #17
Maybe ask him Maynar Mar 2013 #22
Damn michigandem58 Mar 2013 #2
Brutal Luckovich toon on the gun vote The CCC Mar 2013 #3
More to the point, first graders don't write big donation checks to campaigns Fumesucker Mar 2013 #4
Dead first graders murdered by a lunatic with easy access to deadly firearms will never Ikonoklast Mar 2013 #9
More like.. 99Forever Mar 2013 #18
party of life! ZRT2209 Mar 2013 #5
Shit. That made me tear up. talkingmime Mar 2013 #6
It made me want to grab Wayne LaPierre and rip out his fucking trachea. 11 Bravo Mar 2013 #12
Oh fuck that - go for the lungs. talkingmime Mar 2013 #13
I'm hoping a portion of the lungs will remain attached ... to maximize Wayne's "discomfort". 11 Bravo Mar 2013 #15
Interesting perspective. I can relate to that. talkingmime Mar 2013 #16
Vote out ANY member of Congress who has an A NRA rating lobodons Mar 2013 #7
Hell, vote them all out and get new ones that will pass campaign finance reform! Dustlawyer Mar 2013 #8
Damn Straight Scalded Nun Mar 2013 #10
HUGE K & R !!! WillyT Mar 2013 #11
The blame for next shooting, and there will be another, randr Mar 2013 #14
K&R SunSeeker Mar 2013 #19
The only problem with the cartoon, of course, is that it should say "Gun Industry" instead of NRA. TrollBuster9090 Mar 2013 #20
Is he targeting Harry Reid? Egalitariat Mar 2013 #21
 

alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
1. Oh pish posh! Pure emotionalism!
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 10:50 AM
Mar 2013

What we need is RATIONAL arguments, like the kind we get from people who think the "government" is plotting to put them into camps; from people who spend significant portions of their yearly pay on their toy collection, so they can "stick it to the man;" from people who think American slavery and the Holocaust could have been avoided if only its victims were armed.

You know, the raaaaaaaaational people.

tex-wyo-dem

(3,190 posts)
17. You nailed it!
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 06:14 PM
Mar 2013

Just had a discussion on FB with one of my old high school friends, who's a gun nut. His arguement was that it's irrational to have an assault weapons ban when they can't even agree how to define what an assault weapon is, but in the same breathe admits that he believes the 2nd am was written so that the government wouldn't take over and take everybody's freedom (a la Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia).

Maynar

(769 posts)
22. Maybe ask him
Sat Mar 23, 2013, 02:34 AM
Mar 2013

what his views are on porn. The definition is equally elusive, maybe it'll spark some insight.

Ikonoklast

(23,973 posts)
9. Dead first graders murdered by a lunatic with easy access to deadly firearms will never
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 03:31 PM
Mar 2013

be able to grow up, and vote.

99Forever

(14,524 posts)
18. More like..
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 06:19 PM
Mar 2013

... to Delicate Flowers and the NRA, the deaths and mutilation of first graders don't matter, only their *The Precious* does.

 

lobodons

(1,290 posts)
7. Vote out ANY member of Congress who has an A NRA rating
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:17 PM
Mar 2013

Its simple 1st grade math boys and girls. There are more of us than them. No way any member of Congress should remain in office if they have an A NRA rating. Vote out ANY member of Congress who has an A NRA rating.

Dustlawyer

(10,495 posts)
8. Hell, vote them all out and get new ones that will pass campaign finance reform!
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 01:40 PM
Mar 2013

Then when 90% of us want something, we can get it!

Scalded Nun

(1,236 posts)
10. Damn Straight
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 03:51 PM
Mar 2013

Try it that way, just once even for starters.

Include in that those against corporate welfare, warmongering (aka cowards), and runaway corporations.

They must also be against patenting 'life' (Monsanto comes to mind).

If it does not work out then try something new.

Either way we'll be no worse off than we are now.

Maybe we can ever recover our country's soul.

randr

(12,411 posts)
14. The blame for next shooting, and there will be another,
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:19 PM
Mar 2013

will fall directly on those who do the NRA's bidding.

TrollBuster9090

(5,954 posts)
20. The only problem with the cartoon, of course, is that it should say "Gun Industry" instead of NRA.
Fri Mar 22, 2013, 07:23 PM
Mar 2013

We all know that the NRA is just a front organization designed to DRAW ATTENTION AWAY from the gun industry and the gun lobby who are making billions of dollars off of selling guns to paranoid crackpots.

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