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Gun Nuts Blame Gun Control for Sandy Hook, Demand Right to Purchase Bazookas (Original Post) circlethesquare Dec 2014 OP
Of course they do... NoJusticeNoPeace Dec 2014 #1
Gun deaths tuhaybey Dec 2014 #2
The difference in philosophy is that red states insist on believing guns make everyone safer Major Nikon Dec 2014 #3
As long as they have Old Blue Politicalboi Dec 2014 #4
Lets see; they are breaking a gun law; yet they are "law abiding"???? zebonaut Dec 2014 #5

tuhaybey

(76 posts)
2. Gun deaths
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 06:36 PM
Dec 2014

There are a lot of reasons that red states have so many more gun deaths per capita than blue states. Certainly gun policy is one of them and the fact that guns are more useful, and hence more common, in rural states and rural states tend to be red. But, in my view, the sheer incidence of gunnutism is a big factor too. People who calmly use guns like tools tend to store and use them safely. Gun nuts tend to play with them like toys, leave them all over the place, get all paranoid, fixate on fantasies about killing "bad guys" so much that everybody they don't know starts to seem like they just might be that "bad guy" who is finally going to give them a chance to go all Death Wish...

Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
3. The difference in philosophy is that red states insist on believing guns make everyone safer
Thu Dec 18, 2014, 06:41 PM
Dec 2014

As if all we need to protect us against the gun nuts is more gun nuts.

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