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Originally Posted by Shnabdabber

The number of mass shootings in the US is OBVIOUSLY linked to the high number of guns available? Obviously?

Are you trying to imply the firearm itself is responsible for the crime, or that there is a absolute direct correlation between firearms ownership and mass shooting deaths?

The gun is a tool with one purpose. The responsibility falls on a populace that combines arrogance, fear and stupidity to flood its territory with that tool and allows those same three traits to lead them into using it.

Or passing off your opinion as fact by qualifying it with "obviously?".

Either way it's completely false and if you would like to back it up with statistics, then by all means have at er.

...or do you actually think that fewer guns would lead to more shootings?

I think we both know where the US ranks in terms of availability of guns and incidence of shootings. People who possess a tool are more likely to use it. Or maybe it's actually a localized hole in the ozone lair frying people's brains and turning them stupid.

Not once did I mention the answer was "even more guns" be available, but people with the trained ability to defend themselves should at least have that option and not be a handcuffed victim waiting for their bullet. But continue trying to put words in peoples mouths if you think it helps you defend your position.

Pot, meet kettle. Your response to ernie was a bid to put words in his mouth. Don't whine about people doing to you what you do to others.

Ahh yes. The fear driven guilt trip. If people do not agree with your point of view then they are unsympathetic towards victims of criminal acts.

Given you advocate a position that ensures a continued high rate of such criminal acts, then yes, I have to believe you are unsympathetic.

Those same families you love to use in the gravedancing to try and prove a misguided point are more and more becoming resentful of their tragedy being used as a grandstand for the anti gun agenda.

Pot meet kettle, redux. Didn't you just chastise me for allegedly passing my opinion off as fact?

This backhanded crap won't work on me. I was in my school when three of my friends were shot at. One died, one nearly bled to death in the hallway, and thankfully the third was not hit. I walked through that same hallway not 30 seconds before gun fire rang out and a crazed individual murdered one of my friends. Don't sit there and pretend victims of gun crime are all hands on deck when it comes to repealing a law abiding citizen of their rights.

Pot meet kettle, the third. Now you're attempting to put words in my mouth. I've never pretended that "victims of gun crime are all hands on deck". I am, in fact, well aware that such crimes tend to lead to an increase in gun sales. Like I said, fear and stupidity. You've built a society where you live in constant fear of being gunned down, and the response has become to try and arm everybody. The end result is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

You are free to believe what you believe, and given your zealotry I realize there is zero possibility of changing your mind. But I do find it incredibly sad that you've become an enabler for others who cause the very same tragedies that you yourself have endured.