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SUSAN CRUSHBONE
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« on: January 23, 2013, 12:35:27 AM »

Stop with all these idiotic "look at people defending themselves!" posts. Especially Miles, who ought to know better- it's one thing for krazen (a certified troll) and some newbie to do it, but it's beneath you.

One thousand Americans have died since Newtown at the hands of guns. One thousand. That number in and of itself is indefensible.

Let me put that in perspective for you, as that is something that you gun-control types often seem to lack. Well over one thousand Americans have died since Newtown at the hands of hypertension and hypertensive renal disease. A far greater number have died of smoking-related causes.

Yet you people propose we do nothing. It's sickening. For what? Your right to overthrow the government? How about we cut crime by making it legal to be black for one thing (because it's practically illegal when one in three wind up in prison), and ending the insane "War" on Drugs?

False assumptions much?
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SUSAN CRUSHBONE
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« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2013, 08:57:05 AM »

Not disputing your claim, a Person, but why is that an argument against trying to solve the gun problem? Seems like it's a large number of people that shouldn't have to die.

The point was that it's not, in any reasonable context, a "large number of people." While the number of people that die of smoking-related causes is. (And there is obviously less of a "purpose" for tobacco than for guns)
Consistency would be nice, is all I'm saying.
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2013, 12:16:09 PM »

The claim was that "this number is, in and of itself, indefensible."
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