“Republicans don’t care how many Americans are killed by guns”

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    No, neither of those would be any more effective than what already exists. Fake thefts? Really? Straw purchases will happen regardless. Frequency at this point is entirely unknown, so assuming it would be effective is also unknown.
     
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    How? Only if the gun is actually found, and identified, and if the serial number has not been removed, and the gun not reported as lost or stolen, or...or... so it is just a feel good idea.
     
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    You are not going to stop all mass shootings, the address is to do your best to limit them, make them more difficult

    No matter how you look at, there are three components in all mass shootings, the shooter, the target, and the weapon

    You can not predict who the next shooter will be; you can protect potential sites, but there are too many easy targets to protect them all, the only element you can control is the weapon, make it difficult to obtain a weapon thru regulation
     
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    Matters little where the shootings occur, the are all deaths due to guns, the issue is guns, and too easy access to guns
     
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    Your post was that black markets imply some illegality. There wasn't anything there to argue as it was a silly and snide comment.
     
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    Typical, a common theme among a lot of supposed conservatives, everything is about me, only me, f*ck anyone else, f*ck my fellow citizens, f*ck Americans, the world revolves around me
     
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    This. Plus there is technology to embed a serial number in the metal of a gun, so they can't simply be scraped off. Obviously there is a reason why black market guns have the serial numbers scraped off.
     
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    Perfect example

    Last week the dimwit walked into a gun store in Georgia and walked out the same day with his weapon, if time was taken to do a proper background check, at the least call the parents who warned about the guy, he wouldn’t have gotten the gun and there’d be ten Americans alive today
     
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    What a ignorant thread with a stupid headline.
     
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    A full third of black market guns are from straw purchases. That is known. A large percentage of other guns are simply from illegal person to person sales. So yes, we can determine the effectiveness.
     
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    No, but the numbers would be reduced, Mom and Dad would be a lot more attentive if they knew they were responsible for it, especially if liability insurance was added
     
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    Overused deflection, “you are exploiting” gun violence

    Wrong, “prayers and condolences” don’t address the problem, only attention to the issue
     
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    We can put a serial number into the gun itself so it can't be simply removed.

    Of course the gun registration will quickly catch people who repeated "lose" guns. So much better than a "feel good" idea.
     
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    Republicans don’t think that way?

    Have they ever even once even recognized that America has a problem with gun violence? That forty thousand Americans unnecessarily killed by guns is an issue?
     
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    By the same measure they do not care about all the children being killed in shootings. It works both ways you know.
     
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    Perhaps, but recognizing it is a problem is the first step, to date, Republicans haven’t even acknowledged gun violence is a problem
     
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    Since when did the boulder shooting become a religious issue.
     
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    They do all the time. Have Democrats even recognized that Chicago, Detroit, etc. have a murder problem? Have democrats ever, even once, recognized that AR-15s count for such a small percentage of gun violence that it's not even worth the time it takes to debate the issue? Democrats, in general, are the most ignorant gun debaters that exist. Keep talking about how AR-15s are military weapons or assault weapons. Keep harping on the gun show loophole. Keep trying to get background checks. All that does is prove your ignorance further.
     
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    Collating three or more events into one

    And you are incorrect, in general, States with stricter gun regulations suffer less from gun violence, and before you bring up the predictable Chicago, keep in mind gun easy Indiana is less than a twenty minute ride away
     
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    Private sales don’t require a background check, and by agreeing to follow the terms by checking “Agree” can get you a gun on the Internet (https://www.armslist.com/)
     
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    Thanks for stopping by, now back to your radio
     
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    Several democrats/liberals asserted it on the Twitter. They referred to this as a "white christian terrorist"... There's a thread. It's about why twitter doesn't take those posts down. On FB, this one said that he was staunchly anti trump, highly islamic, and obviously radicalized. Putting the dots together, that makes the shooter a radicalized islamic terrorist who shot up the food king.
     
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    This is going to be my first and final post. If you don't believe in the second amendment right to bear arms, you don't belong in this country. The first battle of Revolutionary War in Lexington and Concord was sparked by an attempt by the British to seize lawfully owned guns. To suggest that someone is not allowed to bear arms, and is subject to warrantless searches and seizures, is wholly un-American, un-constitutional, and traitorous. It is an attempt by a domestic enemy, Democrats, to take away our right to defend ourselves so they can establish tyranny over the majority of its people. It is unacceptable given that they have place guard troops at the capital for another three months. The Democrats intend to kill Americans that disagree with their viewpoint.
     
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    Of course Chicago has a murder problem, a gun problem, gun easy Indiana is less than a twenty minute ride away, access is easy

    AR-15s, or some other rapid fire weapon, has been involved in the vast majority of mass shootings, kills more quicker, and semantics over types of guns is irrelevant, they all kill, some faster than others
     
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    Second Amendment grants one the right to possess a gun as soon as you can definitively define what the prefatory clause of the Amendment means, until then, naught

    And, even as Scalia confirmed in the Heller case, no Constitutional right is absolute, they all can, and are, regulated

    The rest of your post is the usual talk radio rhetoric
     
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