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In reply to the discussion: (x-post from LBN) AG Maura Healey: We will win gun lawsuit [View all]Duckhunter935
(16,974 posts)6. Hunting is not the only reason to own a weapon
        You do realize that right?
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                        (x-post from LBN) AG Maura Healey: We will win gun lawsuit [View all]
							discntnt_irny_srcsm
							Oct 2016
							OP
                        
        
        I know that we're better at controling fully-automatics than we are at controling semi-automatics.
        stone space
        Oct 2016
        #20
      
        
        Bicycles kill three times as many people annually as semiautomatic rifles do....
        benEzra
        Oct 2016
        #8
      
        
        Alcohol is a drug. For some people, guns are not a drug, so your analogy fails.
        stone space
        Oct 2016
        #28
      
        
        Both are semi-controversial consumer products that lead to some deaths from abuse,
        benEzra
        Oct 2016
        #37
      
        
        Much of American prohibition history is based on the repugnancy of physical images...
        Eleanors38
        Oct 2016
        #42
      
        
        I may be mistaken, but haven't you advocated for a complete ban of all firearms?
        Marengo
        Oct 2016
        #9
      
        
        Healy is too ignorant and ideologically blinkered to know it would be a pyrric victory.
        pablo_marmol
        Oct 2016
        #38
      
        
        Going off the reservation usually doesn't bode well for the long term.
        discntnt_irny_srcsm
        Oct 2016
        #41
      
        
        Healy is also an activist Drug Warrior, joining with the GOP governor of MA.
        Eleanors38
        Oct 2016
        #43