NBC on Dec.15 : Only handguns used in Newton, CT shooting. Lanza left Rifle in car.

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So if 5 pitbulls get loose in disneyland and maul a bunch of babies and then a news report comes on saying ban pitbulls, people who dont have pitbulls and people who hate pitbulls are going to get behind it because they see it as a time they can use backing of a powerful institution/force to make something happen that otherwise they may have given very little thought to.

Thing is pitbull maulings don't occur as frequently as mass shootings Mowgli
 

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Help me out here brehs about the point of this thread...what's more important, the fact that there was (yet another) mass killing, or the type of gun used?
 

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Help me out here brehs about the point of this thread...what's more important, the fact that there was (yet another) mass killing, or the type of gun used?

that's my point...i'm not a fan of guns at all...but they exist to gotta deal with it.


Again this is a situation that coulda been avoided if this fool was properly cared for mentally. Also, i think the executive order on background check was insane in the fact that we didn't already have that.

I will say the media is hyper-sensitive to gun violence now, i'm sure school shootings happen, but it seems framed to the discourse now...i mean Gun control is all in the media and all of a sudden MULTIPLE school shootings occur in less than two months?

Either people are really that stupid or people are that crazy.

Both of which means we need to get some of these guns off the streets.
 

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gun control has always been an issue. in fact we had a gun control thread going on when the shooting happened. I hate this suggestion that the conversation about gun control begins or ends with 'mass shootings'
 

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Thing is pitbull maulings don't occur as frequently as mass shootings Mowgli

Don't know how many were pit bulls but there were 38 fatal dog attacks in 2012 compared with about 80 or so people killed by mass shootings in the same time frame.

"First they came for your guns and then they came for your dogs..."
 

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gun control has always been an issue. in fact we had a gun control thread going on when the shooting happened. I hate this suggestion that the conversation about gun control begins or ends with 'mass shootings'

agreed.
We have a gun problem. Neither side wants to take a practical approach to the situation.

So we will still have a gun problem.
 

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agreed.
We have a gun problem. Neither side wants to take a practical approach to the situation.

So we will still have a gun problem.

I think doing something rather than nothing is pretty practical

maybe I'm just a 'glass half full' type of guy, but I don't see the purpose of thinking things can never change (when things are constantly changing)

I think there's a very reasonable conversation going on right now. that's why I asked you before what you find so unreasonable. I don't see any kind of strong voice behind something like an all out ban on guns. it just seems like a strawman
 

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Don't know how many were pit bulls but there were 38 fatal dog attacks in 2012 compared with about 80 or so people killed by mass shootings in the same time frame.

"First they came for your guns and then they came for your dogs..."

aren't certain breeds of dogs illegal in some states and cities???
 

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Thing is pitbull maulings don't occur as frequently as mass shootings Mowgli

Ten + people are kiled by pitbulls each year. Many more are mauled each year. Pitbulls have been around a lot longer then the school shooting phenom. I think you're wrong here little fella. The logic to ban guns holds no weight and isnt actually based on sound logic because the hypocrisy is so apparent when the same logic is carried over to other things that should be banned based on the same logic.
 

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Big Mel just got mauled by a pitbull the other day b

but I don't know why people compare gun deaths, to deaths caused by dogs, hammers, cars, cancer, earthquakes, etc
 

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Ten + people are kiled by pitbulls each year. Many more are mauled each year. Pitbulls have been around a lot longer then the school shooting phenom. I think you're wrong. The logic to ban guns holds no weight and isnt actually based on sound logic because the hypocrisy is so apparent when the same logic is carried over to other things that should be banned based on the same logic.

Pitbulls are not natural killers. The American Kennel Club actually recommends against using Pits as guard dogs because they're too friendly. In order to turn a pitbull into a weapon, you have to abuse/train it in a certain way.

Guns are made specifically to kill. They have no other use, and their original function is as weaponry.
 

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Big Mel just got mauled by a pitbull the other day b

but I don't know why people compare gun deaths, to deaths caused by dogs, hammers, cars, cancer, earthquakes, etc


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