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mikehiggins

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3. From my early youth, maybe 10 or 11 I wanted a 9mm German Luger.
Wed Sep 2, 2015, 10:41 AM
Sep 2015

At various times I came close (once had a chance at buying one valued at about 100k but just didn't know it so I let it slip by) but if you were to pin me down I could not say why it was such an obsession. Never bought a handgun, or a rifle or an AR-15, etc., etc. All I wanted was a Luger.

So then a bunch of little kids were gunned down by a man with a gun. I, like all of us, had already lost the Kennedy's, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X and hundreds and hundreds more. It was the image of a little kid, maybe less than 50 pounds, getting shot with a round that literally tears the limbs off soldiers in Viet Nam, Iraq, Afghanistan that turned my head.

I think we should take the position that no one should have guns in this society. Screw the NRA and all the others who are happy to see the mangled bodies of our children if it helps sell more weaponry. Okay, they don't give a shit about the kids, I don't give a shit about their phony arguments pushed on people who listen to slogans rather than facts.

Should we disarm this nation. Absolutely. How hard is it to figure that out.

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That's the same way I feel. ileus Sep 2015 #1
So what are your thoughts? Duckhunter935 Sep 2015 #2
From my early youth, maybe 10 or 11 I wanted a 9mm German Luger. mikehiggins Sep 2015 #3
Good for you ... no. DonP Sep 2015 #4
Not much here. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #5
Kick SecularMotion Sep 2015 #6
Did anyone else quit reading when he said... Kang Colby Sep 2015 #7
I thought the same thing... ileus Sep 2015 #8
He should have done more research... Kang Colby Sep 2015 #9
The first thing, and I mean the VERY first thing... beevul Sep 2015 #10
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