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In reply to the discussion: Gun in hand, 68 year old woman saves boyfriend in attack [View all]VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)73. You carry your guns...I carry my insults!
        did you get hit?
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        should we just start posting every single gun fatality on that occurs ...on DU?
        VanillaRhapsody
        Nov 2015
        #1
      
        
        Perhaps it would drown out all these desperate posts trying to prove guns
        VanillaRhapsody
        Nov 2015
        #6
      
        
        Take out the suicides and you have appox 8,000 firearm deaths per year in the US,
        GGJohn
        Nov 2015
        #101
      
        
        In Japan, if a husband killes his wife and three kids, it is nit recorded as a murder/suicide.
        oneshooter
        Nov 2015
        #147
      
        
        Don't we have sooooo many "irresponsible gun owners" in this country???
        VanillaRhapsody
        Nov 2015
        #111
      
        
        beevulhasn't cited, nor posted links from, the NRA. YOU, on the other hand,
        Ghost in the Machine
        Nov 2015
        #84
      
        
        Now its congresses fault that you're a poor debater without any reliable source material?
        beevul
        Nov 2015
        #35
      
        
        statistics......you mean the statistics the NRA controlled REPUBLICAN CONGRESS
        VanillaRhapsody
        Nov 2015
        #36
      
        
        Well duh! That post just cited a recent gun control related CDC study ordered by President Obama
        DonP
        Nov 2015
        #133
      
        
        triple DUH! and I just showed YOU how the NRA runs Congress AND then the CDC
        VanillaRhapsody
        Nov 2015
        #140
      
        
        Prove what?  Good night and better luck next time, with your "approach" to discussion you need it
        DonP
        Nov 2015
        #69
      
        
        More exclamation points and all CAPS doesn't make you sound any less desperate or foolish
        DonP
        Nov 2015
        #79
      
        
        Vanilla, in a hurricane of gun-banner postings of killings, you found a fetid breeze?
        Eleanors38
        Nov 2015
        #131
      
        
        Nearly 10,000 American children are injured or killed by guns every year
        VanillaRhapsody
        Nov 2015
        #136