AOC rips Boebert for sharing photo of kids with guns, says Republicans erasing Christmas' meaning

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  1. Arkanis

    Arkanis Well-Known Member

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    Get some information before coming to debate with me.

    Suicide rate:

    UK: 11.2/100,000
    US: 13.42/100,000

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suici...icide rate of 11.2,the United Kingdom in 1981.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suici...age-adjusted suicide,are 132 suicides per day.
     
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    Apparently didn't look at the link aye? You never heard of Opioids or the Fentanyl epidemic we have in this nation.

    Here is a key part of the link that you chose not to clicky, clicky.

    72% Opioids are a factor in 7 out of every 10 overdose deaths.
     
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    You aint lying Bro :) I been looking at a convertion kit, nit I couldn't pass it up.. The guy I did some sewing for owns a gun store and he sold it to me his cost $175 bucks.. So I have some headroom to expand it..
     
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    ButterBalls Well-Known Member

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    I never concern myself with suicide by any means.. If a coward is gonna kill themselves they have thousands of options beyond a firearm. I just chalk it up to Dawins natural selection.

    More air for us!
     
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    What the best part of a link, the headline, the rest, not so much ;)
     
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    Boebert proves once and for all that the GOP is electing IDIOTS to congress,her Marjorie Taylor Greene, Louis Gohmert raving idiots.
     
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  7. Arkanis

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    It's funny because I also use the Darwin reference when I talk about Republicans who refuse to get vaccinated....
     
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    Actually, no it wasn't. Not like today. Back in the day, gun owners were much more responsible than today.
     
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    It's you who doesn't understand.

    You justify the deaths by guns by the fact that there are more deaths by overdose.

    Opioids are illegal in this country and the state spends billions of dollars to fight them.

    Guns are perfectly legal and you glorify them.

    Is that clearer?
     
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    Joe knows Well-Known Member

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    The love for guns is not a lobby. It’s a constitutional right that unfortunately has to be lobbied for because of how many people fear something that should not be feared. Gun handling should be taught in schools in my opinion.
     
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    What a lovely touching story. Of course, it has nothing at all to do with a woman in Congress that has her four kids in front of a CHRISTMAS TREE with guns just days after a kid (with the help of his parents) just shot four kids in school. The picture truly captures the "peace on earth, good will towards men" meaning of the season.
    And to top it off, you say AOC can go to hell. That's real Christmas spirit there.
     
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    Just curious, but what is the "real" meaning of Christmas?
     
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    Thanks to this constitutional right, any unbalanced teenager can turn into a mass shooter.

    But I suppose you're going to tell me that the incredible number of mass killings in the US is the price of this beautiful freedom.
     
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    If you don't know, I'm not one to explain it to you Bro :( Maybe as a man of the cloth?
     
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    No, what weird is you thinking that pharmaceutical research and manufacturers make products whose sole purpose is to kill people. Talk about discombobulated.
     
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    You claimed the largest deadly lobby group is the gun lobby and then shot out 33,000 suicide deaths by guns. I pointed out that the Pharmaceutical DWARFS the gun lobby and by far more people die from Pharmaceutical overdoses than that of gun suicides. And it's pretty asinine of you to claim I am justifying deaths by guns by pointing out to you a vastly larger problem in this nation. I surely don't claim you are justifying overdose deaths because you advocate against guns.

    Also, where in the hell did you ever get that Opioids are illegal in this country? Opioids alone are a 25 billion a year windfall for Pharmaceutical companies. They make them more addictive not out of good conscience!
     
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    By telling people there are boggy men around every corner trying to get you and your family in your house while you're asleep. In other words.....fear.
     
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    The real meaning of CHRISTMAS... PEACE ON EARTH GOOD WILL TO ALL!!!!
     
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    No.....no it shouldn't.
     
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    Then you would be flying against Science. People with natural immunity have more protection than double-dose vaccinated per the new Israel Study released today.... and per virtually every study on the matter. It is the Science deniers that are ignoring natural immunity in those that have recovered.
     
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    People have the freedom to make choices, at least most of the time.
    I don't have a problem with people teaching their kids gun safety, it should be done if they are to handle weapons, and maybe everyone should, just in case they run across them.
    I do find it mildly disturbing that people glorify guns, like having their family pose for pictures holding guns. Why would people glorify them? Because, for some, guns represent power, and they somehow feel more powerful when they are holding guns. That is the exact sentiment that leads to shootings, that the person with the gun gets to wield that power over others, usually people they don't agree with or maybe have slighted them in the past (bullying, arguments, etc).
    To me, taking pictures like that indicate that those people are reveling in the power of a gun. Not hunting or target shooting, but power. To me, this is the biggest danger of guns, combined with the sheer numbers of them so keeping them out of the hands of those who shouldn't have them almost impossible.
    That being said, hopefully AOC learns how to control her messaging. She sometimes shoots off her mouth when she should be quiet. I think she was biased based on Boebert's recent actions/words about her buddy, Omar.
     
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    Learn history Bro :) Just because total population makes it look like MORE doesn't dismiss the fact that almost ever settler, cowpoke, drifter and home in America had a firearm from the musket to the 45colt, Winchester
    repeating rifle.

    Winchester Repeating Arms Company
    Founded: 1855



    It's almost comical you would argue the point :)
     
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    Never claimed their sole purpose is to kill people. That is your fallacy argument. To intentionally misrepresent a product that results in unintended consequences of a severely addicted product to increase profits is beyond reprehensible.

    Yes, talk about discombobulated
     
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    Do you use the same reference for blacks who refuse to get vaccinated? Why is it always republicans and never the perpetually oppressed?
     
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    Fear as in global warming, masks, vaccines, lethal white supremacists and so on? The only thing the left has besides freebies for every voter is fear.
     
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