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David wrote:Did they have AK-15s in public shops in 1920?
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18 this year, 1 every 60 hours....18 kids who feel so bad, so sad, they pick up a gun and shoot people. Why. Forget the availability and the stupidity of it for a minute. Why is this happening?
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There were fully automatic weapons around in the 20s, the Tommy Gun was readily available until full autos were restricted in I think the 30s.
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Also, the 18 school shootings thing is a total media fabrication.
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its not a total fabrication,
guns went off, or bullets landed, in school grounds on 18 different occasions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/heres-h ... -down.html

now you can certainly argue further but really? 2 of them have been major, with many casualties, and as i typed that i checked myself - WTAF! i just picked 2 bunches of dead children out of 18 different shooting scenarios!! how did i become so desensitized?
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Wokko wrote:There were fully automatic weapons around in the 20s, the Tommy Gun was readily available until full autos were restricted in I think the 30s.
Sure, but not widespread, and tommy guns were very expensive for the average joe. Magazine rifles were very widely owned, though.
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think positive wrote:its not a total fabrication,
guns went off, or bullets landed, in school grounds on 18 different occasions.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/15/heres-h ... -down.html

now you can certainly argue further but really? 2 of them have been major, with many casualties, and as i typed that i checked myself - WTAF! i just picked 2 bunches of dead children out of 18 different shooting scenarios!! how did i become so desensitized?
That's not what people think when you say "School Shooting" it's dog whistling.
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ok so how many on the list count?
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