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https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/not...uPlKzhPdEo
With an even more greatly divided country, universities teaching anti Americans values, wars, open borders.........
More and more law abiding Americans are locked and loaded
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Denies FEAR is the motivation for gun acquisition, then initiates an OP with a story that demonstrates that it absolutely is! :facepalm:
The MAGAt thought processes and (lack of) rational thinking on display yet again.
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The
majority of Americans do not own a gun and do not
want to own a gun (though among those fearful Republicans, it’s close to 50-50).
Why do we not want to own a gun? Because rather than protecting ourselves and our families,
having a gun in our home endangers them.
BTW,
half of the guns in America are owned by just 3% of Americans; collectors and gun nuts.
Finally, if owning a gun makes you safer, why does the US have (by far!)
the highest homicide rate of all developed peers?
We don’t have to live with this mayhem; we don’t have to live in fear. Other countries have left it behind and
seen their homicide rates plummet. It just takes the will and the realization that we don’t all need to be ruled by a tiny minority.
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Fear is powerful but not always unjustified. In the current climate, were I Jewish (or Arab descent, for that matter), I'd be taking a hard look at my surroundings for points of vulnerability. But I think the wider picture is that the guns these new owners are getting are not going to be as much help as they think. Against a single person approaching you with a weapon visible? Maybe. Against a well-armed-person popping into your place of worship spraying bullets? Less maybe. Oops your toddler picked up the weapon? More maybe.
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Just noting that the title of this thread does not align with the link from the OP.
The implication is that Biden's policies are anti-Semitic.
The text of the OP talks about all sorts of other issues.
Not sure what topic we are discussing.
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The OP has no idea what policy he is referring to either. He just has to work Biden in somehow.
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I have a lot of Jewish friends. Not all, but a large percentage of them have or will be buying their first, but not last gun, in the last month. They have also signed up for classes.
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pdq wrote:
The majority of Americans do not own a gun and do not want to own a gun (though among those fearful Republicans, it’s close to 50-50).
Why do we not want to own a gun? Because rather than protecting ourselves and our families, having a gun in our home endangers them.
BTW, half of the guns in America are owned by just 3% of Americans; collectors and gun nuts.
Finally, if owning a gun makes you safer, why does the US have (by far!) the highest homicide rate of all developed peers?

We don’t have to live with this mayhem; we don’t have to live in fear. Other countries have left it behind and seen their homicide rates plummet. It just takes the will and the realization that we don’t all need to be ruled by a tiny minority.
If you add all of the planets nations, the USA falls mid pack, further if you remove 5 liberal run cities, Chicago, Baltimore, Houston, Washington DC and New Orleans, the USA suddenly is one of the ten safest countries for gun violence.