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by mhoad 1313 days ago
Certainly nothing to do with the ridiculous gun laws. No sir. It’s multiculturalism.
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This isn’t a good faith reading of what I’m saying at all.

You could make really a really compelling argument that the US is better thought of as a more economically advanced Brazil rather than a more violent Germany. It seems clear to me that we have a constitutional amendment providing for a right to bare arms precisely because we emerged as a fractious collection of former colonies after armed struggle against England.