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pacalo

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5. Assault weapons don't belong in the mainstream.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Thu Aug 28, 2025, 11:43 PM

Aug 28

There is no acceptable excuse for owning one in light of how many treasured children & adults have had their lives snuffed out in mass shootings. If we lived in a just world assault weapons would have been outlawed after the first mass school shooting in Columbine.

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George Takei: [View all] applegrove Aug 28 OP

What did Hannity say that Takei was responding to? DavidDvorkin Aug 28 #1

I added the link that was at the top to my op. That is George Takei: applegrove Aug 28 #2

Thanks! DavidDvorkin Aug 29 #6

"...every school in the country should have a metal detector." MIButterfly Aug 28 #3

I wonder if insHannity is willing to pay more taxes RandomNumbers Aug 29 #9

I don't 'blame guns', I blame HANNITY and other rightwing criminal's MOUTHS FIRST, Jack Valentino Aug 28 #4

I blame the NRA, the entire Republican Party, FOX News & their viewers, and yeah Hannity ReRe Aug 29 #7

Assault weapons don't belong in the mainstream. pacalo Aug 28 #5

Amen. MIButterfly Aug 29 #8

Hannity is not an idiot. He is fully aware of the problem and has no serious problem with it. Passages Aug 29 #10