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Gun-Crazy Right Wing Howls for Bob Costas to Be Fired

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goddamnedfrank12/03/2012 6:31:29 pm PST

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Right, that 90% is not evenly distributed. There are a lot of paranoid weirdos hoarding a LOT of guns in America.

What could go wrong?

I have a lot of guns, more than the average gun owner even. Most of them were inherited. I don’t consider myself or my grandfathers to be paranoid weirdos, just people who grew up in an environment where hunting and target shooting was a big part of the culture.

Which isn’t to say that there aren’t a lot of paranoid weirdos, there are of course. It should be harder to purchase guns too.

re: #56 uncah91

I’d argue that the place to start looking would by the homogenous population of Finland and heterogenous population of America.

Yeah, that’s bullshit. The majority of violent crimes everywhere involve a victim and perpetrator of the same ethnicity. The difference is much more likely explained by poverty, education, and how each culture views the role of government.

It’s the same when people use homogeneity to explain why universal healthcare works there but can’t work here, the idea that people are intrinsically racist and only give a shit about society if almost everyone in it looks like them.