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Vogon_Glory

(10,337 posts) Wed Apr 29, 2026, 08:34 AM Wednesday

Selling your gun-nut friend on why Donnie' ball room is a bad idea

Ball rooms provide mass shooters with better fields of fire and make it easier for shooters to pick out targets and shoot them.

Multi-storied office wings with desks and walls and hallways with corners make it more difficult for shooters to pick out targets for mass mayhem. Add an armor-plated panic room or three and more folks might even survive an attack.

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Selling your gun-nut friend on why Donnie' ball room is a bad idea (Original Post) Vogon_Glory Wednesday OP

I'm really not sure this makes any sense as an argument. Melon Wednesday #1

Melon

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1. I'm really not sure this makes any sense as an argument.

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Wed Apr 29, 2026, 09:07 AM

Wednesday

The ballroom would be secured in the white house. An office building has a completely different use than a ballroom.

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