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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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11. This is why the terms of debate have been re-scrambled.

Reply to pablo_marmol (Reply #8)

Sun Sep 13, 2015, 02:45 PM

Sep 2015

No more "mass murder," but instead "mass shooting," better to pump up the volume. And re-definitions and "new studies" which reveal much higher "gun violence®" rates than what the FBI (and other agencies) have reported. Lots of "epidemics," (to pump up the old public health model), "spikes," "sudden increases," and the like.

This dynamic was and is still used in WOD debates.

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