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The horrific mass shooting at a school in Parkland, Florida, has reignited protests for meaningful political action in the United States. According to Quinnipiac Poll, an independent, non-partisan public opinion poll, currently 66% of American voters support stricter gun laws, and it's the highest level ever measured. People are expressing their thoughts about these issues all over the internet, and some are resonating with the public so much, Bored Panda has decided to compile them into a list.

From brutally honest jokes to interesting insights, the entries below will certainly stir your thoughts about the uncomfortable debate American society needs to have. Scroll down to check them out, and upvote your favorites!

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    Kristel
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A kid should never have to worry about such a thing. Yet still, this is really happening. Heart-breaking. I think if I had a child and was in this situation, I couldn't hold up my brave parent face and would have broken down crying, that my baby is thinking about things like this. It even hurts me that a child I do not even know, is thinking about things like this.

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    John L
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That should pretty much cover everything, don't you think? 00-OMG-5a9...e90153.gif 00-OMG-5a9003ee90153.gif

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    MITS Koala
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    my f*****g goat have better suggestion than that

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    Zenozenobee
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yep, but they are mature enough to join the Army.

    Cori Cox
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    And buy an assault rifle. Mind boggling. Just mind boggling.

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    Daria B
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Also, drinking alcohol is forbidden before 21, but guns are given to teens without any problem.

    Kjorn
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Welcome to 'Murica! whre NRA are more powerfull than people

    Patti
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Stupid republican red necks

    Blue Cicada
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not all republicans are stupid. Not all red necks are racist and hateful.

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    Christina Sersif
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    But mature enough to be shot by one :(

    Lisa Reuss
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This is perfect. I know people who thought those girls who dated a 35-year-old Roy Moore were mature enough to make that decision, and now deride high schoolers for speaking out against guns.

    Alex (TheSarcasticSister)
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Some people's mindsets seem to be that if it's inconvenient for them, people are too immature. If it's convenient, they're mature enough. Messed up...

    David Daisy May Boldock
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    High-profile shootings don’t appear to lead to more support for gun control.

    Frank Andrea Pennestri
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    The Young Man talking to the Congressman, ripped him another back exit...what a site!

    Doubanji
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Yet only today I saw a video of a very obviously 13 year old buying a gun in the USA. 17 & 18 year olds are too immature to have opinions but 13 year olds are plenty mature enough to buy guns... Gotta love the logic!!

    Faith Stroup
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I personally dont think its the guns that are the issue, its the people behind them. We just need stricter gun control, background checks, etc

    Carlos Superhuerta
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    America! the only country in the world where you are Old enough to go murder someone in another country, but not old enough to have a beer.

    Jilltdcatlady
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is even more humiliating to those calling the 18 year olds immature, THAT THOSE "KIDS" CAN VOTE!!!

    Gillian Black
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    go to fight for your country but not old enough to make the right choice on gun control

    Carol Williams
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You're ALWAYS old enough for some old jerk to crawl on you...

    Linda Sellers
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    That's funny because 13-14 yr olds and 17-18 yr olds have both killed and have been killed. And the ones who have killed knew exactly what they were doing too. Their opinions are extremely important. Really the most important since teens are responsible for the school shootings. Adults should pay close attention to their opinions.

    Pattie Kelly
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Sorry let me clear up a mistake in the post below. The POLICE did not lessen the punishment on students and changed the punishment for server cases but the school board did. They wanted to get a "Good School Safety Award".

    Pattie Kelly
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I say increase the age to 21, let us not forget the "system" failed the children in this case. There were 39 home visits from the police to Cruz's home none were put in the data base, Cruz had comments on his face book about shooting up kids at school. It was called into the FBI and the FBI took it no further. He had pictures of tortured animals on his face book and parents called the school and nothing was done, the police department had changed their punishment on children in that school, less punishment for more violent incidents, because they wanted a SCHOOL SAFETY AWARD!!!!! So a lot of complaints on Cruz in school by other students were brushed over not just on him but all students. The school was using less punishment and more counseling to students who showed grave danger in schools. ALL FOR AN AWARD. That argument about being "old enough to go in the military" We have no draft as in the past and kids are volunteering to go into the military not like Viet Nam.

    Glenna Wheatley
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Right, cause slandering a conservative just HAD to be slipped in there. OMGod. The f*****g children are doomed to be undereducated, indoctrinated, and lose their free will in this world. STOP THE INSANITY!

    Jillian Lloyd
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    So they're the ones most likely to be shot in school, but they aren't allowed to have an opinion on guns?!

    Anna Repp
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Same people think these kids are old enough to have an AR15, but not old enough to NOT want to own one.

    Analyn Lahr
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Do those morons realize that 18 is the voting age? By law, they are mature enough to have opinions.

    Pat Hege
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Really mature thinking there Roy Moore

    Tanja Caloi
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    tbh if I lived in a country like that I would be eating soap too

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    BitterSweetWisdom
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Guns shouldn't be completely banned, however, gun laws should be more enforced and restricting. Also, the FBI should do their job, and mentally unstable people need to be helped. I'm pretty sure that I don't support the whole Roy Moore statement. That is plain disgusting and Roy Moore should be locked up for pedophilia.

    cayenne523
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Says someone probably dating a 14 year old.

    Sue Knerl
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Travel the world and kill people.

    Kenya Leal
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Weren't teens just eating tide pods like not long ago? Lol

    Alice Herrick-Davis
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    UNLESS they are against Gun Control - then they don't count anymore.

    Mont
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    13 and 14 years olds were not mature enough to date Roy Moore. 17 and 18 years olds are too immature to have opinions on gun control. See how that works?

    Jonathan Eatsalot
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    7 years ago

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    Yes Roman Polanski is still currently defended by Libs for raping a 13 year old. Good point.

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    Frank Law
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Lumping all republicans into one stance on this issue is naive, counterproductive and divisive. Find common ground and build instead of deconstruct people!

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    David Daisy May Boldock
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    America has 4.4 percent of the world’s population, but almost half of the civilian-owned guns around the world.

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    Agnes Jekyll
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Exactly puritan American. Kill each other but god forbid you have consensual pleasure

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    Stille20
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I'm just glad this upcoming generation is making such a powerful show of getting involved when they have repeatedly been accused of being lazy and disengaged

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    WhiteFox
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    by the way. why the hell are kinder eggs banned over there? im from australia

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    Diana Hockley
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Australians don't know whether to laugh or cry. We are horrified by what we are hearing. Since gun control was enacted back in the 1990s we have NOT HAD ONE MASS SHOOTING! Domestic shootings have crashed and now, pretty much the only people with illegal guns are the criminals who will get them no matter what we do. Only Australians legally allowed guns are defence force personnel (and not in public) police (in public) farmers (only on their farm) security guards (only on the armoured vehicle) commercial shooters (only in their trucks) sporting shooters (only at the gun club/rifle range). Police here check their gun owners in their own districts every two years and every single licensed gun has to be accounted for and the storage comply with regulations - gun and ammo separately kept.

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    Peta_C
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I hated 'liking' this but it's an excellent point.

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    Shawn Frappe
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This need to be higher on the list. TRUTH.

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    Agnes Jekyll
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Every adult in the USA who does not support these child survivors should be ashamed.

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    Shruti Naik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Teachers don't want to handle guns. They're there to educate, not kill.

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    Fire Bird
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    May clearly be the case if teachers can carry a gun. Can you imagine, the teacher with a gun lurking around the corner with gun drawn and a cop around another corner lurking with their gun drawn and they both jump out. You can imagine what will happen next.

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    Em B
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    World- NO!!! (-muttering-)Dumbass...

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    Daria B
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    You are more than kids. You are people with rights. And if you have the right not to be killed, then the current gun laws in America are legal crime.

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    Jef Bateman
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    A teacher in Utah shot herself in the bathroom by accident in 2014. You can watch Youtube videos of enraged teachers smashing instruments or throwing things at students. I don't trust anybody with a gun in such a tense situation -- even a teacher.

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    Shruti Naik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I can't believe the people at the NRA had the guts to do this...they want to show that celebrities are on their side? really?

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    Agnes Jekyll
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Bill O'Reilly is a pig. He's discounting the reactions of children who've been shot at or had friends die, and given more credence to the adults who watch this happen and refuse to protect them. He must be in the pocket of the NRA

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    Shruti Naik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder if he would've continued to stand up for the NRA had the shooter walked into his children's school and shot them dead.

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    Zenozenobee
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    "The teacher's galactic republic"! where can we sign up as a teacher's Jedi school?

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    TheTerrorHorde
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    had a teacher toss a chalk board eraser at our heads once because we were talking in class and he wanted us to shut up. yeah. Lets get that guy a gun.

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    Heidrance
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    teens owning elected officials so hard that they cry tuesdays, perhaps?

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    Rémi G
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Of course he would never say 'give' teachers guns in the litteral sense. He was probably meaning ' we must let teachers BUY guns'

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    Suzi Gauthier
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Not to mention, most of the school shooters commit suicide or are pushing for suicide by cop anyway, so ANYONE having a gun at the school wouldn't help.

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    Math Wilson
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I know it can be unpopular. I’m from Brazil, where guns aren’t easily purchased as in USA. I’m against such an easy way to get your hands on powerful guns, but the problem is more deep rooted. The true problem is not the guns. The true problem is that a person have a killing will in his heart. Are we ignoring the fact that someone -wanted- to kill a lot of teenagers? Why? There is more than just guns wrong in United States. There is killings with knives and rocks too. We need to work on creating children that don’t want to kill others. A society that doesn’t let violence grow. Armed or not.

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    Stille20
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    OMG..This should be funny... but it is

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    Agnes Jekyll
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    of course, and that teacher will have to live with that for the rest of her or his life. Teachers teach students about life; they should never be expected to take a life.

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    Shruti Naik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    the statistics explain themselves. Ban guns!

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    Shruti Naik
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I wonder how he'd feel if someone walked into his grand kids schools and shot them. But its sad to even think that the death of his own child might change his heart while the death of 200 other children have had no effect. Its sad....

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    Matthew Hyder
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    7 years ago

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    They shouldn't have to, but what if they do if times get dark? :( This kind of makes me think of having teachers as police or pomice as teachers...almost military...

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    Bunnies4Zwin
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Did you know, that practically ALL young people with voting rights in the UK voted against Brexit? It, in the end is their world WE are in control of. Why can't we just give them a bigger focus.

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    May Be
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    It is never a good idea to bring a handgun to an AR-15 fight.

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    TheTerrorHorde
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    18 school shootings since the beginning of the year! Its only FEBRUARY 23rd! exclusing holidays and weekends, thats almost 1 school shooting a day not to mention how have occured since I started this post! but hey, in total thats still less than 500 children right? Its just a few! a few?? Any number higher than 0 is too many!

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    Agnes Jekyll
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Schooled by the teenagers who are smarter and mored eloquent and more emotionally balanced that this moron.

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    Stille20
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    This seems over dramatic, but innocent people are being shot by cops who have far more training.

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    Shruti Naik
    Community Member
    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Teens. You don't know the amount of havoc the power of angry, well-spoken teenagers can create. These kids are the future of America.

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    Alain
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    I agree and share the same brain.... call me insane , I will not kill a single soul unless they ban gun-control , here in Holland where I live I survived every school easily because no-one was pointing a gun at me but no matter how high you go up there , there's never a curved horizon to see I swear....

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    Lisa Reuss
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    If Trump see this, he will retweet it to further his agenda. He's just that clueless.

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    Vendy Vafer
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Better yet, send all those who so staunchly protect their 2nd amendment to Afghanistan.They can prove that having a gun betters your odds to staying alive against others with guns. Once I see how they fare, maybe I'll change my mind.

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    Amin Sharieff
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    7 years ago Created by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

    Um RaY1, is there a self esteem issue you have ? Small hands? Small cerebrum? Just small ..uh..issues that a gun makes you feel 'protected'?

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