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Showing Original Post only (View all)If a pressure cooker bomb is a WMD, why does that not apply to rifles like AR-15 [View all]
That have killed by far more people?
Is a gun a WMD if a pressure cooker bomb is defined as one too?
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If a pressure cooker bomb is a WMD, why does that not apply to rifles like AR-15 [View all]
itsrobert
Apr 2013
OP
any weapon that is designed or intended to cause death or serious bodily injury ...gun.
spanone
Apr 2013
#16
If you can't tell the difference between a gun and a bomb, for cryin' out loud, I can't help you.
Bake
Apr 2013
#18
And pressure cooker. And cars. And planes. And lighters (catch a house on fire with one)
The Straight Story
Apr 2013
#22
It's a definition giving big brother wide latitude to categorize any act by the un-cleansed
indepat
Apr 2013
#41
Bill Maher said last night that if a pressure cooker bomb is considered WMD,
City Lights
Apr 2013
#13
i have wondered the same. 26 murdered in newtown ....was that not mass destruction?
spanone
Apr 2013
#14
Please tell the admins. They need to hear this until it sinks in. Most Dems are not gun nuts.
Electric Monk
Apr 2013
#37