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    steross reacted to cowboyinexile's post in the thread Funny Political Memes with Winner Winner.
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    Ok, No problem. I just never thought any of us thought that these were normal people with no issues at all so was confused by the emphasis.
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    Huh?
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    Quick, cheap and easy is kinda the same thing as access. You can get a gun in Australia, but it isn't quick, cheap or easy. I do not...
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    Why do they choose guns when there are other methods that would be so much more lethal? And, in no way am I saying that the gun is...
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    I'm not either. Yes, I do agree with what you are saying is a more likely large factor.
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    steross reacted to HacklemanPoke's post in the thread US continues to go backward... with Like Like.
    I have never been an advocate of “it’s the video games” as a systemic underlying cause. Other countries have this and it doesn’t seem to...
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    And none of the people in Australia have that level of access and their rate is drastically lower. Their gun access isn't zero and...
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    Not sure that I agree with you that access isn’t a cause. I suppose it depends on how you define cause. For example, from my...
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    steross reacted to Bowers3's post in the thread US continues to go backward... with Like Like.
    Oh I think access to guns does lead to more gun violence of course. But it’s not a cause. That’s what I mean. I’m looking for what makes...
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    And what percent of them play video games? If you look at the real factors that are commonly associated it isn’t severe mental health...
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    Ok, but if you define mental health that way then it is unrealistic to think that any treatments, which are all studied and guided by...
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    steross replied to the thread Trump 47.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/climate/trump-public-lands-rule-biden.html?unlocked_article_code=1.lk8.UqyM.YbLnPDFHKCAH&smid=url-shar...
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    steross replied to the thread US continues to go backward....
    Hyperbolic statements aren’t great but are so common now as to be fairly easy to ignore. But, IMHO,here is the real harm. When...
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    steross reacted to GratefulPoke's post in the thread US continues to go backward... with Like Like.
    And people say the DNC is bad with talking points. The thing is, most of Kirks statements are on tape and I've watched them, in...
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