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    Nearly 3,500 Facebook users belong to Colorado Gun Trader, a group on the social media site that helps its members buy, sell and trade guns.

    Is that legal? Yes. Do gun-control advocates want it that way? No.

    Two groups are pushing Facebook to crack down on gun sales on the site. And while Facebook doesn’t technically sell guns -- people can’t enter their credit card information on the site to buy one -- it can be used to put gun enthusiasts in touch with one another.

    Those connections are a little too much for Mayors Against Illegal Guns. The group, co-founded by former New York mayor Michael Bloomberg, is working with another group called Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense in America to increase pressure on Facebook. The groups are also taking aim at Instagram, the photo-sharing site owned by Facebook.

    "Anybody can go to Facebook and Instagram and buy a gun online, and we’re urging Facebook to clamp down. We’re asking them to review their policies. They facilitate the sale of guns in the U.S.," said Erica Soto Lamb, a spokeswoman for Mayors Against Illegal Guns, according to VentureBeat.
    "Hey! Stop that perfectly legal activity from going on!"

    Someone let me know when Moms Demand Action decides that there needs to be a crackdown on cork boards and thumbtacks. In the meantime, I'm going to pressure facebook to crack down on Moms Demand Action's use of free speech on their facebook page....
    It's been ten years since that lonely day I left you
    In the morning rain, smoking gun in hand
    Ten lonely years but how my heart, it still remembers
    Pray for me, momma, I'm a gypsy now

  • #2
    Originally posted by Adam View Post
    "Hey! Stop that perfectly legal activity from going on!"

    Someone let me know when Moms Demand Action decides that there needs to be a crackdown on cork boards and thumbtacks. In the meantime, I'm going to pressure facebook to crack down on Moms Demand Action's use of free speech on their facebook page....
    Have these idiots never seen…

    guns international or gun broker
    If it pays, it stays

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    • #3
      "Anybody can go to Facebook and Instagram and buy a gun online..."

      That's utter bullshit. The transaction takes place in person. These people know they are on the losing side so they have to make up lies.
      "Faith is nothing but a firm assent of the mind : which, if it be regulated, as is our duty, cannot be afforded to anything but upon good reason, and so cannot be opposite to it."
      -John Locke

      "It's all been melded together into one giant, authoritarian, leftist scream."
      -Newman

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      • #4
        Everyone here should join that user group.
        The year's at the spring
        And day's at the morn;
        Morning's at seven;
        The hill-side's dew-pearled;
        The lark's on the wing;
        The snail's on the thorn:
        God's in his heaven—
        All's right with the world!

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        • #5
          Originally posted by Novaheart View Post
          Everyone here should join that user group.
          Why?
          “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

          ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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          • #6
            Originally posted by Billy Jingo View Post
            Why?
            The year's at the spring
            And day's at the morn;
            Morning's at seven;
            The hill-side's dew-pearled;
            The lark's on the wing;
            The snail's on the thorn:
            God's in his heaven—
            All's right with the world!

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            • #7
              Meh. I prefer The Clash.
              “Thus it is that no cruelty whatsoever passes by without impact. Thus it is that we always pay dearly for chasing after what is cheap.”

              ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956

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