# Will this election also be decided by the perverse American fetish for GUNS?

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**Created:** [September 15, 2019, 9:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-election-also-be-decided-by-the-perverse-american-fetish-for-guns/840259 "2019-09-15T09:01:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 17, 2019, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-election-also-be-decided-by-the-perverse-american-fetish-for-guns/840259/131 "2019-09-17T05:53:59Z")

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> [@Observations of the 3rd Democratic Debate](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/observations-of-the-3rd-democratic-debate/840136/193):
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> Darn right. We need to go back to bows and arrows for hunting. No crossbows or them newfangled compound bows either. Longbows forever!:dubious:

Why not use heat-seeking missiles, if you can afford them? Sure they’d mess up the corpse, but you weren’t going to eat the meat anyway.

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