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How I Evolved on Guns During the #BostonPoliceScanner Manhunt
PJ Media ^ | 4/22/2013 | Paula Bolyard

Posted on 04/23/2013 8:10:55 AM PDT by rktman

In the wee hours of Friday morning, April 19th, I evolved on guns.

First, a confession: I’ve never owned a gun. I never wanted one in my home and, like a lot of moms, I wanted to raise non-violent children and thought keeping guns out of our home was one way to do that. When my kids were young, I didn’t want them to play with toy guns — in fact, I was rather insistent about it. Eventually, I realized that little boys will make guns out of just about anything — bananas, sticks, the dog’s paw, their fingers — nothing is safe from their imaginative minds. So I compromised and allowed squirt guns and non-gun-looking Nerf guns, but nothing that resembled a “real” gun.

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KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bostonbombing; guncontrol; guns; revelation; secondamendment
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Author’s bio: Paula Bolyard

Paula first learned about the power of online activism in 2004 when she helped organize a response to an Ohio newspaper’s week-long series associating homeschoolers with murderers and child molesters. An unapologetic Christian and Constitutional conservative and now “retired” from homeschooling, Paula lives in N.E. Ohio with her husband, younger son, three dogs, two parrots, and a ferret. Her elder son is a junior at Hillsdale College.


21 posted on 04/23/2013 8:55:19 AM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: rktman
Then, too, 90% of high capacity pressure cookers are never registered ~ and who in this country knows if one of them is missing and in the hands of dangerous islamofascist terrorists or 90% of their running dog lackeys in the media.

This world is too dangerous for leftwingtards ~ they should be encouraged to 'check out' as soon as possible and leave the rest of us alone.

22 posted on 04/23/2013 8:56:06 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

I read that Williams and Sonoma pulled all the pressure cookers off their shelves in MA yesterday. Really? Really?


23 posted on 04/23/2013 9:01:14 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: MeganC

It is an absolutely irrefutable improbabililty that your statistics are deterministically juxtaposed in opposition to nondeterministic empiracle data that uncategorically makes the counter-point with minimal correlation. :^)


24 posted on 04/23/2013 9:03:48 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: rktman
I realized at that moment that the police cannot protect me from the Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs of the world.

That is right. Not even with 3,000 cops within a half mile of your house.

I realized right then that if I were holed up in my house while a cold-blooded terrorist roamed my neighborhood, I wouldn’t want to be a sitting duck with only a deadbolt lock between me and an armed intruder. There are not enough police and they cannot come to my rescue quickly enough.

Once the bad guy, terrorist or otherwise, is in your house he's not likely to let you make a phone call. Feinstein is an idiot ... in the literal sense of the word.

25 posted on 04/23/2013 9:04:32 AM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: Daffynition
I realized at that moment that the police cannot protect me from the Dzhokhar Tsarnaevs of the world.

Welcome to adulthood. Finally...?

26 posted on 04/23/2013 9:07:13 AM PDT by 101stAirborneVet
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To: rktman
I read that Williams and Sonoma pulled all the pressure cookers off their shelves in MA yesterday. Really? Really?

Eat your meat raw or you can't have any pudding!

27 posted on 04/23/2013 9:09:01 AM PDT by TigersEye (If babies had guns they wouldn't be aborted)
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To: GladesGuru

A Saiga12 is too heavy for most ladies... After trying several things including the Saiga12 the wife settled on a Mossy .410 pump with Winchester’s self defense loads and a Sig P232SS .380. I would rather see a lessor hit than a flinch and miss with a heavier round.


28 posted on 04/23/2013 9:14:13 AM PDT by El Laton Caliente (NRA Life Member & www.Gunsnet.net Moderator)
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To: rktman

To me having a gun in my house is like having a fire extinguisher and a smoke detector. Just for emergencies, not something I really think about much. Just another tool in the tool box.


29 posted on 04/23/2013 9:15:40 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: 101stAirborneVet

Maybe, maybe not. She may be using a Conservative mantle as a meal ticket. I have no way of knowing, which is why I remain skeptical.

Yet, having her kid at Hillsdale is a good sign. Yet, raising two boys to be metrosexuals, is on balance, not so encouraging.


30 posted on 04/23/2013 9:16:57 AM PDT by Daffynition (Stand Your Ground)
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To: central_va

Gun singular? LOL!


31 posted on 04/23/2013 9:17:13 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: rktman
I can believe it ~ after all, what else are people there in Massachusetts to use as a defensive weapon outside of ballbats soaked in motor oil for 25 years and pressure cookers packed with black powder scraped from fireworks?

Remember, nothing beats a homemade claymore for keeping kids off your lawn!

32 posted on 04/23/2013 9:31:14 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: muawiyah

Yeah, about 30 feet off the lawn.


33 posted on 04/23/2013 9:38:15 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: muawiyah
Remember, nothing beats a homemade claymore for keeping kids off your lawn!

equals jail time for possession

Command detonated scale model = legal

34 posted on 04/23/2013 9:51:58 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: rktman
Eventually, I realized that little boys will make guns out of just about anything — bananas, sticks, the dog’s paw, their fingers — nothing is safe from their imaginative minds.

Including pop-tarts that fail to be chewed or bitten into form of a mountain, but end up looking "like" a gun.

Got the kid in a jam. Had a crummy result. Kicked out of school. Teachers and principal afraid mother's milk will undoubtedly & inevitably lead to heroin abuse. Something must be done.

I know! Let's drug them into passivity, to keep them from acting like little boys. I should know...I raised two wild little indians. Fighting and making noise, always at odds with each other, throwing a ball towards the house, breaking a window even after I told 'em over and over "please don't do that. You'll break a window eventually". It's just not natural, i tell ya'...

I mean, me and my own "little brother" never acted like that when we were little. The neighborhood kids wouldn't bundle up in multiple layers of clothing in the middle of summer chasing each other around shooting Daisy bb guns at each other. Never happened. All 20 or so reported incidents of that behavior. Nope. No fire crackers and bottle rockets either. We DID NOT fashion a mortar tube out a pipe with mud plugging one end, and eventually, after a few rounds of ranging fire, score a hit on a neighborhood dog that had bitten several of us, with a couple requiring more than a few stitches to sew us back up. Nope. That's not the sort of thing normal little boys would experiment with. There were no mini-bikes and homemade go-carts using small 3 to 5 horsepower side-shaft Briggs & Stratton or Tecumseh engines either. No playing football in the street. Those left over, colorful remnants strewn here and there suggesting there may have been some serious water-balloon raids having taken place? Those little things must have blown in from the next town over...

Above all, we were all very quiet. Only played tea party with tiny cups and saucers. Nobody later went to Vietnam. Everybody who did came back alive.

35 posted on 04/23/2013 9:53:39 AM PDT by BlueDragon (drinking tea leads to right wing racism. gospel according to chrissy the sissy matthews)
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To: rktman

Whatever, Ms. Bolyard. There’s more to “seeing the light” than just buying a gun. A good deal more. For far too many people in the next few weeks, getting a gun is going to be like getting a tattoo: a permanent reminder of a temporary feeling.


36 posted on 04/23/2013 10:07:46 AM PDT by PowderMonkey (WILL WORK FOR AMMO)
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To: rktman

I just went from no guns in the house to a Springfield 9mm XD subcompact and a Ruger sr-22 for my wife and daughter. Me and my son will use the 9mm but the girls will train and shoot both as well.
It’s amazing the change I’ve had with gun ownership lately. Obama seems to be a great gun salesman along with these effing terrorists. I will not sit in my home without protection should there be a manhunt in our neighborhood.


37 posted on 04/23/2013 10:21:15 AM PDT by oust the louse (You need your parents signature to go on a school field trip but not to get an abortion.)
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To: BlueDragon

Agreed. We NEVER did any of those things either. Just placid youngsters chewing on a piece of grass and gazing at the sky. LOL!


38 posted on 04/23/2013 10:35:20 AM PDT by rktman (BACKGROUND CHECKS? YOU FIRST MR. PRESIDENT!(not that we'd get the truth!))
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To: rktman

I never could actually sleep with a fishing line tied around one toe. Tried it, but keep thinking about giant catfish, and what if.


39 posted on 04/23/2013 10:38:08 AM PDT by BlueDragon (drinking tea leads to right wing racism. gospel according to chrissy the sissy matthews)
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To: rktman
Gun singular? LOL!

Well maybe more than one....

40 posted on 04/23/2013 10:38:18 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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