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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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TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; bostonbombing; guncontrol; guns; revelation; secondamendment
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To: central_va

Eggs ackley. Now, put a tool in every room so when the front door bursts open no matter where you are in your home you have the tools at hand not needing to run for them inorder to fix the problem.


41 posted on 04/23/2013 10:44:52 AM PDT by MHGinTN (Being deceived can be cured.)
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To: muawiyah

did she have a license to have those children? (/s)


42 posted on 04/23/2013 10:48:00 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: bushbuddy

Actually, Bill Bennett is the one who said, “Neocons are liberals who’ve been mugged by reality...”


43 posted on 04/23/2013 10:50:22 AM PDT by Boonie
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To: MHGinTN
Nothing comes with 200 feet of the main central_va compound building without me knowing.

More than one...

44 posted on 04/23/2013 10:50:42 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: PowderMonkey

no,

it is going to be a statement.

a stement of poersonal empowerment.

it will be a physical medium to communicate an idea.

The medium is the message.


45 posted on 04/23/2013 11:15:15 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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