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Letter of the day: European visitor laments the American gun culture
StarTribune.com ^ | 7/29/10 | Paddy Carpenter

Posted on 07/30/2010 3:33:16 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

What’s an Anglo-Irishman?
Oh, yea don’t let the door hit you on the way out.


41 posted on 07/30/2010 3:57:59 PM PDT by svcw (Real faith is always increased by opposition, false confidence is damaged & discouraged by it)
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To: Chode

ROTFL!!

WTG, Chode!! LOL!


42 posted on 07/30/2010 3:59:07 PM PDT by Monkey Face (Welcome home to my awesome army grandson!! Prayers and yellow ribbons for Anoreth of CG fame!)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Paddy...no wonder you people were colonized by wankers.


43 posted on 07/30/2010 4:01:01 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Have fun in France! (snicker)


44 posted on 07/30/2010 4:01:30 PM PDT by derekr44
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To: Tijeras_Slim

YES IT DOES

shame those who put down gun laws have no clue what they’re on about.

My SIG is sitting there , it is not killing anyone so this argument about guns kill just doesn’t cut it.

Ironic paddy has a problem with gun laws bu how about the illegal guns terrorists have in his own country


45 posted on 07/30/2010 4:02:32 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
In most cases they are legally held and ready to carry out their purpose: to kill or to maim.

Yeah, we do it for fun. Now ya wanna tell me again how tough soccer players are?
46 posted on 07/30/2010 4:02:34 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: cripplecreek

paddy doesn’t like it then let him piss off to his place were illegal guns are in the hands of terrorists


47 posted on 07/30/2010 4:03:44 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: Nateman
The Swiss are required to have automatic weapons. They have not had to fight a war in 500 years.

Then why was an uninvited Russian army wandering around in Switzerland in 1799? I guess if you don't actually fight the Russians it doesn't count as a war.

http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/c_suvorov.html

48 posted on 07/30/2010 4:03:50 PM PDT by Cheburashka (Stephen Decatur: You want barrels of gunpowder as tribute, you must expect cannonballs with it.)
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To: cripplecreek

paddy agrees with Hitler on guns but saying that there were many Irish which supported him against the allies anyway


49 posted on 07/30/2010 4:05:14 PM PDT by manc (WILL OBAMA EVER GO TO CHURCH ON A SUNDAY OR WILL HE LET THE MEDIA/THE LEFT BE FOOLED FOR EVER)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

“We return to our home in France mystified by the aberration in your legal system.....”

I don’t understand why our legal system seems so aberrant, when France’s neighbor, Switzerland, has more gun owners per capita than the US.


50 posted on 07/30/2010 4:05:36 PM PDT by haroldeveryman
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

NO you friggen weenie!

If you enjoy your permanent victim status and feel no need to protect yourself from the tyranny regularly imposed in Europe, please keep it to yourself.


51 posted on 07/30/2010 4:06:49 PM PDT by G Larry (Democrats: expediting the Destruction of America, before they lose power...)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Naw, Paddy, we like it like this. Go back to where the rulers rule the citizens. We don’t allow that here, that’s why it is SO DIFFERENT. In a lovely way.


52 posted on 07/30/2010 4:13:09 PM PDT by bboop (We don't need no stinkin' VAT)
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To: haroldeveryman

I’ve only met a few Swiss but I’ve liked every single one I’ve met almost immediately. They’ve all been amazingly friendly people with devious smiles and a prank in mind.

My kind of people.


53 posted on 07/30/2010 4:15:51 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
"In accordance with Minnesota law, Mall of America bans guns in these premises."

The luck o' the Irish holds. You visited the Mall on a day that no madman showed up. In that unfortunate circumstance, I'm sure you'd kiss the arse of anyone that ignored the sign and saved yours with a big, mean gun.

54 posted on 07/30/2010 4:19:45 PM PDT by gundog (Why is it that useful idiots remain idiots long after they've exhausted their usefulness?)
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To: West Texas Chuck

Yep, going to the range tomorrow with my stepson and three other friends. They just got new toys and need some help breaking them in.


55 posted on 07/30/2010 4:36:40 PM PDT by Zippo44 (Liberal: another word for poltroon.)
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To: zzeeman
Why does that freak from france think that any one here cares what he has to say? ....

John f'n Kerry probably does and maybe a few "progressive" numbskull euro-weenie wannabes...*shrug*

56 posted on 07/30/2010 4:43:52 PM PDT by and so? (If it angers you, a sarcasm or irony tag after everything I post should be assumed)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

So can this moron tell us how many of those 30 killed with guns in Minneapolis were killed with guns held by LEGAL bearers?

My money is on “none”.


57 posted on 07/30/2010 4:44:55 PM PDT by Blue Collar Christian (A "tea bagger"? Say it to my face. ><BCC>)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

He’s Irish and living in France. Must be retarded. Accounts for his position on this bit.


58 posted on 07/30/2010 4:46:30 PM PDT by RinaseaofDs
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Oh no, a bree eating Irishman. Saints preserve us.

Brother are you forgetting your own National Anthem?

We’ll sing a song, a soldier’s song,
With cheering rousing chorus,
As round our blazing fires we throng,
The starry heavens o’er us;
Impatient for the coming fight,
And as we wait the morning’s light,
Here in the silence of the night,
We’ll chant a soldier’s song.

Chorus:
Soldiers are we
whose lives are pledged to Ireland;
Some have come
from a land beyond the wave.
Sworn to be free,
No more our ancient sire land
Shall shelter the despot or the slave.
Tonight we man the gap of danger
In Erin’s cause, come woe or weal
‘Mid cannons’ roar and rifles peal,
We’ll chant a soldier’s song.

In valley green, on towering crag,
Our fathers fought before us,
And conquered ‘neath the same old flag
That’s proudly floating o’er us.
We’re children of a fighting race,
That never yet has known disgrace,
And as we march, the foe to face,
We’ll chant a soldier’s song.

Chorus

Sons of the Gael! Men of the Pale!
The long watched day is breaking;
The serried ranks of Inisfail
Shall set the Tyrant quaking.
Our camp fires now are burning low;
See in the east a silv’ry glow,
Out yonder waits the Saxon foe,
So chant a soldier’s song.
Chorus


59 posted on 07/30/2010 4:47:48 PM PDT by Cap'n Crunch (Rush Limbaugh, the Winston Churchill of our time)
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To: Blue Collar Christian

That would be correct.....


60 posted on 07/30/2010 4:47:48 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Molon Labe.)
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