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More armed people would bring more impulsive shootings
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette ^ | 2/21/08 | FREDERICK J. ROKASKY

Posted on 02/21/2008 8:59:18 AM PST by relictele

In 1979 I carried a gun. I had a permit to do so. It was a 9 mm Browning automatic with 14 rounds in a clip. The reason I had a weapon was because I handled large sums of money, and my boss suggested that it might be a good idea. I carried my 9 mm every time I went out...

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Pennsylvania
KEYWORDS: banglist; campuscarry; concealedcarry; firearms; girlymen; guncontrol; guns; secondamendment
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To: relictele
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......Guns encourage the quick and impulsive......
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Nitwit! IF everybody was armed people would tend to be less "impulsive" because the "target" could shoot back.

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21 posted on 02/21/2008 9:10:33 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: relictele

“It was a 9 mm Browning automatic with 14 rounds in a clip.”

Arrest that felon! Automatic weapons are prohibited.

I’m growing weary of these talking heads, stuffed shirts and empty suits pontificating on concepts over which they have no command and in which they have little understanding.

In my view, gun control is: Solid stance, clear sight picture, control the breathing, and squeeze the trigger.

It’s in the tagline.


22 posted on 02/21/2008 9:10:54 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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To: VRWCmember

GMTA


23 posted on 02/21/2008 9:11:43 AM PST by RedRightReturn (Do you know how to catch wild pigs?)
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To: Antoninus

most of them don’t realize the dark powers that are manipulating them, though. They are do gooders and think that the lack of guns will be good. They are deceived by the darkness playing like the good guy in their minds. The fhu.com has a really great “be still” free download for those who would like to become free from the insanity that works through our minds. We are living in a matrix, it’s difficult to see lost in thoughts.


24 posted on 02/21/2008 9:11:44 AM PST by fabian
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To: relictele
Sarcasm aside it saddens me that this kind of ignorance and naivete can still exist.

Don't read the rest of the letters at the link, then. Pretty much all of them advocate disasterous socialist ideals of some kind or another.

25 posted on 02/21/2008 9:12:44 AM PST by LambSlave
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To: relictele
Funny... Browning doesn't make a 9mm pistol that uses a clip. All the ones I see listed use a magazine.

Also, EVERYWHERE carry laws have been loosened, "impulsive" shootings have dropped, not increased. The "blood in the streets" doom and gloom never happens. Same for road rage.

Speaking personally, I find that carrying a firearm makes me feel more confident and less apt to get angry over stupid stuff. Quite the opposite of the authors idiotic premise.

26 posted on 02/21/2008 9:12:47 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Pistolshot
Guess I better get counseling for all my firearms to get that 'impulsive' nature out of them.

I had to lock mine in a safe because they were going out drinking and fighting at night.

27 posted on 02/21/2008 9:12:48 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: MD_Willington_1976

Beat me to it. I could have saved myself the typing had I read further down the thread before posting. ;-)


28 posted on 02/21/2008 9:13:42 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: TheKidster

Then here’s another one from Fred you might enjoy!

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07342/840174-35.stm


29 posted on 02/21/2008 9:13:59 AM PST by relictele (Liberal: one who walks away from a TSA queue still convinced government can solve problems.)
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To: relictele
More armed people would bring more impulsive shootings.

In fact, it doesn't. In state after state that has passed concealed carry laws, the violent crime rate went down.

How do the leftists respond when such evidence refutes their cherished beliefs?

Why, they lie about it...

30 posted on 02/21/2008 9:14:33 AM PST by Interesting Times (ABCNNBCBS -- yesterday's news.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
" It was a 9 mm Browning automatic with 14 rounds in a clip

In 1979? This is code for "I am a jagoff who watched Serpico too many times."

Supported by the fact that he never bothered to learn the difference in a "clip" and a "magazine".

I hope the paper that published this gets a few rebuttals to this lackey of the silky pony...

31 posted on 02/21/2008 9:14:53 AM PST by OKSooner
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To: Tijeras_Slim
My problem is they keep fighting with each other in the safe, and it keeps me awake at night.

So I had to threaten them with taking away their ammo for a week. That settled them down.

32 posted on 02/21/2008 9:15:03 AM PST by Pistolshot (Remember, no matter how bad your life is, someone is watching and enjoying your suffering.)
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To: LambSlave
Don't read the rest of the letters at the link, then. Pretty much all of them advocate disasterous socialist ideals of some kind or another.

That's the P-G for you. Capitalism built Pittsburgh but these people somehow believe socialism will revive it.

33 posted on 02/21/2008 9:15:28 AM PST by relictele (Liberal: one who walks away from a TSA queue still convinced government can solve problems.)
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To: MD_Willington_1976
I have a Winchester 22 automatic but it doesn’t have a clip or a magazine.
34 posted on 02/21/2008 9:15:50 AM PST by Beagle8U (FreeRepublic -- One stop shopping ....... Its the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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To: Dead Corpse

sorry.. lol

The only firearm I had with “clips” was an Enfield .303, and that used Stripper Clips !!


35 posted on 02/21/2008 9:16:17 AM PST by MD_Willington_1976
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To: relictele

From the article: “When the year ended I sold the gun back to the gun shop I bought it from, for what I paid for it. I was glad it was gone.”

Fred...you did the right thing. We are all safer by your actions. Just be hopeful that someone without your confused sense of morality is around to help you out when the fecal matter comes in direct contact with the rotating air current generator.

Lock and Load.


36 posted on 02/21/2008 9:16:45 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion)
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To: Beagle8U

Nomenclatures

Early on, self loading rifles and pistols were called “automatics”

and most people understood they reloaded automatically, but were not machine guns

Now people are so ignorant that they figure “automatic” is a machine gun that can empty itself with one trigger pull...


37 posted on 02/21/2008 9:18:07 AM PST by MD_Willington_1976
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To: relictele

“It was a 9 mm Browning automatic with 14 rounds in a clip.”

No, it wasn’t.


38 posted on 02/21/2008 9:18:20 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (Blessed be the LORD my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight.)
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To: relictele

Those who beat their swords into plow shears will plow for those who do not!
Famous quote


39 posted on 02/21/2008 9:18:37 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: relictele

Man alive, that would cause waves or orgasmic pleasure all through the congress if they were to read that. I bet some of the elder statemen would absolutely die in a state of ecstatic euphoria.

Fred is a complete idiot in the same vein as the nazi youth!
I am literally more afraid of people like him than murderers and terrorists.


40 posted on 02/21/2008 9:18:44 AM PST by TheKidster (you can only trust government to grow, consolidate power and infringe upon your liberties.)
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