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Why I gave up my guns (NY bred metrosexual loses his nerve, throws in the towel on gun ownership)
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS ^ | Friday, January 11, 2013 | Patrick Blanchfield

Posted on 01/12/2013 2:06:42 PM PST by DogByte6RER

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To: FlingWingFlyer
For someone who claims to have a Ph.D, he sure doesn’t seem very bright.

The thought crossed my mind, that all this drivel spewed out of his mouth because he's afraid he can kiss his Ph.D. goodbye if he actually kills a guy who's in his house.

Lifestyle, not a "sudden awakening". He realized that if he shot a burglar, he'd be a pariah in the faculty lounge -- and in fact would be excluded from that club.

61 posted on 01/12/2013 2:54:22 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: DogByte6RER

Which one is Blanchfield?


62 posted on 01/12/2013 2:54:44 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: DogByte6RER

63 posted on 01/12/2013 2:55:12 PM PST by Perseverando (Gun control? It's really not about gun control is it? It's really about PEOPLE CONTROL!)
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To: DogByte6RER

Rather, which weasel is Blanchfield?


64 posted on 01/12/2013 2:55:42 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: The Cajun
Not to mention that he expressly says he only got one shell into the chamber.

Then he ejects multiple shells on the floor ...

He is a liberal idiot with a degree in literature ... writing fiction ...

65 posted on 01/12/2013 2:56:05 PM PST by dartuser ("If you are ... what you were ... then you're not.")
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“I CALL FICTION ON THIS!”

Then call or email the fiction writer:

Patrick Blanchfield
Phone: (917) 409-8461
pblanch@emory.edu


66 posted on 01/12/2013 2:56:26 PM PST by Stormdog (A rifle transforms one from subject to Citizen)
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To: DogByte6RER
Only in fantasy does keeping a gun in the home make you safer; the statistical reality is just the opposite.

Liar.

67 posted on 01/12/2013 2:56:35 PM PST by lowbridge (Joe Biden: "Look, the Taliban per se is not our enemy.")
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To: WilliamRobert

He doesn’t like destroying a criminals life. He’d rather destroy the working mans life by joining the Occupy Wall street terrorists and disrupting the working mans ability to commute to and from work for a whole full year. I heard commuting from Brooklyn to Manhattan was made impossibly by these subhuman trust fund bugs.

That’s something the communist propaganda machine posing as our MSM never mentions: The amount of people who lost their jobs because the Occupy Wall street terrorists made it impossible for them to get to work (which was all sanctioned by the way by the unconstitutionally elected thrice admitted foreign born President, Nancy Pelosi and Despot, I mean Mayor Mike Bloomberg. 32 oz sodas are banned but not terrorists)


68 posted on 01/12/2013 2:57:01 PM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Someday our schools we will teach the difference between "lose" and "loose")
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To: DogByte6RER
Thanks for a really funny story. The guy's account sounds like it's pulled from a Hollywood movie, along with the fear-induced nausea coupled with copious barfing.

I'm been on the receiving end of an attempted home invasion. I shouted at him and prepared to fillet him with a chef's knife if he got through the door. I felt zero nausea before, during or after the incident. The guy had a loaded shotgun in hand. He's either a drama queen or has the nerves of a mouse.

69 posted on 01/12/2013 2:57:28 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: DogByte6RER
Enough is enough. In 2008, Japan, which maintains strict gun regulations, saw 11 gun homicides; in that same year, America had over 12,000.

Venezuela (see other FR thread) has strict gun control, and they have a very high rate of murders; Mexico ditto, and look at them!

Japan is a stratified society in which the peasants were beaten down so hard, so long, that they've never formed a conception of "up".

70 posted on 01/12/2013 2:58:46 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: vbmoneyspender
Yeah... not a very good writer either. Like, what else does one vomit, but puke? And hot puke? A bit redundant that.

The next moment I was in the bathroom, vomiting over the floor and toilet. When I finally positioned my face over the stool, water from the bodet splashed my face. To make matters worse, the lid was up! Afterwards, I had to redo my eye-liner and base. Later, my girlfriend made me feel safe and protected. She never once asked when we would be married.
71 posted on 01/12/2013 2:58:46 PM PST by AD from SpringBay (We deserve the government we allow.)
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To: cripplecreek

What he doesn’t say is that most of the homicides are by criminals and they aren’t accidental


72 posted on 01/12/2013 2:59:24 PM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: DogByte6RER

“From the robust kick of firing a revolver to the emphatic, mechanical bursts of shouldering an assault rifle on full auto,”
Complete BS. He (she) is a fraud.


73 posted on 01/12/2013 3:01:46 PM PST by zagger
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To: DogByte6RER

Hmmm...I’ve pulled a gun with the possibility of shooting a human once in my life, over 30 years ago. It was a 6 shot 22, and there were 8 of them. Oddly enough, I didn’t fumble to load the gun. Oh, that’s right - it was already loaded during my hike. And when I returned and 8 guys moved to surround me, I actually felt quite calm as I pulled it out of the holster.

The 8 guys stopped trying to surround me. I went past them, got my keys out with my left hand, opened the car and drove off without ever putting my revolver down.

And no, I didn’t stop anywhere and puke.

Guess you can’t cure stupid, and you can’t cure a pathetic pansy wimp of wimpiness. I agree - that pathetic excuse for a man needed to get rid of guns. He isn’t worthy of owning a gun. He needs to get his purse and practice squealing “Rape me first!”


74 posted on 01/12/2013 3:02:59 PM PST by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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To: lentulusgracchus
Japan is a stratified society in which the peasants were beaten down so hard, so long, that they've never formed a conception of "up".

Japan might have only had 11 gun murders in 2008, but the total murder rate was 100x as large, if the 2009 murder rate of 1097 is any indication.

75 posted on 01/12/2013 3:05:13 PM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: DogByte6RER
(Article) I’m a New Yorker born-and-bred, and unlike the just under half of all Americans who keep guns in their homes, I didn’t grow up with firearms.

You can take the boy out of New York, but you can't flush the New York out of the boy. Bet you anything he still eats bagels and runs his mouth on Sarah Palin and Allen West over lunch.

Why is it people from out West don't have your problem, son?

No cultural acclimation, no tradition, reared in a gutless society of loudmouths and corner-office Napoleons. Some training would have helped, better still, military service in some Armpit. But he had nothing to fall back on when he saw the guy.

Lack of conviction, lack of preparation. People like him should wear dog collars and be denied the vote for basic incompetence.

76 posted on 01/12/2013 3:06:45 PM PST by lentulusgracchus
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar; Obadiah
press a small button outside the trigger guard to slide the bolt open.

I have an old 16 gauge pump and that's the only way to cycle it empty by pressing the side button.
If this crap story were true, it would be funny as heck watching the clown pumping away, emptying the shotgun.
You'd think he would stop at some point seeing a shell or two flying out, LOL.
This whole story seems humorous to me, but there are idiots who would take it seriously.

77 posted on 01/12/2013 3:07:51 PM PST by The Cajun (Sarah Palin, Mark Levin......Nuff said.)
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To: DogByte6RER

PLEASE tell us where we can get that Bolshevik poster!!!


78 posted on 01/12/2013 3:10:36 PM PST by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: AD from SpringBay

Excellent


79 posted on 01/12/2013 3:13:11 PM PST by Age of Reason
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To: elcid1970

Check Oleg’s post “Historical mind-benders: Pravda, Guns, Red Terror & America” at:

http://www.thepeoplescube.com/peoples-blog/historical-mind-benders-pravda-guns-red-terror-america-t10510.html


80 posted on 01/12/2013 3:13:42 PM PST by DogByte6RER ("Loose lips sink ships")
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