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Shining a light on the gun show
Las Vegas Sun ^ | 07 sept2015 | Stacy J. Willis

Posted on 09/07/2015 6:01:30 AM PDT by rellimpank

I’m standing in the flea market of firepower, a gun show at Cashman Center, listening to a salesman pitch the value of a solar-powered flashlight. “But how do you make it work?” I ask, and by “work,” I don’t mean create a beam of light. I’m already sold on that. I mean how do I make it do its semi-lethal thing, like stun someone with massive volts of electricity, or emit a stream of burning pepper spray, or turn into an easy-grip dagger—you know, defend me? “Oh no,” he says. “This doesn’t do any of that. But it does charge your cell phone with its stored-up energy.”

I like that. In fact, it’s probably one of the few items at the Crossroads of the West Gun Show I’d really use. But somehow it’s not getting much attention here, where hundreds of people—all sorts of people—are milling around tables stacked high with deadly device

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: banglist; rkba

1 posted on 09/07/2015 6:01:30 AM PDT by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank
...maybe I’m just better off with a solar-powered flashlight that also charges my cell phone, which calls 911.

Truer words were never written by an idiot.

In fact, just get your liberal dumb ass out of the gun show and find a man that can tolerate you enough to protect you.

You then won't need the gun, the laser sight or the flashlight.

Why can these dumb asses not just go about their business of writing about basket weaving or some such crap and quit trying to change the American landscape on guns?

They fail miserably and look really stupid doing it.

2 posted on 09/07/2015 6:09:54 AM PDT by OldSmaj (obama is a worthless mohametan. Impeach his ass now!)
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To: rellimpank

Okay, so I did read the screed this assclown wrote. What an idiot. Sadly, she is correct, despite her stupidity, she is NOT barred from owning a gun. She says hers is safely locked in the vault under her bed. Good luck with that sweetpea, you’re gonna need it.


3 posted on 09/07/2015 6:18:48 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rellimpank

The reporter needs to purchase a panty unwadder instead of a weapon.


4 posted on 09/07/2015 6:20:29 AM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Obama - "I will stand with the Muslims")
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To: rellimpank

“Or maybe I’m just better off with a solar-powered flashlight that also charges my cell phone, which calls 911.”

Yes Stacy you would be.


5 posted on 09/07/2015 6:25:44 AM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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To: rktman

-—I’d have done the “barf alert” but thought the “so stupid to be funny” might have run over the limit for characters in the title-—


6 posted on 09/07/2015 6:32:29 AM PDT by rellimpank (--don't believe anything the media or government says about firearms or explosives--)
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” Shoppers are pushing babies in strollers; they’re sipping Red Bulls; they’re wearing “Armed & Fabulous” T-shirts. They’re men, women, young, old, various races—some carrying military-style boxes of newly purchased ammo, others handling rifles or brass knuckles or Samurai swords. “

In other words, Free non sissified Americans.

7 posted on 09/07/2015 6:47:27 AM PDT by BigCinBigD (...Was that okay?)
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To: rellimpank

It was, as usual, one of those “intrepid investigative reporter finds actual guns for sale at gun show” kinda things. More of a face/palm moment. Do they actually pay this idiot? Just one more reason to NOT subscribe to any lame stream dinosaur newspaper. Maybe her next report will uncover the fact that most cars out there use “actual gasoline”.


8 posted on 09/07/2015 6:47:39 AM PDT by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: rellimpank

Just another fool that wakes up every morning and looks in the mirror and says to herself, “I’m so smart, I think I’ll share some of that with the lower caste of people today.”

Must be terrible to be so smart and come across as so stupid.

Her grave marker will be, When seconds counted the police were only minutes away. Oops!


9 posted on 09/07/2015 7:03:29 AM PDT by JayAr36 (Old enough to remember when America was a moral and free country.)
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To: rellimpank
Surprised ol' Stace didn't get lost, the Crossroads is a huge gun show.
10 posted on 09/07/2015 7:25:04 AM PDT by W. (Get a rope. Now.)
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To: mad_as_he$$

“Or maybe I’m just better off with a solar-powered flashlight that also charges my cell phone, which calls 911.”

Mr. Bad Guy, wait till the sun comes up to charge my phone so I can call 911,

or

wait till I get the trigger lock off my gun?

/s/s/s/s/s


11 posted on 09/07/2015 8:03:11 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Using 4th keyboard due to wearing out the "/" and "s" on the previous 3)
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To: rellimpank
Stacy J. Willis spews and:


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12 posted on 09/07/2015 8:05:12 AM PDT by Col Freeper (FR: A smorgasbord of Conservative Mindfood - dig in and enjoy it!)
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To: rellimpank; rktman; mad_as_he$$; BigCinBigD; JayAr36

I found this comment at the end of the article interesting. Could it be that possibility we have the Second Amendment because there is an inherent right of self defense that takes precedent over any form of government?

“I don’t carry a gun to kill people; I carry a gun to keep from being killed.”

“I don’t carry a gun because I’m evil; I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the World.”

“I don’t carry a gun because I hate the government; I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.”

“I don’t carry a gun because I’m angry; I carry a gun so that I don’t have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.”

“I don’t carry a gun because I want to shoot someone; I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.”

“I don’t carry a gun to make me feel like a man; I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.”

“I don’t carry a gun because I feel inadequate; I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.”

“I don’t carry a gun because I love it; I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.”

“Police protection is an oxymoron: Free citizens must protect themselves because police do not protect you from crime; they just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.”

“Personally, I carry a gun because I’m too young to die and too old to take a whoopin’.”


13 posted on 09/07/2015 8:35:31 AM PDT by Retain Mike
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To: Retain Mike

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14 posted on 09/07/2015 8:45:22 AM PDT by duffee (No money to the Mississippi Republican Party as long as joe nosef is chairman)
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To: rellimpank

Willis, the granddaughter of a moonshiner and a preacher, was lured to Las Vegas 12 years ago to write about religion. - See more at: http://vegasseven.com/author/stacy/#sthash.aajj9Um8.dpuf

15 posted on 09/07/2015 9:08:15 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: mad_as_he$$

Brittany Zimmerman called 911. Police got there......48 minutes later. By then she was dead.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/16/grace.coldcase.zimmerman/


16 posted on 09/07/2015 10:59:47 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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Brittany Zimmerman called 911. Police got there......48 minutes later. By then she was dead.

http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/12/16/grace.coldcase.zimmerman/


17 posted on 09/07/2015 11:04:43 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA (war is peace, freedom is slavery, ignorance is strength, obama loves America)
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To: Red in Blue PA

Yes. The cops are only there to do the paperwork.


18 posted on 09/07/2015 2:47:44 PM PDT by mad_as_he$$ (Section 20.)
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