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I Wanted to Be a Good Mom. So I Got a Gun
NY Times ^ | 03-05-2018 | BETHANY MANDEL

Posted on 03/05/2018 6:01:04 AM PST by NRx

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To: WayneS

Hmmmmm. Sounds a little like a Stephen King novel, doesn’t it. Nice story - would make a great movie...


21 posted on 03/05/2018 7:09:34 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: NRx

Have said this before - if you love kids you love guns - if you hate kids you hate guns. Anyone thinking or believing otherwise is bit unbalanced.


22 posted on 03/05/2018 7:16:53 AM PST by mulligan (The)
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To: rktman

My sentiments exactly.


23 posted on 03/05/2018 7:25:37 AM PST by 60Gunner (The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato)
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To: Travis McGee
It’s not my place to run the train
The whistle I can't blow.

It's not my place to say how far
The train's allowed to go.

It's not my place to shoot off steam
Nor even clang the bell.

But let the damn thing jump the track
And see who catches hell.


24 posted on 03/05/2018 7:34:11 AM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion (Presses can be 'associated,' or presses can be independent. Demand independent presses.)
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To: richardtavor
OK, sport - it appears that you are expressing skepticism.

Here's my story:

I was about 12 years old - very similar situation, except there was a porch on the back of our split level house, so the fellow just walked right up and started jimmying my bedroom window at about 2 a.m.

I managed to slip out of bed and ease towards the door in my best Marine belly crawl - until I got to the top of the stairs and my nerve broke - I ran the rest of the way yelling "Daddy! Daddy! there's a man on the back porch!"

Daddy snatched up his old Parker double barrel and ran out the side door in time to see Mr. Burglar take a flying leap from the high end of the porch. He got him with the choke barrel in mid-air and the scatter barrel when he hit the ground. He screamed so loud you could have heard him in DeKalb County and went running off into the dark and rainy night.

Dad got to thinking he might bleed out or break his neck falling off one of the old farm terraces in the side yard . . . so he went out looking for him. Never found him, but did find a horse running loose . . . but that's another story.

Atlanta's finest did show up after about 45 minutes (after my mom's panicked call of "shots fired - man down" . . . hey, he was down very temporarily . . . ) All he could offer was to take a report and volunteer that Mr. Burglar would tell all his friends and we probably wouldn't need to worry about any future visits from anybody . . . we never did . . .

25 posted on 03/05/2018 7:35:13 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: moovova
...But it is a middle ground for gun-rights supporters and gun-control activists to meet.”

Remember, compromising with bad policy is like adding sewage to your drinking water. And the only things in the middle of the road are yellow stripes and road kill.

26 posted on 03/05/2018 7:35:24 AM PST by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW! Build the Wall Faster! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH.)
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To: Travis McGee

When the left and media pull the “gun control for the chilluns” script out of the top drawer, the script must be followed, facts be damned.


27 posted on 03/05/2018 7:36:17 AM PST by Dr.Deth
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To: richardtavor
Seriously, exciting events stick in your memory even when you are very small.

My first memory is my (unsuccessful) attempt to run away from home at around age 2. My second is missing my 3rd birthday party because I had the chicken pox . . . :-(

28 posted on 03/05/2018 7:36:41 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ecce Crucem Domini, fugite partes adversae. Vicit Leo de Tribu Iuda, Radix David, Alleluia!)
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To: AnAmericanMother

I also live about 45 minutes away from police help, so I understand the dilemma. WE are 911 at our farm and are always armed. I pity the person who wants to try us out. However, the story was so well written that I chuckled..not at the content, but at the style-very literary. Trust me, I know what a person has to do to defend themselves and their loved ones. It wasn’t a criticism, but an acknowledgement of a well written story. I am sorry if it offended or took away the validity of it.


29 posted on 03/05/2018 7:43:21 AM PST by richardtavor
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To: JimRed

Great point.


30 posted on 03/05/2018 7:44:37 AM PST by moovova
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To: NRx

I gotta give the NYT rare credit.

This is the second pro-gun article I’ve read coming out of their paper.


31 posted on 03/05/2018 7:53:19 AM PST by Lazamataz (What America needs is more Hogg control.)
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To: moovova; Bodega

We have many prohibited possessors already.

The cure is not to attempt to stop them at the aquisition side, which clearly does not work; rather to enforce the prohibition of possession.

Actually dangerous, violent individuals are a very small percentage of the population.

The police need to actively monitor them and make sure they are unarmed, as is currently required by law.

We should also have a well defined method for people to have their rights restored. The prohibited possessor categories are generally too large. Most infractions are ignored.

David Kennedy has done great work on this.


32 posted on 03/05/2018 10:21:14 AM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: NRx
I do not carry a pistol so I can impose my will on someone else. I carry a pistol so someone else cannot impose their will on me. Lynn Givens
33 posted on 03/05/2018 11:11:28 AM PST by MosesKnows (Love Many, Trust Few, and Always Paddle Your Own Canoe)
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To: marktwain

Absolutely agree.

As gun owners, I feel like we’re locked in the death grip of a boa constrictor. Every slight lessening of our resistance leads to a further constriction by the snake. There is no give to the snake’s ever-tightening grip. Its desire is to eventually choke the life out of us.


34 posted on 03/05/2018 12:34:50 PM PST by moovova
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To: moovova

In Arizona, and in a significant number of Second Amendment friendly states, we have poked the snake with bayonets, and it has loosened its grip.

It has been weakened. Another textualist, originalist justice on the supreme court could forge the tool to kill the snake.


35 posted on 03/05/2018 12:54:32 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Bodega

When I was a kid, all the weapons were loaded with one in the chamber. And we had lots of them. No one shot themselves or anyone else.

Maybe living in the country is different than city folks are used to...


36 posted on 03/05/2018 1:07:58 PM PST by packrat35 (Pelosi is only on loan to the world from Satan. Hopefully he will soon want his baby killer back)
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To: Travis McGee

That captures the essence of the situation, Matt!

Great meme!


37 posted on 03/05/2018 2:44:42 PM PST by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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To: MosesKnows

PRECISELY SO!


38 posted on 03/05/2018 2:58:02 PM PST by Taxman (Replace the income tax with the FAIRtax and abolish the IRS!)
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