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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
FREDERICK J. ROKASKY Banksville

It's a good thing this dufus doesn't carry any longer

121 posted on 02/21/2008 11:57:58 AM PST by paul51 (11 September 2001 - Never forget)
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To: relictele
Last sentence...

I would suggest that all guns be made as one shot and to reload would take perhaps two minutes. As for hunters if they can't kill an animal with one shot, they are no hunters.

Forget the "clips" vs. "magazines" brouhaha. That's a self-imposed smokescreen.

This guy is a vicious antigunner and is completely against the private use and ownership of firearms. Period. He just throws that sop in about a "single shot" at the end to pretend he knows or cares anything about our civil rights. He doesn't.

He's pro-criminal and pro-tyranny.

122 posted on 02/21/2008 12:01:50 PM PST by Gritty (To prevent mass shootings we must ratchet down the firepower available to civilians-Brady Campaign)
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To: relictele

Didn’t even read the article cuz...

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

Anyone who knows a lick about 9mm, knows it ain’t a clip FOOL! Its a magazine!


123 posted on 02/21/2008 12:03:47 PM PST by mr_hammer (Checking the breeze and barking at things that go bump in the night...stupid dog?)
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To: mr_hammer

And its a 13 round mag...


124 posted on 02/21/2008 12:05:03 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: Tijeras_Slim
Yeah, I know when the HP was developed. It was popularized by Serpico, sorta in the same fashion of the Model 29 by Dirty Harry. Except Frank was a real cop.

Oh, that's different.

"Never mind."

Slap me silly and call me stupid. I knew about the Model 29, and later the .44 Automag, but I did not know about the Serpico/High Power connection. Now your post makes more sense (as all your posts do.)

I was a wimp and got me a Model 19 Combat Magnum instead.

125 posted on 02/21/2008 12:49:38 PM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: Shion

The sheeple are afraid of their own shadows.


126 posted on 02/21/2008 1:06:46 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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To: relictele

In the nearly 7 years I’ve had my CCW, I rarely leave the house without a firearm.

There’s hardly a day that goes by that I don’t shoot a co-worker or some random motorist that gets in my way on the freeway. And those punk kids on skateboards had it coming anyway. And don’t get me started on the bicyclists with their tight, gay, spandex costumes, begging to be shot.

/sarcasm

Harry Callahan: “A man’s got to know his limitations.”


127 posted on 02/21/2008 1:11:36 PM PST by TC Rider (The United States Constitution ? 1791. All Rights Reserved.)
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To: Kirkwood
You must shoot at least a couple hundred rounds through a new gun just to break it in so that it is reliable.

Agreed, that's what reasonable people do. Scared liberals buy it new and never shoot it. If it was properly holstered, it might not even show any signs of wear.

In 1979, inflation was what...10-11% year over year? The dollar value for a mint firearm may have risen enough to justify this.

128 posted on 02/21/2008 1:15:45 PM PST by Malsua
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

My Browning `parabellum’ is a `65. Even with a little slide slop it’s a lot more accurate than I am.
13 round mag, that’s right. Fobus makes a nice paddle holster for the gun.


129 posted on 02/21/2008 1:33:12 PM PST by tumblindice
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To: tumblindice
Back in the 70s,a buddy who owned a bar in Urbandale, IA was closing for the evening when he saw a guy pull down a ski mask over his face as he walked toward the front door. Charlie picked up his fully loaded Hi Power and went out the back door to get the drop on ski mask.
The holdup guy dropped his .22 when he saw Charlie flanking him and made a run for his car, an older Impala. Charlie let lose with all 13 rounds at the guy as he got into his car and although he took out the Impala, the perp missed being hit.
The cops were there in three minutes and extracted Mr. ski mask, now wearing curiously wet trousers. A tow truck was called to haul the car away. Charlie told me the Urbandale cops commended his shooting, but invited him down to their range for a tune up, just the same.
130 posted on 02/21/2008 1:43:01 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

Cool story.
My father didn’t tell many war stories but told this one. He carried the Browning in VN as an advisor. He had been using a Tokarev, really liked it but ran out of ammo so he got a Colt. The local VC learned to count to seven, so he traded an AK to a spook for the Browning.
Next time they met his M-16 `ran out’—damn!—and one or two of them stood up after seven Colt rounds—then he and John Browning, his counterpart and they all had a nice but noisy (and short) conversation.


131 posted on 02/21/2008 2:00:45 PM PST by tumblindice
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To: Malsua

My .40 Glock jammed tight on the first box of ammo. A smith in St. Paul removed a small burr and polished the ejection port slightly. Works like a dream now, but I agree. New gun ? Hit the range.


132 posted on 02/21/2008 3:46:42 PM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (ENERGY CRISIS made in Washington D. C.)
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To: Yo-Yo

The 19 is a great gun. Somehow all of mine drifted away while I was on an .44 Special N frame kick - so call me extra stupid. :) Bill Jordan was key in it’s development. I’ve got a signed and personalized copy of his “No Second Place Winner.”


133 posted on 02/21/2008 3:55:04 PM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: relictele

These mass shootings were not at all “impulsive”. For example, Columbine was planned for weeks. Also, the Virginia Tech shooter mailed a note and photo to NBC before he shot all those people. It seems “impulsive” shootings are not the problem.


134 posted on 02/21/2008 3:56:57 PM PST by utahagen
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To: relictele; All
Here's an inconvenient truth for gun control people. Contrary to the paranoid delusions of gun elimination factions that more armed people would bring more impulsive shootings, the Swiss have shown that firemarms management can be successfully integrated into a culture, effectively reducing crime.
http://www.stephenhalbrook.com/articles/guns-crime-swiss.html

135 posted on 02/21/2008 4:47:36 PM PST by Amendment10
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No doubt Fred is a Union zombie. Guns are bad,taxes are good. I live in his area and I am surrounded by jagoffs like this guy. They can’t vote themselves in enough taxes and higher fees & tolls fast enough.
136 posted on 02/21/2008 4:55:39 PM PST by 4yearlurker (We are the vehicles and God is the driver.)
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To: relictele

Frederick appears to have a rather nervous and confused disposition. A typical Pittsburgh Putz Gazette reader, also known as Pravda at the Point. Freddie wants to ignore the statistics from 10+ yrs of right to carry here in PA and every other state, that folks who have a CCW are much more law abiding and better shots than those who carry to “be a man” as Freddie admitted he was.


137 posted on 02/21/2008 5:31:08 PM PST by Eagles6
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To: relictele

“More armed people would bring more impulsive shootings”

But...if everyone were armed, the shooter wouldn’t get his first shot off before several passersby put extra holes into him.


138 posted on 02/21/2008 5:32:19 PM PST by Grunthor (McCain voters believe that it's possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.)
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To: relictele

“More armed people would bring more impulsive shootings”

One of the top 100 lies brought to the public by liberals, ignorant and scared of everything. All the States that have written CCW laws have not seen this hysteria of shootings so far.


139 posted on 02/21/2008 6:11:19 PM PST by CodeToad
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To: TheKidster

I don’t know...it is a simple watching and separating from the thought stream.” Be still and know that I am God. “ We can never know him lost in thoughts and feelings.


140 posted on 02/21/2008 9:47:42 PM PST by fabian
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