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Why does America have so many guns?
The Washington Post ^
| 19 December 2012
| Harold Meyerson
Posted on 12/19/2012 7:34:08 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: kcvl; pabianice
Why does America have so many bad newspapers and COMMUNIST PROPAGANDISTS? The people of Ukraine in his beloved Soviet Union did not have enough guns, things did NOT turn out so well for them indeed!
To: MinorityRepublican
Because we can. So, get bent.
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posted on
12/19/2012 9:35:05 PM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: MinorityRepublican
Theres a name for those gun buyers: Republicans. As the FiveThirtyEight blog noted Tuesday, the 2010 General Social Survey showed that 50 percent of adult Republicans owned guns, while only 22 percent of adult Democrats did. This gap in gun-ownership rates has swelled over the past 40 years: In the 1973 survey, 55 percent of Republicans and 45 percent of Democrats had a gun at home. Polls suggest this gap will continue to widen: In the 2008 national exit polls, the percentage of Democrats with guns declined as the age cohorts grew younger, while the GOP rate of gun ownership was the same across all age groups. Increasingly, then, its our shrinking Republican minority that is buying guns. Everyone knows democrats lie. They're not going to admit to owning guns.
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posted on
12/19/2012 9:50:56 PM PST
by
Razz Barry
(Round'em up, send'em home.)
To: Organic Panic
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posted on
12/19/2012 9:54:55 PM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
Speak to the demographics, punk.
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posted on
12/19/2012 10:01:31 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
To: coloradan
I’m not in Ireland and I wasn’t on a train. Morning to morning and dusk to dusk it still takes three days to travel across Texas. There’s a ditty about that and I sure wish I could remember it.
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posted on
12/19/2012 10:04:31 PM PST
by
JouleZ
(You are the company you keep.)
To: ctdonath2
>> In the United States, there are 3.2 gun homicides per 100,000
And what percentage of those homicides were caused by Obama voters?
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posted on
12/19/2012 10:05:46 PM PST
by
Gene Eric
(Demoralization is a weapon of the enemy. Don't get it, don't spread it!)
To: Razz Barry
The Democrats already know what the master plan is, so of course they lie and say they have no guns at home. Why on earth would any reasonably intelligent conservative tell some one who is obviously a political pollster that they have a weapon at home or any where else.
This is how data is is collected and later acted on.
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posted on
12/19/2012 10:17:06 PM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: MinorityRepublican
I note the author leaves out the tidbit that the US has more lawyers than the rest of the world combined; using his logic that more gun owners make more murders, more lawyers should make us more lawful.
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posted on
12/19/2012 10:29:31 PM PST
by
piasa
(Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
To: JouleZ
I was referring to an old joke:
“Texas is so big, that you can be in Texas, on a train and go to sleep one day, wake up the next day and go to sleep that night, and wake up on the third day and still be in Texas.”
“We have slow trains in Ireland, too.”
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posted on
12/19/2012 10:34:34 PM PST
by
coloradan
(The US has become a banana republic, except without the bananas - or the republic.)
To: coloradan
Oh my, I think we are talking about the same thing! Thanks for being so patient! Sorry you don’t have faster trains and more guns in Ireland. :(
Brits have been dis-arming colonies for centuries. Yeah, I know...Ireland tried.
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posted on
12/19/2012 10:57:11 PM PST
by
JouleZ
(You are the company you keep.)
To: MinorityRepublican
1. because we can.
2. because freedom ain’t free.
3. Be Prepared.
4. Spare parts.
5. Variety is the spice of life.
6. couldn’t pass up the “Buy 2, Get one Free” offer...
7. You don’t wear the same socks all week....
8. Different guns have different purposes and abilities.
9. Because there are so many criminals that are deterred by not wanting to get shot prcticing their craft.
10. Becase the right to self-defense is inherent in the inalienable right to life every person has, given to them by God Almighty.
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posted on
12/19/2012 11:11:38 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I can neither confirm or deny that; even if I could, I couldn't - it's classified.)
To: 23 Everest
“Because we fear our government.”
Because we fear ALL government.
To: JRandomFreeper
"Jerry Clower, from Liberty, Mississippi could explain how you can't get no deader than stone-cold-dead, right there." Clower was good, but I always preferred Justin Wilson.
"Sorry, that's a southern thing."
Justin is a "Louisiana thing"..... :^)
To: CaptainK
So what. Most of the gun murders are perpetrated by Democrats. You know, that's a good point. Just ban all Dems from owing firearms. Problem solved.
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posted on
12/20/2012 3:47:48 AM PST
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To the left the truth looks like Right-Wing extremism.)
To: MinorityRepublican
Let's bracket the statistics a little bit more carefully:
Germany 1939-1945: 1 million murdered per year.
Russia 1917-1950: 1 million murdered per year.
China 1945 - 1980 1 million murdered per year.
Gee, maybe the US murder rate isn't so bad after all...
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posted on
12/20/2012 4:35:29 AM PST
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: broken_arrow1
add:
1975-1979 Cambodia 1 million murdered per year
...and they all enforced strict gun control
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posted on
12/20/2012 4:41:04 AM PST
by
broken_arrow1
(I regret that I have but one life to give for my country - Nathan Hale "Patriot")
To: MinorityRepublican
Why does America have so many guns?
The answer to that question is.....ready for this.........BECAUSE WE CAN!
No further explanation needed.
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posted on
12/20/2012 4:58:03 AM PST
by
DH
(Once the tainted finger of government touches anything the rot begins)
To: MinorityRepublican
Meyerson asks why Americans have so many guns. My answer: to protect ourselves from people, leftists, like Meyerson.
To: MinorityRepublican
Why? Because the Democratic Party makes a lot of money promoting their sale.
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posted on
12/20/2012 5:04:48 AM PST
by
ctdonath2
($1 meals: http://abuckaplate.blogspot.com)
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