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Atlantic Editor: You're A Bad Parent If You Own A Gun
Townhall.com ^ | October 8, 2017 | Matt Vespa

Posted on 10/08/2017 3:19:30 PM PDT by Kaslin

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To: miss marmelstein

The problem is that there are judges and state bureaucracies that share the same view.

Lawsuit alleges Michigan agency told grandfather he’d have to give up gun rights to foster his grandson
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/19/lawsuit-alleges-michigan-agency-told-grandfather-hed-have-to-give-up-gun-rights-to-foster-his-grandson.html


61 posted on 10/08/2017 4:35:59 PM PDT by tbw2
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To: mountainlion
"Who would own just one gun?" Oh I am REAĹLY bad!
62 posted on 10/08/2017 4:39:41 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Trailerpark Badass

Nothing happened to me, but I heard and read enough about young children who got hold of a gun because their idiot father or uncle let the gun lay around where the toddlers could find them.


63 posted on 10/08/2017 4:41:27 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: eyeamok

“You’re a Bad Parent if you let your children Watch TV”

Friends dont let friends vote democrat.


64 posted on 10/08/2017 4:44:26 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: Kaslin

Parents are supposed to protect their kids. If you dont own a gun, you cant protect your kid.... ergo, you are a bad parent.


65 posted on 10/08/2017 4:47:17 PM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I would suggest practicing. Own it!


66 posted on 10/08/2017 4:49:14 PM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: Trailerpark Badass

The 3%:50% came from article last year:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/sep/19/us-gun-ownership-survey

I would fall in the 3% but lost all my firearms in a boating accident. :o(


67 posted on 10/08/2017 4:51:11 PM PDT by phil shifley
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To: Kaslin
Well knowing nothing about handling guns, you would be susceptible to the narrative the media, in my opinion, would like to advance with stories like that.

As I said, from a literal lifetime of handling firearms of all types, I find most stories where toddlers allegedly "find" a gun, and manipulate it to the point where it fires and injures or kills them, or someone else, incredibly suspicious.

That said, I don't need the opinion of someone utterly ignorant of a subject to tell me what I am and am not responsible for.

68 posted on 10/08/2017 4:51:57 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: FreedomPoster

“Ah, yes, The Egregious Frum.”
Frump...what a knob. Why do we even note what these handjobs say?


69 posted on 10/08/2017 4:58:59 PM PDT by Bonemaker
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To: trisham

70 posted on 10/08/2017 5:13:30 PM PDT by 4Liberty (MSM = Democrat's PR firm)
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To: phil shifley
ALL social science is BS. This "study" has an obvious agenda: to marginalize traditional American gun owners in the face of changing demographics. The ironic thing is that in my pretty significant experience, new immigrants, particularly Asian, are often very enthusiastic gun owners and 2nd Amendment supporters.

Having pursued an advanced degree in the humanities, I automatically stop listening when I hear the words, "a Harvard study says..."

71 posted on 10/08/2017 5:14:00 PM PDT by Trailerpark Badass (There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach, said one woman.)
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To: 4Liberty

72 posted on 10/08/2017 5:15:55 PM PDT by 4Liberty (MSM = Democrat's PR firm)
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To: Kaslin

Kaslin, my dear, perhaps you have a point. My intention was not to direct any animosity toward you. Rather the article, which is the first I ever commented on without reading, really. The title in itself revealed enough blind arrogance to know the content of ridiculous intent. I’m not a gun guy but possess because the world dictates I should or possibly suffer. Who better or with more conviction to defend my castle and it’s precious contents than me? That is the stark reality the world has always shown in some form. Your fear/aversion is justified, but not your fault. But protect yourself ... perhaps a spear gun or flame thrower? ;) And don’t let anyone tell you different in their misguided steel-toed boot marching to fuel their twisted ideology to sooth idiosyncrasies inane. And I don’t ride motorcycles anymore also.


73 posted on 10/08/2017 5:17:31 PM PDT by Eagles Field
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

“Same old drivel as in 1968, after the murder of Bobby Kennedy.”

Believe me, it was much worse then. I was 19 that year and already knew that LBJ rammed GCA-68 through Congress as his final revenge against his opponents, meaning anyone who owned guns and disagreed with his Great Society agenda.

Rednecks and hardhats, later derided as Nixon’s `silent majority’, were the class enemy to Lyndon Johnson, possibly the most evil & vindictive chief executive this nation has ever known. His death at 64 was sheer karma in my view.

The common culture of the late sixties regarded the NRA & gun owners as ignorant dangerous hicks. Polls routinely claimed that a majority felt handguns should be banned.

Today at least (an era that began with Ronald Reagan) the gungrabbers must endure counterattack from their intended targets. It’s much more an equal battle than before.


74 posted on 10/08/2017 5:21:07 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Sooth2222

Wow, I thought I was the only one who thought it was important to teach their kids how to drive a manual. Way to go.


75 posted on 10/08/2017 5:23:08 PM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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To: 4Liberty

76 posted on 10/08/2017 5:23:13 PM PDT by 4Liberty (MSM = Democrat's PR firm)
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To: 4Liberty

77 posted on 10/08/2017 5:28:51 PM PDT by 4Liberty (MSM = Democrat's PR firm)
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To: Kaslin

If you read the Atlantic, you are a bad American


78 posted on 10/08/2017 5:29:59 PM PDT by Thibodeaux (whites seem to actually be supreme)
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To: Eagles Field

I did not feel that you did.


79 posted on 10/08/2017 5:33:39 PM PDT by Kaslin (Politicians are not born; they are excreted -Civilibus nati sunt; sunt excernitur. (Cicero))
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To: 4Liberty

80 posted on 10/08/2017 5:43:04 PM PDT by 4Liberty (MSM = Democrat's PR firm)
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