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MI:Detroit Police to Mayor Candidate: Get a Gun
Gun Watch ^
 | 23 August, 2013
 | Dean Weingarten
Posted on 08/22/2013 8:50:31 AM PDT by marktwain
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    Many police chiefs and sheriffs have changed their mind, once they have seen the results of shall issue concealed carry. 
I wonder if any of them question the credibility of those who gave them the wrong information and made the wrong predictions.
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 8:50:32 AM PDT
by 
marktwain
 
To: marktwain
     ...now, now, lay off Detroit. Them people is living in ‘Mad Max’ times. Moe Syzlac
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 8:56:22 AM PDT
by 
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
 
To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
    Detroit leads the nation in justifiable Homicides which means people are shooting back at a higher rate than anywhere else in the nation.
 So far I've mostly been impressed with the new police chief. He cut the Mayor's security detail from 20 officers to 6. He also ordered cops to stop reporting to break ins by the dozen when 2 to 4 officers is sufficient.
 
 Michigan legislative action thread
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 8:57:41 AM PDT
by 
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
 
To: marktwain
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:05:42 AM PDT
by 
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
 
To: marktwain
    It was a local cop who told us to get a gun.
 Originally to get rid of a roaming Pit Bull, but it's "good for other things too" he said.
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:12:52 AM PDT
by 
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
 
To: marktwain
    "I think that when you begin to bring weapons into those types of areas, into schools and churches, I think it kind of takes away from the purpose of those buildings." "I think" is used very improperly in that sentence.
Clearly very little critical analysis went into taking those positions
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:16:48 AM PDT
by 
Mr. K
(Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
 
To: cripplecreek
    They tried to hijack the election as well..
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:31:14 AM PDT
by 
ken5050
(CRUZ MISSILE! Ted 2016...a non-Canadian aimed directly at the Democrat party)
 
To: ken5050
    They tried to hijack the election as well.
 Still trying. The white guy originally won 46 percent to 30 percent. Today it stands at 41 to 34 percent in favor of the black guy.
 
State has 10 days to vote to certify tumultuous Detroit mayoral race
 Personally I'd like to see the white guy win because it would open the door for a black republican to win.
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:37:20 AM PDT
by 
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
 
To: cripplecreek
    They were pretty ballsey in trying to invalidate, what..30% of the vote on the last possible day..
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:38:38 AM PDT
by 
ken5050
(2014 Tea Party Trifecta! Retire Mitch, Lamar, and Lindsey)
 
To: marktwain
    Now many opponents cannot seem to remember why.I used to write the reporters in Minnesota, when they were all screeching doom and gloom about the pending CCW law, that a year from now they would be reporting, with a sense of wonderment, why crime, road rage, etc. has not increased. 
At one point the hysteria was so great I listed the five stages of accepting death, using their headlines. One lib reporter who had a sense of humor said that while it was clever, I was wrong. 
I asked her to get back in touch with me a year after CCW went through. I'm still waiting.
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:40:29 AM PDT
by 
Oatka
(This is America. Assimilate or evaporate.)
 
To: ken5050
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:45:45 AM PDT
by 
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
 
To: cripplecreek
    But they didn’t have chads...
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:46:19 AM PDT
by 
ken5050
(2014 Tea Party Trifecta! Retire Mitch, Lamar, and Lindsey)
 
To: Oatka
    It would be great for you to email her now and see if you get a response...
You probably would not. It is almost impossible for people to admit a mistake of that depth, but it might be entertaining to hear her response, if she would send one...
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 9:46:24 AM PDT
by 
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live.  Long live the new media!)
 
To: Oatka
    Get back in touch with her, and suggest that her failure to analyze that situation with detachment, and the fate of journalism in general, are linked.
Then ask her to get back to you in a year when she says you are wrong. Chances are she’ll be taking UB40.
 
To: marktwain
    Howze called police, telling a dispatcher she was a former mayoral candidate who had just completed a news conference. I thought that if I explained who I was that it might illustrate the state of mind I was in, Howze said. I was hoping for a faster response time.
Typical lib. We're all equal, She is just more equal than everyone else needing the police.
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 10:02:20 AM PDT
by 
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
 
To: ChildOfThe60s
    resistance is futile! you will be assimilated by the NRA!
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 10:28:24 AM PDT
by 
TurboZamboni
(Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
 
To: BitWielder1
    My grandfather was a Detroit cop as was my dad who retired as an executive Lieutenant back around 1978. Dad was always a staunch defender of the constitution, especially the 2nd. Amend. After once responding to a B & E, he told the old lady to get herself a shotgun......
 
To: Hot Tabasco
    New Motto: Friends Don't Let Friends Be Defenseless.
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posted on 
08/22/2013 2:41:57 PM PDT
by 
BitWielder1
(Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
 
To: ChildOfThe60s; All
    Typical lib. We're all equal, She is just more equal than everyone else needing the police. Maybe she thought so, but it took the police 20 minutes to reach her, when they were told it was a hot burglary or worse. A lot can happen in 20 minutes.
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 6:13:30 PM PDT
by 
marktwain
(The MSM must die for the Republic to live.  Long live the new media!)
 
To: marktwain
    That’s my point. She automatically assumed she would get special treatment by saying she was a government leftie. That fact that she didn’t (we don’t know for certain that she didn’t, 20 minutes may be much better than the rest of the great unwashed receive) is not that relevant. She expected it because of who she is. That says a lot.
 
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posted on 
08/22/2013 6:36:01 PM PDT
by 
ChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
 
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