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Blanks: Nothing exceeds like excess in gun control
The Chicago Tribune ^ | 10/27/2017 | Chris “Brotha” Blanks

Posted on 10/28/2017 6:12:19 PM PDT by Simon Green

Being one with prior convictions of possession with intent to deliver along with so-called UUWs (unlawful use of weapons) and being 27 years cocaine-clean and crack-free, I can attest and bear witness firsthand to the fact that nothing exceeds like excess, often resulting in far too many addictive and fatal accounts.

With the high number and epidemic proportions of heroin-related and opioid deaths, I don't think anyone would be quick to suggest that heroin doesn't kill, people do.

From the 59 people killed in Las Vegas to the 500 slayings on the streets of Chicago this year through September, many suggest that said deaths and such excess can be laid at the front doorstep of the National Rifle Association and assault weapon enthusiasts.

The turf and blocks of the streets and combat training grounds of this nation have taught me that automatic and assault weapons belong on the battlefields of nations, not on the streets of its citizens. As a former M60 machine gunner and squad leader who was required to have an abundance of more than 2,000 60-caliber rounds of ammo at all times while in the field, I again attest and confirm nothing leads to exceeding fatal numbers and high body counts like excessive automatic weapons and banana clips of ammo to match.

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TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
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To: Simon Green

To prevent duplication, please do not alter the published title. Thank you.


21 posted on 10/28/2017 6:34:23 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator
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To: laplata

Don’t even mention what keeps a door gunner from falling out the door of a helicopter.


22 posted on 10/28/2017 6:39:00 PM PDT by Spok
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To: Spok

Ha! That’s right.


23 posted on 10/28/2017 6:41:05 PM PDT by laplata (Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: Big Red Badger

Have you tried new improved Banana Clips with Almonds?

GREAT with gluten free low tar cockroach milk.

Not sure, but I don’t think I’ve heard “banana clip” since Clinton’s AWB. Well, other than the times I’m at gun shows exploiting the loophole.


24 posted on 10/28/2017 6:53:08 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: Spok

I see what you did there.jpg


25 posted on 10/28/2017 6:54:19 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

You have to heat them up first in the microwave so the metal expands.


26 posted on 10/28/2017 6:55:40 PM PDT by 1_Inch_Group (Country Before Party)
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To: Simon Green

What is this Vegas shooting that occasionally pops up every few days?

/S


27 posted on 10/28/2017 7:32:33 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wH-pk2vZG2M)
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To: Simon Green

I though this was an article about shooting blank cartridges.


28 posted on 10/28/2017 7:41:13 PM PDT by Redcitizen
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To: Simon Green

If we applied this logic thought process to black abortions and just had a lot more of them then black on black crime would decline.


29 posted on 10/28/2017 7:51:15 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: Blood of Tyrants

Too many whities have too many guns?

Bro, come take ‘em away. Make it happen. Right now.

;^)


30 posted on 10/28/2017 8:22:54 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: Simon Green

Brotha Shoots Blanks!


31 posted on 10/28/2017 8:36:46 PM PDT by TigersEye (0bama. The Legacy is a lie. The lie is the Legacy.)
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To: 1_Inch_Group

That 60 cal ammo must cost a fortune these days!


32 posted on 10/28/2017 11:24:26 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: facedown

Nothing like getting your information about gun control and firearms from a crackhead poet.

Seriously, though, you would think at least one editor at a paper of this size would know that an M60 doesn’t fire .60 ammo or feed from ‘banana clips’. The ignorance is just astounding.


33 posted on 10/29/2017 5:53:33 AM PDT by nobamanomore
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To: x1stcav

As I recall, just about everybody in the platoon carried a belt (or 2) of M60 rounds. A poncho was laid out by the M60 gun position and some belts were placed upon it and arranged by the M60 team.


34 posted on 10/29/2017 7:22:37 AM PDT by Clutch Martin (Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancakes, just as every culture has its noodle.)
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To: 1_Inch_Group
If their good enough for ex preezys and fast n furious then .......


35 posted on 10/29/2017 7:32:49 AM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Sidebar Moderator

Got it. Will do in future posts.


36 posted on 10/29/2017 7:44:43 AM PDT by Simon Green
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To: nobamanomore

Does anyone actually believe this crackhead felon served a single day in the military?


37 posted on 10/29/2017 7:45:57 AM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Clutch Martin

Our SOP was every swinging i___ in the platoon carried a hundred round belt. We kept ours, except for the gun teams, in the boxes as we found it was easier to keep clean and easier to toss to the gun team in case anything impromptu happened.

Add everything else and it was an eighty-five pound load...in the Central Highlands.

Those were the days.


38 posted on 10/29/2017 7:47:29 AM PDT by x1stcav (We have the guns. Do we have the will?)
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