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Navy football has dropped its team motto because it's 'insensitive' to mass shooting victims
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Posted on 08/03/2019 12:09:08 PM PDT by ameribbean expat

The Naval Academy superintendent announced Friday that "Load the Clip" has been dropped as this year's football team motto, calling it "insensitive" to those affected by the mass shooting in Annapolis last year.

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1 posted on 08/03/2019 12:09:08 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

I keep wondering how much longer Texas Tech will keep their “Guns Up!” motto.


2 posted on 08/03/2019 12:12:04 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ameribbean expat

The military recruits snowflakes.


3 posted on 08/03/2019 12:12:55 PM PDT by CodeToad ( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!)
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To: ameribbean expat

This one I don’t have a problem with.


4 posted on 08/03/2019 12:13:57 PM PDT by Conserv
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To: ameribbean expat

Well that’s just dumb.

Military is “insensitive”, right ?


5 posted on 08/03/2019 12:14:46 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: ameribbean expat

They are changing the name to “Load the Magazine”?


6 posted on 08/03/2019 12:15:24 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Socialism is a gateway Ideology.)
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To: Conserv

” This is one I don’t have a problem with. “

Glad you’re so well protected.


7 posted on 08/03/2019 12:16:30 PM PDT by A strike (Import third world become third world)
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To: ameribbean expat
Change the name for a shooting that had nothing to do with the Academy? Ok.
8 posted on 08/03/2019 12:16:45 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: dfwgator

Jesus, Mary and Joseph ! Will sanity ever prevail again?


9 posted on 08/03/2019 12:17:14 PM PDT by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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To: ameribbean expat

So I guess, “Killing Machinel” isn’t worthy of consideration.


10 posted on 08/03/2019 12:17:38 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: Conserv

F’n pansy


11 posted on 08/03/2019 12:17:45 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: ameribbean expat; All

Load the mag.


12 posted on 08/03/2019 12:18:05 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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13 posted on 08/03/2019 12:18:45 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Salvavida

Yeah, and “Blow Away Army” is right out.


14 posted on 08/03/2019 12:19:12 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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They will settle on “Blow Army.”


15 posted on 08/03/2019 12:20:47 PM PDT by Salvavida
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To: dfwgator

That reminds me - I haven’t heard anything in a long time about the rich kid who killed a cop at Texas Tech. Coming up toward the 2 year mark. Looks like there was a brief court appearance at about the year and a half mark, but the media appears to be generally unwilling to touch the story.

The system letting it age until it gets too old to try?


16 posted on 08/03/2019 12:21:07 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: Billthedrill

Not for the LGBTQXYZ midshipman it isn’t.


17 posted on 08/03/2019 12:21:33 PM PDT by rlmorel (Trump to China: This Capitalist Will Not Sell You the Rope with Which You Will Hang Us.)
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To: litehaus
Will sanity ever prevail again?

When the sane people muster the courage to tar and feather the lunatics.

18 posted on 08/03/2019 12:23:23 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ameribbean expat

It SHOULD be changed...

to

“Load the MAGAZINE”.


19 posted on 08/03/2019 12:24:56 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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Oh darn...ya beat me to it.


20 posted on 08/03/2019 12:25:26 PM PDT by left that other site (For America to have CONFIDENCE in our future, we must have PRIDE in our HISTORY... DJT)
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