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To: proudtobeanamerican1
You just gave me a brilliant idea of what to get my liberal inlaws! NRA memberships!

LOL! It's not as if you even have to own a gun, just contribute toward preserving second amendment rights, etc.

I used to be totally anti-gun, hardly bought toy ones for my kids, had cap guns and all the fun of that when I was a kid. But then years ago I got to talking to somebody about wishing they would grab guns, he was a liberal of all things IIRC, and he said if they got rid of all the guns, then only the military/police and criminals would have them. So that made me more open to regular people owning them, but I must say some people aren't stable or responsible enough to have them, and unfortunately, some of those are the ones who have bunches of them.

But I thoroughly respect stable people owning them and learning gun safety and are responsible about it. So I changed my mind. And I'm slowly changing a few others' minds that are mature, responsible, no substance abuse probs, etc., and some are more open now than I would expect.

32 posted on 11/18/2008 11:47:42 PM PST by Aliska
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To: Aliska

but I must say some people aren’t stable or responsible enough to have them, and unfortunately, some of those are the ones who have bunches of them.


Thanks for your thoughts, made me think.

One of the tenants of conservatism is that there is no perfect system, unlike the liberals who are always promoting utopia.


47 posted on 11/19/2008 1:41:39 PM PST by PeterPrinciple ( Seeking the truth here folks.)
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