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"The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed," Scalia told the audience of about 2,000.

Absolutely right!

1 posted on 02/26/2006 1:44:42 PM PST by wagglebee
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who's hunted with Vice President Dick Cheney

The media would go bonkers if he shot Scalia. Dont they wish.

2 posted on 02/26/2006 1:47:46 PM PST by curtisgardner
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"Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?"

People do it with concealed pistols all the time...

3 posted on 02/26/2006 1:49:11 PM PST by the invisib1e hand ("Who is it, really, making up your mind?")
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Good man!


6 posted on 02/26/2006 1:51:15 PM PST by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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This seems slanted towards guns for hunting.
I looked again and can't find hunting in the 2nd Amendment
7 posted on 02/26/2006 1:52:06 PM PST by stylin19a (Do you still have sex or are you already playing golf?)
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I started of with a BB gun at about age 8. Started hunting with my grandfather at 12. Became an avid shooter and hunter to present. Up to the 70's, it wasn't a big deal to enjoy firearms as a hobby or sport. About then, the liberal movement started demonizing firearms and anyone who were associated with them.
9 posted on 02/26/2006 1:58:07 PM PST by jazusamo (:Gregory was riled while Hume smiled:)
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and politicians try to say guns are only for hunting...that is why they believe in the 2nd amendment...so the VP can shoot republican lawyers!!!

No one else but police(and their body guards) need guns..not even the military.


10 posted on 02/26/2006 1:58:27 PM PST by cajun-jack
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Only responsible people.

Drop off a trailer of loaded shotguns in the Bronx or South Central and see what happens.


11 posted on 02/26/2006 1:59:35 PM PST by mmercier (same as it ever was)
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When I was 12, I actually had a scabbard on my bike, to carry my .22. I could ride through town, to Western Auto, park the bike, walk into the store, with the rifle, buy my weekly needs of ammo, get back on the bike, and go hunting.
Does anyone else remember buying 10 .22 long rifle loads, or 5 shotgun shells, because it was all you could afford?
When I was 18, I crewed on a commercial snapper boat, I would walk a couple of miles to the city dock, with a Lee Enfield slung over my shoulder, at 2 AM. One morning, a cop stopped me on the bridge, asked me where I was going, I told him "fishing", and he gave me a lift to the dock, and shared his thermos of coffee with me. He never even asked if the rifle was loaded! Imagine that, a "cop" assuming that a "civilian" kid, had sense enough to carry a gun, without calling in the SWAT bunch.
I am amazed, in retrospect, at just how quickly my life has gone by, and by just how much our freedoms have suffered, in such a short time.


13 posted on 02/26/2006 2:12:49 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (MAY I DIE ON MY FEET IN MY SWAMP, BUAIDH NO BAS)
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Going to a gun-show for a rare part, I once walked into a Las Vegas casino carrying a Colt Sporter (AR-15 clone).

Security guards go, "Nice gun..!"

WEIRDEST FEELING...!

17 posted on 02/26/2006 3:04:01 PM PST by gaijin
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Hell I mused to walk out of my house in the Germantown section of Phila at 17 with my 15 year old brother carrying a shotgun and walk two blocks to the trolley get on ride for 1/2 hour get off take a bus into Ambler PA and walk 1 mile to go hunting and NOBODY even gave a damn
That was back in 1953

People wouldn't believe that when I tell them that today

And the police didn't ear vests as a daily part of their uniform


18 posted on 02/26/2006 3:28:15 PM PST by uncbob
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22 posted on 02/26/2006 4:39:35 PM PST by Vic3O3 (Jeremiah 31:16-17 (KJV))
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Now if we can get them to over turn the NFA of '34, the GCA of '68, that FOPA of '86, and the '89 Import ban. Maybe we could get back to the 50 State Alaska style carry laws that the Founders originally envisioned.


24 posted on 02/26/2006 4:50:12 PM PST by Dead Corpse (I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.)
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When my father taught high school, his students carried their guns to school, on the school bus! He was the coach of the rifle team, and many kids would take their firearms into school to work on in the shop, etc.
26 posted on 02/26/2006 5:39:49 PM PST by Gondring (I'll give up my right to die when hell freezes over my dead body!)
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Check out DNR seeks input on deer hunting (But You Know The New York Slimes)
29 posted on 02/26/2006 7:58:05 PM PST by Bender2 (Redid my FR Homepage just for ya'll... Now, Vote Republican and vote often)
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QUOTED FOR POSTERITY--and a REALITY CHECK!!!



When I was 12, I actually had a scabbard on my bike, to carry my .22. I could ride through town, to Western Auto, park the bike, walk into the store, with the rifle, buy my weekly needs of ammo, get back on the bike, and go hunting.
Does anyone else remember buying 10 .22 long rifle loads, or 5 shotgun shells, because it was all you could afford?
When I was 18, I crewed on a commercial snapper boat, I would walk a couple of miles to the city dock, with a Lee Enfield slung over my shoulder, at 2 AM. One morning, a cop stopped me on the bridge, asked me where I was going, I told him "fishing", and he gave me a lift to the dock, and shared his thermos of coffee with me. He never even asked if the rifle was loaded! Imagine that, a "cop" assuming that a "civilian" kid, had sense enough to carry a gun, without calling in the SWAT bunch.
I am amazed, in retrospect, at just how quickly my life has gone by, and by just how much our freedoms have suffered, in such a short time.

13 posted on 02/26/2006 2:12:49 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER



I used to walk out of my house in the Germantown section of Phila at 17 with my 15 year old brother carrying a shotgun and walk two blocks to the trolley get on ride for 1/2 hour get off take a bus into Ambler PA and walk 1 mile to go hunting and NOBODY even gave a damn
That was back in 1953

People wouldn't believe that when I tell them that today

And the police didn't ear vests as a daily part of their uniform

18 posted on 02/26/2006 3:28:15 PM PST by uncbob


30 posted on 02/26/2006 8:50:24 PM PST by The Spirit Of Allegiance (SAVE THE BRAINFOREST! Boycott the RED Dead Tree Media & NUKE the DNC Class Action Temper Tantrum!)
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"Well, it's not just for crime it's also for hunting."

Not much help there, Judge.


31 posted on 02/26/2006 8:52:14 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck
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My memories of childhood include Dad using his rifle to protect us.

He once shot a rattlesnake coiled up and ready to strike some of the kids, including my sister, playing near it.

He and the men of the neighborhood would go down to the canal and shoot moccasins to make the area safer for the kids.

He told us about going out with his Dad to get rabbits for dinner during the Depression.

Now my brother uses his rifle to get the turtles and coyotes that come around for the geese and the cats.

And not long ago my sister-in-law grabbed a shotgun and scared off a meth-head that had smashed through the front window to rob their home while she was there alone.

It's not for crime, it's for protection and in bad times for feeding your family.


32 posted on 02/26/2006 9:46:01 PM PST by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1562436/posts)
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God, please give us more justices like Scalia. It's so nice to have someone with a brain on the court.


38 posted on 02/27/2006 7:51:20 AM PST by farmer18th
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"I used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan with a rifle," he said. "Could you imagine doing that today in New York City?"

And which NYC was safer to live in? Draw any obvious conclusions, libs? (not you, wagglebee)

39 posted on 02/27/2006 7:54:05 AM PST by Still Thinking (Disregard the law of unintended consequences at your own risk.)
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I bet the nonprofit turkey federation has preserved its target species better than the endangered species act.


40 posted on 02/27/2006 8:19:49 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE!)
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