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EDITORIAL: Sign the air-gun bill
Contra Costa Times ^
| 8/18/6
| Editor
Posted on 08/18/2006 12:56:31 PM PDT by SmithL
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posted on
08/18/2006 12:56:34 PM PDT
by
SmithL
To: SmithL
Rubber Band Guns and nail guns should be outlawed too... and also baseballs, rocks, sticks, and thick pieces of wheat grass.
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posted on
08/18/2006 12:58:29 PM PDT
by
Porterville
(Hispanic Republican American Bush Supporter)
To: SmithL
Outlaw spitball shooters, too! They can put out your eye!
SHUT-UP!! Militant
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posted on
08/18/2006 12:59:39 PM PDT
by
militant2
("The society that forces you to tolerate the intolerable is doomed!")
To: SmithL
As always libs ban things and refuse to condemn actions of people. They are so tolerant and non-judgemental that they don't care what people do. But they ban things like guns, fireworks, cell phones.
The right thing to ban is agressive harmful actions.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:01:38 PM PDT
by
Leftism is Mentally Deranged
(American Left, Islamic Fascism, Mainstream Media = ideology of nihilism, despair, nothingness.)
To: SmithL
It is a good thing those punk had an airgun.
I'll bet if they were up to their usual tricks of dropping bricks from overpasses, he'd be really sorry.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:04:38 PM PDT
by
Fido969
(Don't tread on me.)
To: SmithL
Had to check for Onion origins.
2 things
Johnny, quit playing with that BB gun, someone might lose and eye and we will have to stop and look for it.....
This is a real problem, some air rifles are quite powerful - and in the right hands can kill. Passing yet another law is not going to make a difference.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:05:33 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(The phrase "What if" or "If only" are for children.)
To: militant2
Don't forget steak knives, or butter knives for that matter. In the wrong hands they are deadly. Oh and matches and lighter, someone could start a fire with those things. For crying out loud, lets go after the wrongdoers and not the inanimate object.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:05:44 PM PDT
by
MPJackal
("If you are not with us, you are against us.")
To: SmithL
ANYONE WHO HAS ever been shot by an STAPLE gun does not need to be told that, in the wrong hands, it can be a dangerous weapon......
ANYONE WHO HAS ever been shot by an BB gun does not need to be told that, in the wrong hands, it can be a dangerous weapon.......
ANYONE WHO HAS ever been shot by a BLOW gun does not need to be told that, in the wrong hands, it can be a dangerous weapon..........
ANYONE WHO HAS ever been shot by an PAPERWAD gun does not need to be told that, in the wrong hands, it can be a dangerous weapon.......
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:06:28 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: SmithL
"This is a huge loophole that should have been closed a long time ago," says Sen. Tom Torlakson, D-Antioch. How did I know it was a dem just from the headline? /s
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:06:49 PM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Nanny Statists are Ameba's.)
To: militant2
About the only gun I know of that isn't dangerous is a TY-WRAP GUN..............
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:07:52 PM PDT
by
Red Badger
(Is Castro dead yet?........)
To: SmithL
It has now awaits Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's signature. Of course he will sign it just like he signed the .50 cal ban.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:09:05 PM PDT
by
beltfed308
(Nanny Statists are Ameba's.)
To: SmithL
Onwards marches the liberal war on fun.
To: SmithL
Jeesh... They make a big stink about air guns, and yet they do nothing to combat the much bigger public menace of "assault sporks"...
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:10:06 PM PDT
by
The Electrician
("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
To: SmithL
Damn, I only have 4 air rifles. 2 that send a pellet at least 1000ft per second. Great for killing pest squirrels, fieid mice and even armadillos.
As for the rest my REAL rifles and pistols do the job.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:11:48 PM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(an enemy of islam)
To: SmithL
it would appear that existing laws on the books do not go far enough in protecting California residents from weapons that some people mistake for toys.
Why? Because some anti-gun prosecutors are declining to prosecute for assault, in an attempt to score political points?
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:11:54 PM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
To: Red Badger
I think those can be dangerous, too, if you hit someone on the head with them or try to put them into an oriface where they don't belong. I'm afraid it's just time to outlaw everything!! The potential for anything to be used as a weapon just terrifies me!!
Militant
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:12:08 PM PDT
by
militant2
("The society that forces you to tolerate the intolerable is doomed!")
To: SmithL
More gun control in California. I'm so glad I left that socialist pesthole. The endless stream of gun control laws was a key factor in my exodus to Idaho.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:12:12 PM PDT
by
Myrddin
To: SmithL
ANYONE WHO HAS ever been shot by an air gun does not need to be told that, in the wrong hands, it can be a dangerous weapon. Anyone who has ever been _____ by a(n) _____ does not need to be told that, in the wrong hands, it can be a dangerous weapon.
- stabbed - knife
- stabbed - screwdriver
- stabbed - pencil
- hit - baseball bat
- hit - large stick
- hit - rock
- hit - car
- cut - razor blade
- cut - box cutter
- cut - barbed-wire fence
- punched - closed fist
- kicked - person proficient in tae kwon do
- etc. - etc.
Meaningless emotional drivel is a poor foundation for good law.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:15:20 PM PDT
by
TChris
(Banning DDT wasn't about birds. It was about power.)
To: SmithL
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:16:15 PM PDT
by
Sax
(You Done Tore Out My Heart And Stomped That Sucker Flat)
To: All
You guys should check out the poll at the link.
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posted on
08/18/2006 1:17:11 PM PDT
by
andyk
(Go Matt Kenseth!)
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