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Catching Fire From All Sides - Gun Control Could Get Sticky For Dem Hopefuls In Pennsylvania
National Journal ^
| March 25, 2008
| Linda Douglass
Posted on 03/26/2008 10:20:27 AM PDT by neverdem
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To: neverdem
>We live in interesting times, IMHO
Yes, my friend. We do.
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posted on
03/26/2008 11:47:57 AM PDT
by
bill1952
(I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
As resident of the commonwealth of Pa, I'm shocked that gun ownership is this low. My ancedotal evidence indicates that gun ownership is a lot higher per household here than 42%. Not everyone admits everything to a survey.
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posted on
03/26/2008 11:47:59 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(su - | echo "All your " | chown -740 us ./base | kill -9 | cd / | rm -r | echo "belong to us")
To: neverdem
>Philadelphia has experienced an epidemic of gun killings: 331 people were shot to death last year, 321 with handguns.<
Thank God they don’t know how effective rifles and shatguns are!
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posted on
03/26/2008 11:51:55 AM PDT
by
B4Ranch
( (Give a person a fish .......Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks)
To: neverdem
Peter Hamm, communications director for the Brady Campaign, noted approvingly that Clinton and Obama both have long records supporting tighter regulations on guns. "We would be happy with either of them," he said. For those who say McCain isn't all that different from the Dem candidates...
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posted on
03/26/2008 11:52:21 AM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: umgud
So the crime rate in the urban Democrat controlled areas is astronomical, but she thinks she might want a gun in the rural low crime areas controlled by the Republicans?As the Bullfrog would probably point out that D.C., Detroit and Baltimore are proof that you can trust inner city blacks with guns much more than rural whitey.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:03:13 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(2 Thessalonians 3:10 “... He that will not work, neither should he eat.”)
To: Travis McGee
Damn those sneaky, evil guns, jumping up and shooting people with no warning! Probably Glocks!
; < )
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:05:40 PM PDT
by
Eaker
(2 Thessalonians 3:10 “... He that will not work, neither should he eat.”)
To: dirtboy
For those who say McCain isn't all that different from the Dem candidates... The problem with McCain is that he gets votes from the right only by default. I don't believe conservatives or libertarians like him. The middle is fairly clueless. On the left they can choose between Trotsky and Stalin.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:07:56 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: neverdem
"I am against illegal guns," she said,...""the right of the people to keep and bear arms , shall not be infringed.."
So what exactly IS an illegal gun?
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:09:48 PM PDT
by
drc43
(US won despite us... NOW what?... Nancy Pelosi)
To: Old Teufel Hunden
>As resident of the commonwealth of Pa, I’m shocked that gun ownership is this low. My ancedotal evidence indicates that gun ownership is a lot higher per household here than 42%.<
Every questionaire that I have ever filled out, if it has a question:Do you own a firearm? I ALWAYS answer NO. It is none of their damn business if my wife or I own firearms.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:11:07 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
( (Give a person a fish .......Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks)
To: Emperor Palpatine
Youre safe in most of Da Burgh.I try to avoid areas that I know are trouble, but the reason I carry, is some times the thugs travel.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:13:20 PM PDT
by
USS Alaska
(Nuke the terrorist savages - In Honor of Standing Wolf)
To: drc43
So what exactly IS an illegal gun? Those obtained while observing unConstitutional registration and licensing schemes.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:15:33 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: USS Alaska
I dont carry a gun
to kill people. I carry a gun to keep from being killed.
I dont carry a gun to scare people. I carry a gun because sometimes this world can be a scary place.
I dont carry a gun because Im paranoid. I carry a gun because there are real threats in the world.
I dont carry a gun because Im evil. I carry a gun because I have lived long enough to see the evil in the world.
I dont carry a gun because I hate the government. I carry a gun because I understand the limitations of government.
I dont carry a gun because Im angry. I carry a gun so that I dont have to spend the rest of my life hating myself for failing to be prepared.
I dont carry a gun because I want to shoot someone. I carry a gun because I want to die at a ripe old age in my bed, and not on a sidewalk somewhere tomorrow afternoon.
I dont carry a gun because Im a cowboy. I carry a gun because, when I die and go to heaven, I want to be a cowboy.
I dont carry a gun to make me feel like a man. I carry a gun because men know how to take care of themselves and the ones they love.
I dont carry a gun because I feel inadequate. I carry a gun because unarmed and facing three armed thugs, I am inadequate.
I dont carry a gun because I love it. I carry a gun because I love life and the people who make it meaningful to me.
Police Protection is an oxymoron. Free citizens must protect themselves.
Police do not protect you from crime, they usually just investigate the crime after it happens and then call someone in to clean up the mess.
Personally, I carry a gun because Im too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:17:19 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
( (Give a person a fish .......Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks)
To: B4Ranch
Every questionaire that I have ever filled out, if it has a question:Do you own a firearm? I ALWAYS answer NO. It is none of their damn business if my wife or I own firearms. I strongly suspect you are not alone.
PA is a blue state, but not in a traditional sense - especially in the West. There are still lots of pro-life, church-going, gun owners here who remain 'Rats because their great-great-granddaddy and/or the union told them Republicans are the rich people's party, and they have never bothered to think for themselves to test that assumption.
Philly, on the other hand, should be annexed to the socialist paradise known as New Jersey...
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:18:09 PM PDT
by
Ogie Oglethorpe
(2nd Amendment - the reboot button on the U.S. Constitution)
To: B4Ranch
Bravo!
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:21:35 PM PDT
by
Emperor Palpatine
("There is no civility, only politics.")
To: drc43
Correction: Those used or obtained while not observing unConstitutional registration and licensing schemes.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:22:21 PM PDT
by
neverdem
To: Eaker
I heard that those Glocks go off if you look at them crooked.
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posted on
03/26/2008 12:36:17 PM PDT
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: neverdem
The problem with McCain is that he gets votes from the right only by default.He is good on spending, gun rights, fair on abortion, decent on national security.
He ain't my first or second choice. But given the stakes with a Hillary or Obama presidency, he's still a far better choice.
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posted on
03/26/2008 1:12:22 PM PDT
by
dirtboy
To: Emperor Palpatine
You are welcome to use it. Hit View Source and then copy it.
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posted on
03/26/2008 1:15:28 PM PDT
by
B4Ranch
( (Give a person a fish .......Teach a person to use the Internet and they won't bother you for weeks)
To: Ogie Oglethorpe
PA is a blue state, but not in a traditional sense - especially in the West.
You're right about Pa. It's a lot like Missouri in this sense. In Missouri, part of it is like a midwest state and part of it is like a southern state. In Pa, near Philly it is a typical northeastern elitist state, the rest of it is like a typical midwestern state. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people that live in that elitist Philadelphia section that makes this a blue state.
To: neverdem
331 people were shot to death last year, 321 with handguns.So the "huge" increase of murders with "assault weapons" the gun grabbers have been isn't really an increase at all. Barely 3% of murders using guns involved long arms. I'll bet that of those 10 maybe 1 was with an "assault weapon".
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posted on
03/26/2008 4:45:15 PM PDT
by
Blood of Tyrants
(G-d is not a Republican. But Satan is definitely a Democrat.)
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