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Think tank: If each of us carried a gun . . .
Times Online (London, UK) ^ | December 8, 2008 | Richard Munday

Posted on 12/08/2008 12:11:58 PM PST by libstripper

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To: rumraisin
Yes, as long as it's 'everybody trained to carry a gun. Would you want to be sitting next to somebody like that jerk in NY who shot himself in the leg?

Well cops should certainly get some training.

41 posted on 12/08/2008 3:31:12 PM PST by Oztrich Boy (This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel - Horace Walpole)
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To: ZULU
A free people ALWAYS had the right to arms.

SLAVES never did - regardless of the “format” of their servitude.

It sounds almost like you are equating our modern welfare state - which traps poor people in the urban ghettos of cities with reactionary gun control laws and make them Wards Of The State - to slavery.

Yep.

42 posted on 12/08/2008 3:45:59 PM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Illegal Immigration is not about the immigration. Gun control is not about the guns.)
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To: nodumbblonde

I checked out your homepage, and seeing some of the names listed there made me a little sad.


43 posted on 12/08/2008 8:57:16 PM PST by wastedyears ("Al Gore is an apostle of arrogance." - Vaclav Klaus, Pres. of Czech Republic)
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To: libstripper
Victorian gun crime - the shocking story
44 posted on 12/08/2008 10:16:16 PM PST by smokingfrog (I'll go green when they plant me in the ground.)
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To: wastedyears

I know, it made me sad to have to put some of them on there. :(

And, unfortunately, it’s just a starter list. :/


45 posted on 12/09/2008 6:56:54 AM PST by nodumbblonde (Apologies: Due to the coming economic crisis, I've had to let my tagline go.)
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To: Girdyourloins

That’s one of the points I made to my son’s friends: Ever hear of a massacre at a gun show?

Which also blows another lib theory out of the water: If the problem is guns and/or access to guns, you should be reading “Ho-hum, Yet Another Massacre at a Gun Show” in the paper every day.


46 posted on 12/09/2008 7:08:11 AM PST by nodumbblonde (Apologies: Due to the coming economic crisis, I've had to let my tagline go.)
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To: Girdyourloins

Why do most mass shootings happen in ‘Gun-Free’ zones?
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I have often wondered about that! Saturday my wife and I were with a group of over twenty people taking the training course for a South Carolina concealed weapons permit. As part of the requirements we all went out to a small firing range and fired thirty rounds each to show that we were capable of hitting what we aimed at. As we took turns firing in groups of five I wondered just why some nutcase has never taken the opportunity to come to one of these training sessions and gun down a few helpless victims. Gosh, I just can’t figure it out.
The other thing I can’ figure out is why those people who think we are safer without guns don’t put up a sign in front of their own homes saying that there are no guns allowed on the premises.


47 posted on 12/09/2008 7:20:42 AM PST by RipSawyer (Great Grandpa was a Confederate soldier from the cradle of secession.)
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To: libstripper
The Mumbai massacre could happen in London tomorrow; but probably it could not have happened to Londoners 100 years ago.

In January 1909 two such anarchists, lately come from an attempt to blow up the president of France, tried to commit a robbery in north London, armed with automatic pistols. Edwardian Londoners, however, shot back – and the anarchists were pursued through the streets by a spontaneous hue-and-cry. The police, who could not find the key to their own gun cupboard, borrowed at least four pistols from passers-by, while other citizens armed with revolvers and shotguns preferred to use their weapons themselves to bring the assailants down.

OMG - the Brits are "getting it". It's about damn time...

48 posted on 12/09/2008 7:36:55 AM PST by GOPJ (Perverse incentives birth nasty unintended consequences.)
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To: RipSawyer
The other thing I can’ figure out is why those people who think we are safer without guns don’t put up a sign in front of their own homes saying that there are no guns allowed on the premises.

Whoa - great comment. Or better yet, we could publish the names and addresses of people for gun control.

Let the crooks "figure" out what to do with the information... ( My guess is that like "Rosie" and the other Hollywood BIGS, these people have very expensive security systems and are not concerned about the consequences of their anti-gun beliefs on citizens not able to spend hundred's of thousands on similar systems.)

49 posted on 12/09/2008 7:42:51 AM PST by GOPJ (Perverse incentives birth nasty unintended consequences.)
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To: libstripper

Bump!


50 posted on 12/09/2008 8:53:12 AM PST by Mr. Silverback ("[Palin] has not even lived in the Lower 48 since 1987. Come on! Really!" --Polybius)
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To: Reflex

Ummm...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145532/posts


51 posted on 12/09/2008 8:58:57 AM PST by SendShaqtoIraq
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To: bamahead

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52 posted on 12/09/2008 9:01:13 AM PST by KoRn
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To: rumraisin
Would you want to be sitting next to somebody like that jerk in NY who shot himself in the leg?

Over time, what would happen is Dad or Mom will teach their children how to handle a gun. They will learn respect for it and they will know how to use it.

I have been shooting since I was five. I have never done anything wrong. I have been plenty mad at people, but I have never used it in offense. I have learned to use it for defensive purposes only and offensively to put food on the table. Not saying all people will go by that, but I will bet they will think twice about doing something stupid, because they know somebody else has a gun.

Yes, people will chamber rounds and will accidentally shoot themselves or others; but they will learn and overall it may mean less people dead. Add up the victims of crimes and the bombings as mentioned in this thread, and my bet is it will be more people dead.

An armed society is a polite society.

53 posted on 12/09/2008 9:06:06 AM PST by do the dhue (They've got us surrounded again. The poor bastards. General Creighton Abrams)
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To: libstripper

this is unthinkable.


54 posted on 12/09/2008 10:22:21 AM PST by glide625
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To: rumraisin
"Yes, as long as it's 'everybody trained to carry a gun. Would you want to be sitting next to somebody like that jerk in NY who shot himself in the leg?"

Are you referring to this guy?....

*NYPD detective who accidentally shot himself wins $4.5M*

http://www.policeone.com/treatment/articles/1760970-NYPD-detective-who-accidentally-shot-himself-wins-4-5M/

55 posted on 12/09/2008 10:27:54 AM PST by Deaf Smith
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To: libstripper

The Times is a great newspaper. They had a hilarious satire about Obama back in August, probably posted here somewhere.


56 posted on 12/09/2008 10:50:10 AM PST by ksm1
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To: libstripper
If every American were armed, that would be three hundred million cops on the streets. Of course, a few million of them would be Chicago cops.
57 posted on 12/09/2008 10:51:44 AM PST by dbz77
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To: Deaf Smith
*NYPD detective who accidentally shot himself wins $4.5M* http://www.policeone.com/treatment/articles/1760970-NYPD-detective-who-accidentally-shot-himself-wins-4-5M/
So what law did Plaxico Burress break, exactly?
58 posted on 12/09/2008 10:53:20 AM PST by dbz77
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To: Girdyourloins

“Why do most mass shootings happen in ‘Gun-Free’ zones?”

Because the killers do not want their targets shooting back at them.


59 posted on 12/09/2008 12:12:59 PM PST by 2CAVTrooper
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To: Dead Corpse
We have NIMBies who move in next door to a firing range, then get them shut down because of noise or environmental lead.

Heresy. Oh, how I truly wish I could have a firearms range in my backyard...
60 posted on 12/09/2008 12:16:05 PM PST by JamesP81 (I shall give their President the same respect they gave mine.)
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