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Why Do Liberals Bleed?
American Thinker ^ | June 17, 2009 | Robin of Berkley

Posted on 06/17/2009 1:17:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber

I've been thinking about learning how to fire a gun, maybe even buying one. Now if you are a lifelong conservative, Red State dweller, and NRA member, you might be thinking, "Big yawn. What's next? She'll be telling us what she had for breakfast?"

So let me try to convey to you the enormousness, the Alice in Wonderland quality of my even posing the question, something I've never, ever considered in my life. No one I know owns a gun. I've never seen a gun (well on a holster of a police officer but I never wanted to get up close and personal with it). I have given lots of good money over the years for gun control. Learning to fire a gun seems as ludicrous as deciding to take up brain surgery.

But, I am rethinking absolutely everything.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Editorial
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; liberals; robinofberkeley; robinofberkley
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Better late than never!
1 posted on 06/17/2009 1:17:11 PM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

You might need it with the Obolution coming


2 posted on 06/17/2009 1:21:15 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: MtnClimber

Happiness is a warm gun. Have you hugged yours today? And when it’s 10 P.M., do you know where your gun is? Please don’t let a picture of your gun end up on a milk carton.


3 posted on 06/17/2009 1:23:20 PM PDT by Enterprise (When they come for your guns and ammo, give them the ammo first.)
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To: Enterprise

Gun control is a nice, tight group.


4 posted on 06/17/2009 1:24:25 PM PDT by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: GeronL

Good luck to her getting a CCW permit in Berkley! A gun locked up at home won’t protect her from being mugged at lunch again.


5 posted on 06/17/2009 1:25:28 PM PDT by MtnClimber (Bernard Madoff's ponzi scheme looks remarkably similar to the way Social Security works)
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To: Enterprise

LOL;)


6 posted on 06/17/2009 1:26:35 PM PDT by Frank_2001
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To: MtnClimber

Taser? Pepper spray??

Do they need a CCW in Berkeley to carry a Supersoaker filled with pepper spray??


7 posted on 06/17/2009 1:26:45 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: MtnClimber

My dear, the reason that your [previous] ideology was absolutely 180 degrees out of phase with reality is that it is based in the “Spirit of Error”, ie, it serves the father of lies, and has no truth in it. It is not based in truth nor in reality.


8 posted on 06/17/2009 1:33:22 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: GeronL

All sarcasm aside, IIRC California cities require permits for mace or pepper spray.


9 posted on 06/17/2009 1:33:30 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: Spktyr

good lord.

I think I can buy a taser at the mall here in TX


10 posted on 06/17/2009 1:35:07 PM PDT by GeronL (http://libertyfic.proboards.com <----go there now,----> tyrannysentinel.blogspot.com)
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To: Spktyr

I think the same is true for Chicago.


11 posted on 06/17/2009 1:35:51 PM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
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To: MtnClimber

So, Robin gets mugged and is thing of being Conservative?

She did learn what Mao taught - “(Political) power grows out of the berrel of a gun”.


12 posted on 06/17/2009 1:37:04 PM PDT by ASOC (Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
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To: GeronL

“I think I can buy a taser at the mall here in TX.”

Actually, in a kiosk in a mall.


13 posted on 06/17/2009 1:38:59 PM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: MtnClimber
"Learning to fire a gun seems as ludicrous as deciding to take up brain surgery.

I felt the same way about toasters before I took the plunge and bought one.

14 posted on 06/17/2009 1:41:12 PM PDT by telebob
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To: texmexis best

“I think I can buy a taser at the mall here in TX.”

Or from a pushcart in a mall.

I haven’t yet seen them sold in vending machines in a mall, but you never know. this is Texas after all.


15 posted on 06/17/2009 1:41:55 PM PDT by texmexis best (uency)
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To: MtnClimber

Bump


16 posted on 06/17/2009 1:44:04 PM PDT by School of Rational Thought (I once had an awkward moment just to see how it felt.)
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To: MtnClimber
Great piece. Yes, the cliche is true - she's a liberal who got mugged. Time to grow up.

So what I realized during the talk show is that in places like Berkeley, only the criminals have the power. Not only do they have the power of guns, they are supported by several thousand brainwashed zombies who give the green light to criminals because they are the victims of someone else's "privilege" and "supremacy" and "imperialism."

Such as her "friend" here:

Witness the response of a left wing friend, Judy, when I told her I was mugged. She said, and I quote, "I don't think what you went through was so bad. And anyway he was a victim too."

You can be so open-minded that your brains fall out. But as the author points out, once this mind-set becomes institutionalized any resistance becomes a worse offense than the crime. You're not just threatening the criminal by resisting, you're threatening the comfortable assumptions of your neighbor that she's really safe, safe, that is, except for all this violence, which she deserves. These people are suicidal, a suicide that loves company.

We come into this world alone, and we will leave it alone. When we live our lives in the back seat of the car expecting Daddy to drive us, we only have a child's view of the world.

Oh, she's conservative all right. The rest will follow. I'd happily teach her to shoot, but her neighbors would likely vote to convict her if she defended herself. Get. Out.

17 posted on 06/17/2009 1:45:26 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: MtnClimber

The comments made a good point:
Don’t get a gun unless you’re willing to kill another human being to defend yourself. Hesitation can kill you and your family.


18 posted on 06/17/2009 1:45:59 PM PDT by Little Ray (Do we have a Plan B?)
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To: GeronL

You can buy a Tazer or other electric stun weapon in a department store in Texas. :D

I should know, I just bought one at Fry’s and saw one at Walmart.


19 posted on 06/17/2009 1:46:09 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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To: texmexis best

And they’ve been spotted in 7-11s, too.

Weirdest thing ever seen in a Texas 7-11: Bear spray.


20 posted on 06/17/2009 1:46:54 PM PDT by Spktyr (Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
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