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Gun culture appeals to some, but I'll pass(MO)
kansascity.com ^ | 24 January, 2010 | Lewis Diuguid

Posted on 01/25/2010 3:49:33 AM PST by marktwain

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The author has a serious problem with bigotry and understanding basic cause and effect.
1 posted on 01/25/2010 3:49:34 AM PST by marktwain
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Guns aren't for everyone.

He doesn't try to keep me from owning one, and I won't force him to own one.

2 posted on 01/25/2010 3:51:25 AM PST by Lazamataz (Hey Obama, Can You Hear Me Now....? GOOOOoood......)
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requiring that we load steel balls and powder.

HUH???? STEEL balls???

Either the author wasn't paying attention, or he's lying through his rotten teeth.

3 posted on 01/25/2010 3:52:34 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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To: marktwain

I have noticed that many liberals seem to be bigots and have zero understanding of the cause and effect thingy.


4 posted on 01/25/2010 3:55:03 AM PST by jospehm20
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They make some people feel secure, thinking guns offer “protection.”

No ... it's not just "feeling" better, and it's not just scare-quoted illusion of protection ... the protection is quite real, evidenced by a large number of dead and wounded criminals, and thwarted crimes. Dude is definitely not paying attention.

5 posted on 01/25/2010 3:56:26 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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Ditto.

This guy is an idiot.


6 posted on 01/25/2010 3:57:58 AM PST by benewton (Life sucks, then you die)
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Heat and life bled out of him — all caused by a gun. violent criminal.

Is there anything worthwhile in the rest of the piece? The author's command of facts and logic is clearly deficient.

7 posted on 01/25/2010 3:58:07 AM PST by ArrogantBustard (Western Civilization is Aborting, Buggering, and Contracepting itself out of existence.)
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“But my experience also has been that guns get used to intimidate, threaten, injure and kill people.”
So do cars.
This fool is also a racist. Look at the crime stats to see which race is misusing firearms.


8 posted on 01/25/2010 3:58:22 AM PST by Scotsman will be Free (11C - Indirect fire, infantry - High angle hell - We will bring you, FIRE)
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Heat and life bled out of him — all caused by a gun.
He is wrong, the man’s death was caused by a criminal.


9 posted on 01/25/2010 3:59:10 AM PST by Paperpusher
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To: Kent1957

Delusional. Probably best that he be kept from gun ownership.


10 posted on 01/25/2010 4:03:01 AM PST by Eric in the Ozarks (Impeachment !)
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I grew up with guns, and this place was very familiar to me

I stopped reading right about here. This is like frontloading a conversation about Obama with, "I have several black friends, but..."

11 posted on 01/25/2010 4:03:36 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: jospehm20

Well they’tr part of the ellielite.


12 posted on 01/25/2010 4:04:52 AM PST by Oztrich Boy (Don't panic, the lunatics are in charge and have everything in hand.)
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YOU CAN’T TAKE A PASS ON THE SECOND AMENDMENT ANY MORE THAN YOU CAN TAKE A PASS ON THE FIRST AMENDMENT... IS THIS AUTHOR SOME GAY COMMIE?

LLS


13 posted on 01/25/2010 4:13:11 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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To: ArrogantBustard

Break into my home and I’ll show you 240 gr of .45 caliber protection right in the middle of your forehead and two in your chest.

LLS


14 posted on 01/25/2010 4:14:35 AM PST by LibLieSlayer (hussama will never be my president... NEVER!)
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Wow, you’re so cool.


15 posted on 01/25/2010 4:24:09 AM PST by awake-n-angry
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Just a typical Louis DooGood article. As the KC Red Star’s affirmative action editorialist, he is immune to charges of racism and incompetence.


16 posted on 01/25/2010 4:27:40 AM PST by Second Amendment First
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Yep. He’s look for another pay cut.

http://cancelthebee.blogspot.com/2009/03/kansas-city-star-demotes-controversial.html


17 posted on 01/25/2010 4:35:57 AM PST by wolfcreek (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lsd7DGqVSIc)
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"guns require a lot of maintenance."

That's when the big flashing neon "IDIOT" light went off.

18 posted on 01/25/2010 4:37:47 AM PST by SnuffaBolshevik
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An effective way to greet such fools is to suggest that their “tangible” arguments, which seldom are, are just a cover for their having a phobic fear of loud, unexpected noises.

It sounds strange until you think about it, but there are lots of people that have a deep seated, even instinctual phobia of loud and unexpected noises. Some even call it one of the two “natural” phobias, the fear of falling being the other one.

http://www.phobiagone.com/phobias/loud_noises.php

Typical things that can trigger fears & phobias of loud noises.

- Balloons - fear of them popping or making a loud noise.
- Party poppers.
- Fireworks.
- Pyrotechnics used in theater productions, concerts etc.
- Loud noises, cars back firing, heavy things being dropped.
- Thunder and lightning.

And of course, gunfire. More importantly, the *anticipation* of gunfire.

There’s a joke about an amateur golfer who is tricked into playing a game for money with a semi-pro. So the amateur offers to trade several handicap points for a “three bag” handicap. Confident of his skills, the semi-pro agrees, though he doesn’t know what that means. But just before he tees off on the first hole, the amateur pops a paper bag right behind him, and he badly slices.

Then the amateur says, “That’s one bag.” For the rest of the game, the semi-pro can’t hit a ball to save his life, out of the anticipation of another paper bag being popped.

In the real world, people with loud and unexpected noise phobias are pretty miserable. Claustrophobics can avoid confined spaces and Coulrophobics can avoid clowns. But loud and unexpected noises can be anywhere.

For them, guns must be terrifying when they see them, because to them they are first and foremost “noisemakers”. Which to them must be like someone with a deep phobia of snakes seeing someone enter the room with a pet snake about their shoulders.

Their heart starts to pound, they break out in a cold sweat, they want to run away, to flee in terror. And most of all, they cannot reason their fear away. It has control over them.

It is no surprise they want to ban guns. So the big question is what percentage of the gun control movement has people for whom this is the primary motivation?

But since this is likely the case, whenever some anti-gun advocate spouts off, the question has to be raised: Do you want to ban guns, or do you want to ban loud and unexpected noises?


19 posted on 01/25/2010 4:40:24 AM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: wolfcreek

Thank you for that info, as I haven’t followed Looee much since moving from the KC area. I am surprised; I didn’t think they would ever demote him. My good news for the day. He must hate having to work for a white woman; probably a good thing he doesn’t own a gun.


20 posted on 01/25/2010 4:48:28 AM PST by Second Amendment First
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