Huh? I guess I'm missing the gun symbology there... can somebody help me with this?
Posted on 08/18/2010 6:32:00 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA
PHOENIX -- In the red rock and sand of the Arizona desert, just past the retirement villages and golf greens that have made this sun-worshipping city famous, sits the biggest public shooting range in the United States.
Not far away are the Wal-Marts where Arizonans pay Sun City retirees to wait in line when a new ammo shipment arrives, lest the supply run out. Residents have the right to carry handguns openly, and starting last month residents who have no criminal records and are at least 21 also are able to carry concealed weapons just about anywhere, without the bother of getting a permit.
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McCain and Tester declined requests for interviews. But their bill reflects a philosophy that seems part of the American West's genome. Even Arizona's flag, based on a design created by the team captain of the former territory's rifle team during a national rifle match almost a hundred years ago, symbolizes the way guns are woven into the state's politics and culture, whether for self-defense or sport.
"You think golf forces you to focus -- try holding a deadly weapon in your hand," says Pamela Gorman, who helped ease gun laws as a state senator and is running for Congress.
Gorman, who frets that no one makes stylish holsters for her Glock .45, ran a campaign ad showcasing her skills with a machine gun. The ad was mocked by MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, but Gorman says she has never flinched from backing the Second Amendment and likes to talk of bonding at the range with her 14-year-old son, Ryan, and his AR-15 rifle.
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I will bet a lot of those soccer moms in DC know their way around a gun.
I bought an AR-15 carbine soon after Obastard was elected. As soon as my then 7 year old daughter saw it, she declared that it would be HER rifle. She has fired it since then and isn’t a bit afraid of it.
I mean when they're not trashing the second amendment, Wal Mart and old people.
Hussein wants to take the guns away. Thank God he doesnt have the votes in congress.
Huh? I guess I'm missing the gun symbology there... can somebody help me with this?
Pretty sure that's not the only place he doesn't have the votes...
Amen
Come 2011 Hussein won’t be able to pass any more socialist programs.
She is past Hello Kitty. But she would live the colors.
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