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To: cracker45
"Thanks Fantasy, saved me from wasting time dealing with Anglian. Wagist has backed off the *tone* of some of their prior stories, but they stand by all their facts."

Here's some more from WAGIST you might enjoy.

Wagist Editor-in-Chief Joshua Vogel

Progressives, it’s time to go buy your guns. by Joshua Vogel September 10, 2011

I’m a liberal (or progressive, if you prefer the term). I’ve always had mixed feelings about gun ownership.

So I spent the next few days thinking about the state of nation, and imaging what America is going to look like in a few years. If Obama stays in power without a liberal Congress, things will be much the same for years to come: political gridlock and slowly worsening conditions for the middle class.

If the Republicans take back the executive branch, then political gridlock is the best we can hope for. If they’re able to get traction with their radical fiscal policies, they’ll keep feeding our money to corporations, banks and the ultra-wealthy. The middle class will shrink. More of us will fall into poverty, and with fewer people buying any products, even the large corporations will start to buckle and fail.

To be fair, most folks were just there to talk about guns, and play with guns, and buy new gadgets to affix to their guns. Their comfort and knowledge of firearms made me feel nervous. I was in store full of 50+ people who didn’t feel at all shy about expressing their distain for liberals and “socialists”. All of them, I’m convinced, would have had no trouble gunning me down in an honest firefight.

I went into that store to buy a gun to protect my family in the event of a riot. I walked out feeling very nervous that if their actually was major social upheaval in the United States, a lot of angry conservatives would have no problem forming an organized militia, and they wouldn’t have a whole lot of sympathy for the scores of unarmed “socialist” progressives out there.

http://www.wagist.com/2011/joshua-vogel/progressives-it%E2%80%99s-time-to-go-buy-your-guns

444 posted on 03/29/2012 11:21:51 PM PDT by anglian
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To: anglian

OK, I read your cheap claptrap, and was not impressed at all! Just more of the same... Buzz off, you haven’t a clue!!

JC


446 posted on 03/30/2012 2:39:25 AM PDT by cracker45
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To: anglian

Yada, yada, yada...If you’re afraid of law-abiding citizens that are concerned with protecting their families by buying guns and ammo, then you are a liberal dupe and ignorant of the basis for the founding of this country. Don’t bother to respond because I’m not interested in anymore of your propaganda and liberal excuses for denying the purposes of the the Bill of Rights!!

JC


448 posted on 03/30/2012 3:20:22 AM PDT by cracker45
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To: anglian

What on earth is that screed supposed to prove? I’m serious; why did you post it? Are you now shilling the liberal POV on guns? Or are you establishing Wagist cred, in pointing out that when they say Trayvon swung on a bus-driver, they’re saying it as bleeding heart libs w’out even a vestige of pro-gun sentiment to color their findings/comments?

It’s more than a little odd when ‘conservatives’ post leftist cant w’out comment, critical or otherwise. It looks like they’re giving free publicity to the other side. Or if not, what am I missing?

‘cant’ defined, for the vocabulary challenged:

1.clichéd talk: boring talk filled with clichés and platitudes

2.hypocritical talk: insincere talk, especially regarding morals or religion

3.jargon: the special language or vocabulary of a particular group, especially a group whom some people look down on

4. Anything liberals say about guns

First three, courtesy Bing Dictionary; last one, mine.


450 posted on 03/30/2012 7:55:28 AM PDT by Fantasywriter
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