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Students who identified as Democrats were twice as likely to fear gun violence as those who were not, the study found.

I find that to be a very intriguing revelation. Why would that be? Could it be fear-mongering demagoguery against guns among Democrats to explain the otherwise inexplicable disparity?

1 posted on 01/16/2013 6:58:22 PM PST by lbryce
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To: lbryce; MeganC
Count me in as a young person who already has them.

That is, until I lost them in that tragic boating white water rafting incident.

2 posted on 01/16/2013 7:02:46 PM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.-Sarah Palin)
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This is not a surprise at all.

I have seen lots of posts about incremental gun control. The slow but steady push to limit our right to own guns and reduce the number of guns in private hands. Which is exactly what the Dem/libs have been doing for decades now. And this is how it has been working out in the last two decades...

If the lefties keep pushing gun control this way in another two decades one out of two Americans may be gun owners instead of one out of three.

MOLON LAVE!

6 posted on 01/16/2013 7:37:02 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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“I think more and more college students have been waking up to this reality in the past five years since Virginia tech and they don’t want it.”

and yet, they not once, but TWICE overwhelmingly voted for that POS 0bama.

Over-educated damn fools! ;)


7 posted on 01/16/2013 7:38:14 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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Taking guns away from people is endangering their lives.
Police cannot prevent crime or assaults they can only scribe a chalkline around your body.
You have to protect yourself.


8 posted on 01/16/2013 7:42:32 PM PST by BuffaloJack (Children, pets, and slaves get taken care of. Free Men take care of themselves.)
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Sixty percent of high school and college students say they plan on owning guns at a later stage in life,

This is good news, because even THEY get it. I think, even though kids aren't taught the history of socialism/communism in the public schools these days (the teachers union doesn't want to expose itself), they still understand the right of self defense - against ANYONE who tries to oppress them or deny them of their constitutional right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

9 posted on 01/16/2013 7:42:38 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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Wonder how many people who happily voted for Obama are now frantically buying firearms. They probably won't make the connection.
11 posted on 01/16/2013 7:46:44 PM PST by dhs12345
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To: lbryce
I find that to be a very intriguing revelation. Why would that be? Could it be fear-mongering demagoguery against guns among Democrats to explain the otherwise inexplicable disparity?

Democrats are victims of their own self afflicted wounds. They've all screwed up their lives somehow, and they hate anyone who hasn't. (Notice how they cannot tolerate anyone else being happy with their lives.) The democrat base consists of communists, socialists (who want to be cared for by others), homosexuals, welfare queens, felons, race baiters, illegals, etc.
Anyway, they don't fear other people with guns as much as they fear themselves with a gun. They may overcompensate with elitism, but deep inside they have a serious self loathing.

12 posted on 01/16/2013 7:52:39 PM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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Thanks to Granny we are comfortable around firearms and we eat every day.


13 posted on 01/16/2013 8:15:03 PM PST by Lady Jag (If you can't make them see the light, let them feel the heat. - Reagan)
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Think of the Democrats you know. They are generally prone to emotion over reason.


16 posted on 01/16/2013 8:36:17 PM PST by Trod Upon (Civilian disarmament is the precursor to democide.)
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>>> “With every single spree killing we’ve seen in this nation in the past twenty years, with every sexual assault that takes place, nine every day on college campuses, with every robbery report we have, with every campus that goes on lockdown, these gun free zones are proven to be indefensible and impractical,” he said.

>>> “College campuses put pictures on the door and expect psychopaths to abide by them,” he continued. “I think more and more college students have been waking up to this reality in the past five years since Virginia tech and they don’t want it.”

No kidding! WTH believes a plotting mass shooter turns aside at the stupid picture of a gun with a red slash over it? Come on - really, people? When has that ever happened?

Instead it creates a shooting gallery for the coward who, nine times out of ten, takes his own life as soon as a good guy with a gun of his own finally arrives to the scene of the carnage.


22 posted on 01/16/2013 11:50:18 PM PST by Titan Magroyne (What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving.)
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Mental illness? Is this correlated with other phobias/fears? Inability to mature and take responsibility?


24 posted on 01/17/2013 5:37:25 AM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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The more King Obama’s cronies try to double down, the more young people like me will arm themselves. I decided to buy my first gun after Obama won the election, and now that he’s trying to disarm the country, I’m going to my first gun show this weekend to pick up something a bit more suited to home defense.


26 posted on 01/17/2013 6:15:46 AM PST by Cato in PA (Land of the free and the home of the brave? Wrong on both counts.)
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My college students ( and me too) were armed to the teeth before they left home. Survey that Mr Genius Surveyor.


33 posted on 01/17/2013 11:05:11 AM PST by cherokee1 (skip the names---just kick the buttz)
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