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What Should We Do about Guns?
nationalreview.com ^ | 1 May, 2013 | John Lott

Posted on 05/01/2013 8:17:49 PM PDT by marktwain

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To: bankwalker

bttt


61 posted on 05/02/2013 7:21:43 PM PDT by Delta 21 (Oh Crap !! Did I say that out loud ??!??)
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To: marktwain
What Should We Do about Guns?

Nothing.


What Should We Do about those who misuse Guns?

A lot...

62 posted on 05/02/2013 7:23:16 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: marktwain
“To me, the debate has always been about safety.

Ha ha!

What should we do about ABORTION?

63 posted on 05/02/2013 7:24:17 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: bankwalker

I just sent it to MY whole e-mail list!


64 posted on 05/02/2013 7:34:44 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: neverdem

Sorry for the incoming.

Felt like the Fight at la Drang ?


65 posted on 05/02/2013 7:44:55 PM PDT by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: neverdem; Yosemitest; butterdezillion; All

HEY-HEY,
HO-HO,
Commie Obama
Has got to GO!

HEY-HEY,
HO-HO,
Commie Obama
Has got to GO!

HEY-HEY,
HO-HO,
Commie Obama
Has got to GO!


66 posted on 05/02/2013 7:51:22 PM PDT by Graewoulf (Traitor John Roberts' Commune-Style Obama'care' violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: MtBaldy

“So Obama is lying to the American people......again. What a surprise.”

If his lips were movin’, YES! He is the F’n LIAR-IN-CHIEF...


67 posted on 05/02/2013 7:58:22 PM PDT by GGpaX4DumpedTea
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To: bankwalker

Yes, pretty good video.


68 posted on 05/02/2013 8:04:50 PM PDT by marktwain (The MSM must die for the Republic to live. Long live the new media!)
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To: george76
Sorry for the incoming.

Felt like the Fight at la Drang ?

Oh no. I was a freshman in Cardinal Hayes High School, the Bronx, in November 1965. I got to the 7th Cav at the tail end in the spring of 72.

69 posted on 05/02/2013 8:10:10 PM PDT by neverdem (Register pressure cookers! /s)
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To: george76

Thanks. Great billboard referenced in one of those links, and the story is a hoot. Most Indians aren’t sensitive or squishy enough to dislike that billboard. Being so sensitive is for upscale folks. ;-)


70 posted on 05/02/2013 8:21:47 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of rotten politics smelled around the planet.)
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To: rockrr
What Should We Do about Guns? Enjoy them! <<

yup..sleep comfortable tonight..for tomorrow is a different day...(think i stole that line from somebody...*S*.....but I don't remember from who?)...do your own DD!

71 posted on 05/02/2013 10:08:02 PM PDT by M-cubed
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To: marktwain; neverdem; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; AuH2ORepublican; Perdogg; GOPsterinMA; ...
What should we do?

Pass the "National 2nd amendment enforcement act" mandating constitutional carry in all states and jurisdictions including NY whether little Mickey Bloomberg likes it not.

I wish there was a way we could get liberals to advocate the repeal of 2nd amendment, if only judges would actually enforce it.

72 posted on 05/02/2013 10:32:56 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: marktwain; neverdem; BillyBoy; fieldmarshaldj; NFHale; AuH2ORepublican; Perdogg; GOPsterinMA; ...

Oh and if we don’t like what happened in CT we should lock up violent scitzos BEFORE they hurt people.

Homicidal lunatics being allowed to roam around is the real and ignored issue with CT.

The left is concerned with what tool the perp used rather than the perp.


73 posted on 05/02/2013 10:36:34 PM PDT by Impy (All in favor of Harry Reid meeting Mr. Mayhem?)
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To: neverdem

Finding they can run roughshod over the American people (a statistically representative plebiscite of all Americans eligible to vote, weighted as normal by electoral college representation, would have comfortably concurred on Romney last November), the Democrat arrogance and their faith in their ability to rabble rouse grows without bound.

If I fault the GOP it is for their failure to scream shame, shame, shame when Democrats do this. Can you imagine what Democrats would scream if, say, GWB had nosed into state legislative elections. They have anointed Barack Obama emperor of the US, or at least tried to (an anointing from hell).


74 posted on 05/03/2013 5:19:42 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: M-cubed

And practice a lot


75 posted on 05/03/2013 5:20:45 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: marktwain

Read this article yesterday on NR’s website; great read, lots of good sense, especially about doing away with the murderous “gun-free” zones.


76 posted on 05/03/2013 5:21:56 AM PDT by NRA1995 (I'd rather be a living "gun culture" member than a dead anti-gun candy-ass.)
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To: Impy

Of the nut case rampaging perpetrators of mass shootings to date, all gave off signs of being nuttier and more deluded than fruit cakes; these were not mere eccentrics or odd balls.

Seems that almost no matter how bad these cases get, unless maybe they are stabbing themselves with knives, the ACLU has intimidated doctors into being satisfied with a pill and a promise.


77 posted on 05/03/2013 5:23:36 AM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (How long before all this "fairness" kills everybody, even the poor it was supposed to help???)
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To: null and void

“NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.”

My tag line.
duffee


78 posted on 05/03/2013 6:13:13 AM PDT by duffee (NO poll tax, NO tax on firearms, ammunition or gun safes. NO gun free zones.)
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To: marktwain
Yes it is a long article and full of facts and logic that show gun control is worthless as a crime preventive measure. However,anti-gunners don't use logic. They cannot be reasoned with because their visceral hatred of guns and gun owners isn't based on logic. It is an outgrowth of their love of government. Anything that challenges the absolute power of government in their minds is blasphemy, not something that is susceptible to reasoned discussion.

They cannot be bargained with. First, they can never be trusted. They say give is this and we won't take that, but immediately after they take one thing they're after the next. Secondly and more fundamentally, THEY HAVE NOTHING WITH WHICH TO BARGAIN. Their "bargains' are all of the form we'll take something form you now and more from you later. All they want is to take our rights. What can they give in return? Slavery. Some bargain.

They feel no remorse. On the contrary, every time they take something from us they feel leation and are energized to take more.

They feel no fear. Why, because they have nothing to lose. If they don't pass restrictive laws, then what are the consequences to them? NOTHING. Lest anyone think that their voting records make them vulnerable to losing an election, consider where the most virulent an pernicious anti-gunners come from - places like New york, MA, NJ, MD, CT, etc. The majority of the voters in those state WANT gun control and what's more they want to cram it up the a$$e$ of the rest of the country.

They feel no pity. Kids killed because of their gun free zone laws? They feel JOY not pity because then the emotion of the foolish masses can be manipulated into supporting more of the stupid laws that contributed to the problem in the first place.

AND THEY NEVER QUIT, EVER. There are only three possible final outcomes.

  1. They get their wish and we become a "country where only the police and military are armed."
  2. Those of us who resist are killed by their mindless jackbooted thugs who will be "just following orders."
  3. we kill enough of them and their sturmabteilungsman to be safe for a while.
But safety never lasts. Look at MA. The majority of massholes hate and fear guns and worship government. 237 years ago the citizens there were just exactly the opposite.
79 posted on 05/03/2013 6:26:36 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: from occupied ga
Fantastic post. You have completely captured the socialists actions, thought processes, and motives. This can be applied to more than the 2nd amendment. This how they act with all of their chosen issues.

In terms of the outcomes I suspect that there are more options but those are the most likely.

80 posted on 05/03/2013 7:54:19 AM PDT by Durus (You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality. Ayn Rand)
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