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Lax U.S. gun control is a benefit to terrorists (Dropkick Computer Alert)
Detroit News ^ | 12-30-01 | Dan(not the man) Thomasson

Posted on 12/30/2001 11:02:35 AM PST by Dan from Michigan

Edited on 05/07/2004 7:08:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

After Sept. 11, many Americans did a highly predictable thing. They bought at least one gun to make certain they could protect their families, their property and themselves from terrorists who might be lurking nearby.

FBI statistics revealed that firearms sales jumped by as much as 22 percent right after the attacks, peaking in October with more than 1 million pistols, shotguns and assault rifles sold. There is now, it seems, a lethal weapon (not counting knives and ball bats) for every man, woman and child in the United States. How comforting.


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To: AnnaZ; HangFire; Lady Jenn; Kithlyara; AZ Spartacus; feinswinesuksass; abigail2; AnneJustice4All...
Belles 'n' Beaux BUMP!!!

(AZ Spartacus..."wave" if you're lurking. **g**)

21 posted on 12/30/2001 12:13:09 PM PST by Mercuria
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To: Mercuria
"Bring on those airliners aimed at our front porches and public buildings. Just try and hit us with a cloud of germs or chemicals or a dirty bomb filled with radioactive material. Ha! We Americans are ready. We will just shoot them. Nothing like a load of buckshot to stop an anthrax letter or a dose of 9 millimeter justice to foil a bomb."

Lemme get this straight; people actually pay for this rag & the garbage they print therein?
That right?

...it's no wonder to me Detroit was, is, & shall remain forevermore the consummate sewer of the universe.

22 posted on 12/30/2001 12:35:32 PM PST by Landru
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To: Dan from Michigan
Lax U.S. gun control is a benefit to terrorists By Dan K. Thomasson

"Own a gun? You're a terrorist," says Dan Thomasson.

23 posted on 12/30/2001 12:40:20 PM PST by Liberal Classic
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To: Landru ; Mercuria
The Detroit News is actually the more CONSERVATIVE paper(not really since Thomas Bray retired). If you think this is bad, try the Free Press. The News is RINO. The Free Press is Klintonian.

At least the News also printed the John Lott article.

24 posted on 12/30/2001 12:43:15 PM PST by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan
"They used boxcutters, son. You liars in the ASD(Anti self-defense) movement aren't getting through to the public. They are seeing right through you. That's why your buddy Gore lost."

~sigh~
Yea-yea...
Wasn't it ever neat.
This sycophant clown & his ilk are pathetic garden-variety COMMUNISTS; out to eliminate the last remaining resistance to their totalitarian pipe dream.
A Socialist-Worker's Paradise pipe dream that's dead as a doornail, I might add.

...come & take it from me yourself; you cowardly pinheaded pansy-assed pinko-punk with a pen.

25 posted on 12/30/2001 12:44:45 PM PST by Landru
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To: Dan from Michigan
Loved the "Dropkick Computer Alert"!

Not much more you can say than jagdorks will be jagdorks - too bad he shares your given name!

26 posted on 12/30/2001 12:53:15 PM PST by facedown
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To: Dan from Michigan
Bring on those airliners aimed at our front porches...

Snotty bastard.

Never mind...

Never mind that the one attack that was stopped on Sept. 11 was stopped by "the people."

Not the government, not the military, not the police, but the "people" that the Second Ammendment refers to.

27 posted on 12/30/2001 12:53:20 PM PST by BikerTrash
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To: Dan from Michigan

28 posted on 12/30/2001 12:54:44 PM PST by aomagrat
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To: Dan from Michigan
One of the more difficult things for me?
Was staying current with just who in the hell was behind these rags pulling the strings.
Especially the ones I'd have described as, "Conservative" throughout most of my adult life?

I mean, in 1960 Colonel McCormick's Chicago Tribune was about as Right as one could get, correct?
Well, Colonel McCormick's been dead for years; while, this image of his paper?
Lived on within many pople's minds -- regardless the current reality.
For lack of a better word then, I believe that's called a schism.
Presicely what's happened to an overwhelming number of registered Democrats; who continue to support a socialist extreme-Leftist Party which isn't, "Democratic" a'tall.

...trust no US Lamestream media ever, anymore; for they're liars one & all.

29 posted on 12/30/2001 1:04:04 PM PST by Landru
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To: Dan from Michigan
Good rebuttals, Dan. You're a powerful voice for gun owners. But expect this drumbeat to continue. It's the gun-stealers' latest talking point. I expect it took Sarah Brady and her gun-hating Svengalis two or three hours to come up with this specious "linkage." It'll work on the soccer moms. But that is a group that's never been noted for its intellectual horsepower.
30 posted on 12/30/2001 1:04:56 PM PST by IronJack
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To: Dan from Michigan
Thomasson doesn't get it. I keep my guns for people like him and the politicians he votes for. I hope he never learns.
31 posted on 12/30/2001 1:14:49 PM PST by Twodees
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To: Mercuria
Dan {the author} it seems is a sandwhich short of a picnic. Typical liberal gibberish of extremes being used to out weigh the probable.
32 posted on 12/30/2001 1:23:59 PM PST by cva66snipe
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To: Mercuria
BTTT ... cool. Gunowner = terrorist. I always wanted another moniker ... was kinda' getting tired of "gunowner."
33 posted on 12/30/2001 1:30:36 PM PST by 2Trievers
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To: blackie
Molon Labe !!

I have seen this several times, could you tell me what it means?

34 posted on 12/30/2001 1:34:22 PM PST by Not now, Not ever!
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To: Dan from Michigan
Terrorism can come in many forms.I sleep better knowing there is a gun in the house(without a trigger lock)!
35 posted on 12/30/2001 1:39:04 PM PST by INSENSITIVE GUY
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To: Dan from Michigan
At least the News also printed the John Lott article.

Why do I get the feeling they did a cut and paste on Prof. Lott's work and never read it?

36 posted on 12/30/2001 1:39:19 PM PST by Not now, Not ever!
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To: Not now, Not ever!
Molon Labe = Come and take them
37 posted on 12/30/2001 1:46:19 PM PST by Double Tap
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To: Dan from Michigan
I think what he is trying to say is the terrorists are buying AK47s for $300 and selling at gun shows for $50 and sending the money to the STARVING TERRORIST FUND in Afganistan.

It doesn't matter that his gibberish is a lie. Repeat a lie long enough and it becomes impossible to refute but we must continue to pound them when we can.

38 posted on 12/30/2001 2:14:39 PM PST by tubebender
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To: Mercuria
Thank you for the Ping Lady Mecuria J

Here's a BRAAD Bump!
39 posted on 12/30/2001 2:18:58 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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To: Mercuria
BRAAD
Bump!
40 posted on 12/30/2001 2:21:28 PM PST by Fiddlstix
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