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Too many guns, or not enough?
Badray

Posted on 08/29/2002 12:57:32 PM PDT by Badray

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Look at the case of Rep Suzanna Gratia Hupp whose parents were gunned down at a restaurant in Texas. She went on to get elected to fight for and get concealed carry laws passed so that people could protect themselves. Similar circumstances and totally opposite reactions. I guess the difference is because of thinking versus feeling through life.
1 posted on 08/29/2002 12:57:32 PM PDT by Badray
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To: Dukie; bloodmeridian; smokeyb
Pinging for my annual vanity post.
2 posted on 08/29/2002 12:59:29 PM PDT by Badray
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To: Jeff Head; GEC; cyn
Pinging for my annual vanity post.
3 posted on 08/29/2002 1:00:53 PM PDT by Badray
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To: Joe Brower; 45Auto
Pinging for my annual vanity post.
4 posted on 08/29/2002 1:02:31 PM PDT by Badray
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To: Badray
I just purchased a handgun and plan on excersing my right to carry it. (with legal permit of course).
I agree more citizens should carry weapons. But I fear we are losing this battle. Guess I will someday carry one illegally then>
5 posted on 08/29/2002 1:06:23 PM PDT by BoringOregon
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To: Badray
I would pay money to see Rep. Hupp go up against Rep. McCarthy in a debate on gun laws...
6 posted on 08/29/2002 1:07:37 PM PDT by Chemist_Geek
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To: Badray; *bang_list
A-yep.

I won't speak for anyone else, but if I had been there on that day, I'll wager I'd have dropped the goblin ricky-tick, saved a lot of lives, and then had to boogie in an attempt to not be jailed myself for defending my own life and the lives of others.

Individual mileage will vary.


7 posted on 08/29/2002 1:11:57 PM PDT by Joe Brower
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To: Badray
An armed society is a polite society.
8 posted on 08/29/2002 1:12:12 PM PDT by bloodmeridian
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To: Badray
You are spot on. There cannot be too many guns in the hands of law abiding citizens.

Next to our faith in God as a people, it is the only thing standing between us and total tyranny ... despite misguided, useful idiots like some of those you saw on the show.

BLOAT and best regards!

9 posted on 08/29/2002 1:14:55 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Jeff Head
There cannot be too many guns in the hands of law abiding citizens.

There's no such thing as too many guns or too much ammunition.

10 posted on 08/29/2002 1:43:35 PM PDT by rllngrk33
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To: rllngrk33
Amen.

80+ million gun onwers.

250,000,000+ guns in their hands.

2,000,000,000 rounds of ammos un-expended.

(All unofficial claims I have heard bandied about, but if anything they are probably low).

Still not enough.

11 posted on 08/29/2002 1:48:13 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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12 posted on 08/29/2002 1:51:02 PM PDT by Dick Bachert
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To: Badray
'"I want to go up to the closest white person and say, 'You can't understand this, it's a black thing,' and then slap him, just for my mental health," Charles Barron, a member of the New York City Council, told the crowd.'
13 posted on 08/29/2002 1:54:11 PM PDT by M. T. Cicero II
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I just purchased a handgun and plan on excersing my right to carry it. (with legal permit of course).

Legal permit, eh. Do you mean this one?

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

infringe: 2. to encroach or trespass, to break, weaken.

encroach: 2.to trespass upon the property, domain, or rights of another esp. stealthily or by gradual advances.

Do you feel permits are permitted by the Constitution? Do you feel you surrender or weaken your rights in the process of getting a permit to exercise a Constitutional right?

Just curious, as the "with permits" is now accepted jargon of almost everyone supporting the second ammendment, but a plain reading seems to make it quite clear such permits are exactly what the Founders were opposed to, and the Constitution prohibits.

14 posted on 08/29/2002 1:54:32 PM PDT by Jack Black
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To: Jack Black
Amen.

A permit means they give you PERMIssion.

By so doing they attempt to establish their (the governments) supremacy on this issue where they are not supreme. The Constitution Bill of Rights merely enumerates something which the Creator is the surpeme over.

BLOAT!

16 posted on 08/29/2002 2:03:14 PM PDT by Jeff Head
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To: Badray
Good use of an annual vanity. Bravo.
17 posted on 08/29/2002 2:03:44 PM PDT by AUgrad
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To: BoringOregon
"I just purchased a handgun and plan on excersing my right to carry it. (with legal permit of course)."

Congrats on getting a firearm. If you don't mind me asking, what did you get? I have my PA carry permit and I do carry it whenever I go out, but it just galls me to get permission from a bureaucrat to exercise my rights.

18 posted on 08/29/2002 2:47:28 PM PDT by Badray
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I would pay money to see Rep. Hupp go up against Rep. McCarthy in a debate on gun laws..."

I have heard Hupp at the AIMM in DC in 2000 and McCarthy in various spots on TV. Hupp would clean her clock.

19 posted on 08/29/2002 2:49:21 PM PDT by Badray
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Yes,I remember seeing her interviewed.She had conceal/carry but the law did not permit her to have her gun in a restaurant!Carolyn McCarthy is just plain STUPID!!!!!!!
20 posted on 08/29/2002 2:51:42 PM PDT by bandleader
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