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Baltimore outlaws BB guns for minors (or "Robbing Ralphie of Red Ryder")
Baltimore Sun via Boston Globe ^ | Laura Vozzella

Posted on 12/23/2002 8:11:12 AM PST by sheltonmac

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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Big Brother is robbing Ralphie of his dream...

1 posted on 12/23/2002 8:11:12 AM PST by sheltonmac
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To: ppaul; ex-snook; kidd; Snuffington; Inspector Harry Callahan; JohnHuang2; GeronL; sauropod; ...
*ping*
2 posted on 12/23/2002 8:11:32 AM PST by sheltonmac
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"Two 15-year-olds - one armed with a BB gun, the other with a knife - robbed and stabbed Wendell P. Rawlings last month outside the home of his sister, Stephanie C. Rawlings Blake, vice president of the city council."

So why not outlaw knives????

3 posted on 12/23/2002 8:13:45 AM PST by sheltonmac
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To: sheltonmac
He'll shoot his eye out. He'll shoot his eye out.
4 posted on 12/23/2002 8:19:48 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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Why not outlaw 15 year old kids?
Why not make it illegal to be outside the home of your sister?
I also think it should be unlawful to have two middle names.
5 posted on 12/23/2002 8:21:37 AM PST by sparkomatic
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...under an ordinance adopted by the City Council...

"Those guys are fags!"

6 posted on 12/23/2002 8:21:50 AM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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Does not surprise me. These guys also outlawed scooters and light motorcycles because they were being used in crimes. If they keep this up, pretty soon I'm going to feel really safe...
7 posted on 12/23/2002 8:22:21 AM PST by battlecry
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So why not outlaw knives????

Better question; Why not allow them to own 50 cal. machine guns?

8 posted on 12/23/2002 8:24:01 AM PST by Protagoras
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So why not outlaw knives????

I can build a gun from a radio antenna, a block of wood, a nail, a rubber band, black tape, and a cloths pin. A .22 cal bullet just fits. We called them zip guns when we were kids. Are they going to be able to outlaw that stuff too?

9 posted on 12/23/2002 8:24:39 AM PST by Lysander
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"Those guys are fags!"

They are cigarettes?

10 posted on 12/23/2002 8:25:14 AM PST by Protagoras
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Are they going to be able to outlaw that stuff too?

Nor should they try, for adults.

11 posted on 12/23/2002 8:26:12 AM PST by Protagoras
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You're a cigarette!
12 posted on 12/23/2002 8:28:33 AM PST by Big Guy and Rusty 99
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To: ThomasJefferson
Jeff Spicoli reference. Most apt for the situation.
13 posted on 12/23/2002 8:34:35 AM PST by Semaphore Heathcliffe
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To: sheltonmac
Dreams are for free people.

Liberals don't have dreams. You should not either.

14 posted on 12/23/2002 8:35:00 AM PST by Only1choice____Freedom
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now, now, you know the poor news meadia knows everything. They even know that you cannot fire a 12ga shell in a 3/4 inch pipe.
15 posted on 12/23/2002 8:36:11 AM PST by org.whodat
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To: sheltonmac
Ef 'em. Give your kid one anyway.
16 posted on 12/23/2002 8:41:46 AM PST by onedoug
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''It looked so much like a Glock 17, when I put it on the table to show the commanders, a couple of them wouldn't pick it up because they thought it was a real gun,'' he said. ''It can be really frightening."

No wonder Baltimore has a big problem. Imagine police commanders who know so little about firearms that they are afraid to pick up a gun because it might be real. I hope that at least the guys who work for them know how to safely pick up a pistol, drop out the magazine and clear the chamber.

17 posted on 12/23/2002 8:45:53 AM PST by blau993
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Hey, Baltimoreans!

You can get the Daisy Red Ryder BB guns at the Bass Pro Shop in Arundel Mills Mall.

I got one for Mr. A for Christmas and I can't wait to see the look on his lil' face...
18 posted on 12/23/2002 9:01:05 AM PST by mrs. a
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The large, decaying cities are becoming the Last Stand for the Lunatic Left; islands of Marxism in a land increasingly hostile to them. The time is not far off when people in the US are simply going to refuse to keep funding these sewers of discredited socialism.
19 posted on 12/23/2002 9:06:48 AM PST by pabianice
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Attention Comrades! Turn in all illegal BB guns to the nearest police station at once! Do it NOW!
20 posted on 12/23/2002 9:09:05 AM PST by TexasRepublic
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