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Gun Control Leader Bucked the Tide (Dropkick Computer Alert) - Gun rights people blamed for murder.
LA SLIMES - WHO ELSE ^ | Oct 16 | Kim Murphy

Posted on 10/16/2001 3:20:42 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan

Edited on 09/03/2002 4:49:26 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Crime: In Washington state, a 2nd Amendment stronghold, some fear Thomas Wales was killed for his activism.

SEATTLE -- It was no coincidence that the National Rifle Assn. chose Washington state for its annual gun show earlier this year. The state has always regarded the 2nd Amendment as a sacred text.

When gun control proponents backed a landmark initiative in 1997 to require trigger locks and safety training, it didn't just lose. It lost spectacularly, by a 71%-29% margin. It lost in every single county.


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Is there a worse paper in the country, than the LA SLIMES? These F-heads are the most anti-2a paper in the country. Not only that, they hate the first amendment as well.

This isn't even in their state.

Click on the source if you can stomach more of this LA CRAP.

1 posted on 10/16/2001 3:20:42 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
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To: Dan from Michigan
Investigators are looking closely at the possibility that a militant gun-rights advocate could have been behind the shooting.

No they’re not. Any militant gun-rights advocate would have had the common sense to stab or poison him if he was going to kill him. No sense making his job any harder.

2 posted on 10/16/2001 3:24:13 PM PDT by dead
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To: Dan from Michigan
The state has always regarded the 2nd Amendment as a sacred text.

Advantage: Washington state.

3 posted on 10/16/2001 3:26:52 PM PDT by Storm Orphan
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To: dead
BUMP
4 posted on 10/16/2001 3:28:23 PM PDT by Aurelius
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To: Dan from Michigan
So it was that several dozen members of CeaseFire, demonstrating at the NRA gun show in July, were more than a little intimidated when they were met with several counterdemonstrators...

I attended this show with two of my sons. We had a good laugh at the CeaseFire morons as they marched in a little circle chanting, "NRA, go away!" I'm sure they felt oh so heroic protesting so close to people with guns. Ooooh, scary.

5 posted on 10/16/2001 3:37:12 PM PDT by Jolly Rodgers
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To: Dan from Michigan
I'm glad this incident is getting national airplay.

Let the tyranny-abetters worry a little.

Let them buy guns to protect their own homes, and then try to keep a straight face at their rallies.

6 posted on 10/16/2001 3:38:49 PM PDT by Henry F. Bowman
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To: Dan from Michigan
Investigators are looking closely at the possibility that a militant gun-rights advocate could have been behind the shooting.

Give me a f-cking break. It is far more likely that a militant gun-control advocate shot him to advance their cause. Why would a gun rights advocate give a damn about him? Gun control has no chance in Washington state.

7 posted on 10/16/2001 3:51:51 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy
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To: Dan from Michigan
If the pro-gun types are really behind this, I cannot help they would be better off assassinating prominent (yet ineffective) pro-gun individuals. This way in the role of Agent Provocateur, they could stir up a public rally against gun control types in the same way the anti-abortion group has been stigmatized by the killings of abortion doctors.
8 posted on 10/16/2001 4:42:25 PM PDT by droberts
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To: Dan from Michigan
I normally try very hard not to enjoy others' misfortunes--I'll definitely make an exception for Osama bin Laden, and another for Saddam Hussein--but I'd guess this anti-Second Amendment bigot died wishing he were able to shoot back.

Leftists are to American civil rights
as the A.I.D.S. virus is to health!

9 posted on 10/16/2001 4:53:31 PM PDT by Standing Wolf
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To: dead
It is kind of interesting how the Gun Control group will take ANY shooting tragedy and turn it into a Public Relations opportunity. It doesn't matter if they exploit children, the elderly, or their own. They have absolutely no shame.

Just so the slime bags in LA understand, up here in Washington State, we have a constitution that says, "The right of the individual citizen to bear arms in defense of himself, or the state, shall not be impaired, but nothing in this section shall be construed as authorizing individuals or corporations to organize, maintain or employ an armed body of men." Article 1, Section 24.

I and my neighbors take our individual civil rights provided by our consitution seriously. When groups like CeaseFire try to infringe on our civil rights we know how to turn out the vote. That is a lot different from the kind of slime and propaganda being put forward by the LA Times.

10 posted on 10/16/2001 5:04:41 PM PDT by Robert357
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To: Dan from Michigan
I still think it's Arkancide. He was in charge of investigating banking and fraud. Methinks he was getting way too close to something an [ahem] former First Lady wanted buried, especially now that her old Commie buddy, Winnie Mandela, is in big trouble. [/tinfoil hat off]
11 posted on 10/16/2001 5:20:03 PM PDT by pray4liberty
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To: dead
you're exactly right.
bet it was one of his "jilted" gay-lovers....
12 posted on 10/16/2001 5:25:17 PM PDT by hoot2
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To: Bubba_Leroy
You're the first one to make what seems to me to be an obvious point. This blowhard (even the Seattle Times described him as "strident in his rhetoric") had no success whatsoever in promoting gungrabbing. That antigun intitiative - with funding by Bill Gates BTW - crashed and burned. Nobody from a second amendment group would have shot this guy - he hadn't accomplished anything, and wasn't about to.
13 posted on 10/16/2001 6:43:59 PM PDT by TheMole
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