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1 less gun for grandkids to worry about
Charlotte Observer ^
| 7/31/07
| DANNYE ROMINE POWELL
Posted on 07/31/2007 4:11:14 PM PDT by DeFault User
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I suppose this is typical of those who fear firearms. I just don't think the author was wise to publish it with her name in a local paper. She is a regular columnist for the Observer and now every thug in town knows her home is defenseless. That takes more guts and/or less brains than I have.
To: DeFault User
The whole story is probably made up anyway, hence the anonymity.
Beware any statistic that defines children as 18 or less. I'm surprised they didn't use 21 or less. 90% of those "children" died in crime or gang related violence, not by innocently stumbling over a poorly stored firearm.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:15:36 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: DeFault User
I was going to teach my children to walk across the street.
But then, my wife said “What if they get hit by a car.”
And I knew.
I would rather them live on this side of the street.
It just isn’t worth it.
Drive a car?
Fuggetaboutit.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:15:45 PM PDT
by
Stallone
(War with Iran - While Bush is President and Troops are Present.)
To: DeFault User
I hope her grandchildren are not victims in a home invasion.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:16:23 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: DeFault User
You forgot the barf alert. That aside, proper training and storage can go a long ways to minimizing the dangers to innocent children. I would not let the stupidity of other people deter me from protecting my loved ones and myself.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:17:06 PM PDT
by
AlaskaErik
(Run, Fred run! I will send my donation as soon as you announce.)
To: Yo-Yo
Oops, I meant "hence the
lack of anonymity."
Sorry.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:18:23 PM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
To: DeFault User
In the 10 years ending in 2006, 486 children under age 18 in North Carolina, alone, died from gun-related injuries. I wonder how many of those "children" were gangbangers that died in turf wars? I suspect most of them.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:18:28 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
(There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
To: Yo-Yo
and most of those children were shot because of dumb parents who don’t know how to put a gun where children don’t just stumble upon them...
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:18:30 PM PDT
by
cjohnson1
To: DeFault User
My friend called the next day, tearful. Her father had found her
out, and spanked her. The gun, she whispered, had been loaded
after all.
Too bad this writer couldn't take her blinders off.
The father (the COLONEL) needed the spanking.
And maybe locked into a lecture hall lined with chalk boards, along
with a case of chalk and erasers to write
"I will not leave any firearm unsecured in my home"
for about 48 hours straight.
The story, if true, was one of shame for the father.
And a lucky miss for his daughter and her friend.
I wouldn't expect the newspaper to point this out in a rebuttal letter
or guest column.
There is no such thing as a "fairness doctrine" with most of the
liberal (and DYING, YIPPEE!!!) fish-wrap new-rags.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:18:33 PM PDT
by
VOA
To: DeFault User
TonyInOhio's Rule #1: Women with two last names are almost always liberals.
This article provides yet more validation.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:19:17 PM PDT
by
TonyInOhio
(But westward, look, the land is bright!)
To: TommyDale
I suggest they put up a sign in their yard delcaring it a
“ GUN FREE ZONE”
“Take all or whom you want”
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:19:32 PM PDT
by
Robe
(Rome did not create a great empire by talking, they did it by killing all those who opposed them)
To: DeFault User
The story Fairy tale.
2 adults, 2 kids in my house
all armed, all trained.
We don’t dial “911”
We call the coroner.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:20:02 PM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
To: DeFault User
Defenseless and dead is better than discovering someone we love deadThere, fixed it.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:20:37 PM PDT
by
Puppage
(You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
To: Mr. Mojo
There were probably 10,000 or more whose lives were saved by someone having a gun available for self protection.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:20:53 PM PDT
by
TommyDale
(Never forget the Republicans who voted for illegal immigrant amnesty in 2007!)
To: DeFault User
She squeezed and squeezed, still pointing. The trigger didn't budgeGee, maybe the evil gun had a safety device?
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:20:56 PM PDT
by
Popman
(I removed my Bushbot brain chip after he didn't veto the McCain Feingold election anti freedom bill)
To: Mr. Mojo
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:21:27 PM PDT
by
xcamel
("It's Talk Thompson Time!" >> irc://irc.freenode.net/fredthompson)
To: DeFault User
A couple of points:
Anobody stupid enough to not keep their firearms secure from kids have no business owning them.
Most of these kids quoted in this story who have been killed by guns were probably gangbangers or their victims, intended or accidental.
This story is pure Unadulterated Bull$hit Propoganda!
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:21:40 PM PDT
by
umgud
("When illegals are banned, only greedy businesses and welfare providers will have them)
To: DeFault User
In the 10 years ending in 2006, 486 children under age 18 in North Carolina Because they got into grandfather's gun cabinet?
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:21:52 PM PDT
by
donna
(The United States Constitution and the Koran are mutually exclusive.)
To: DeFault User
Can't you see that happening to us?" I said."Sure, I can," my husband said. "But we have an alarm system." Ah yes, the ole counting on scaring the criminal away with noise defense. Deluded enough to believe it, too.
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posted on
07/31/2007 4:21:57 PM PDT
by
Mr. Mojo
(There are four types of homicide: felonious, accidental, justifiable, and praiseworthy)
To: DeFault User
Sounds like she’s has a “sensitive” husband.
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