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Would You Buy Your 10-Year-Old Daughter a Gun for Christmas? Paul Ryan Did
Huffington ^ | 4/10/2012 | Kate Gunn

Posted on 12/25/2014 2:47:55 PM PST by WilliamIII

Last week a small and seemingly innocuous piece in The Times caught my eye. The short panel referred to the fact that Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's right hand man and the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, had just spent $100 on camouflage hunting clothes for his daughter, Liza, 10, to go with the rifle he bought her last Christmas.

Aghast with what I had just read I blogged about it, commenting that buying a 10 year old a rifle for Christmas was insane, and anywhere in the world that it wasn't considered to be must be a crazy place.

(Excerpt) Read more at huffingtonpost.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: banglist; huffpo; massachusetts; mittromney; paulryan; wisconsin
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To: Fungi

I generally like him, but I doubt I’d vote for him in the primary.


21 posted on 12/25/2014 2:56:48 PM PST by KoRn (Department of Homeland Security, Certified - "Right Wing Extremist")
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

Plus gift certificates from the local abortion clinic.


22 posted on 12/25/2014 2:56:50 PM PST by dowcaet
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To: WilliamIII

When the Librats need ratings they start attacking Guns and conservatives.


23 posted on 12/25/2014 2:57:23 PM PST by Rappini (Veritas Vos Liberabit)
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To: dowcaet

LOL. Oh yes of course.


24 posted on 12/25/2014 2:57:24 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: WilliamIII

We be a much safer country if every kid in America was given a gun when they reached ten years old.


25 posted on 12/25/2014 2:58:17 PM PST by Oliviaforever
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To: WilliamIII

Oy! Now I have to give him credit for something. I was hoping to make it through another year without having to do so. sigh.....


26 posted on 12/25/2014 2:58:36 PM PST by chickenlips (Paul Ryano- GOPee poster boy)
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To: WilliamIII

My 13 year old G/D just got herself a nice 3x4 point buck during the last dear season. 243WIN 90gr Sierra @ close to 300 yds. up hill. Very proud of that one, this makes it two seasons in a row she scored.


27 posted on 12/25/2014 2:58:54 PM PST by mongo141 (Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
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To: WilliamIII

I got my 10 year old girl a katana for Christmas and a few weeks back a walther p22.


28 posted on 12/25/2014 2:59:49 PM PST by DirtyPigpen (Semper Fi)
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To: yarddog

Probably had to do with the rifling.
Too many twists for the higher powder load.


29 posted on 12/25/2014 3:00:59 PM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: WilliamIII

Just thought of the perfect answer to that question...if you want to drive libtards MORE crazy.

“Why would she need another gun?”


30 posted on 12/25/2014 3:02:36 PM PST by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: Lee'sGhost

It was made in Spain and only cost $29 but that was around 1984. It eventually stopped extracting long rifle empties but always worked with the shorts so that is the only thing we used in it.


31 posted on 12/25/2014 3:04:03 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: WilliamIII
Looking forward to 10 so I can get her...


32 posted on 12/25/2014 3:05:14 PM PST by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: Lee'sGhost

Paul Ryan’s daughter was 10 in 2012. ~That is when she got the rifle.. Now in 2014...


33 posted on 12/25/2014 3:06:00 PM PST by GreaterSwiss
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past
Of course a liberal wouldn’t. They would buy her sex toys and condoms.

I can't decide if that's a joke or not. Todays liberals will do or think anything that shows they are superior progressive thinkers

34 posted on 12/25/2014 3:06:39 PM PST by neocon1984
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To: Da Coyote

I got my first rifle when I was 9 years old. My older step-brother trained me in handling it. I grew up in Missouri. The other kids in my neighborhood also had rifles. We went hunting and fishing on weekends during the winter and nearly everyday during summer vacations. Interesting, no comparison with the young kids today who have no maturity and few responsibilities. When I enlisted in the Marine Corps during the Korean War I was way ahead of others who had never handled a rifle or pistol.


35 posted on 12/25/2014 3:07:28 PM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: KoRn

April, 2012


36 posted on 12/25/2014 3:07:56 PM PST by ansel12
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To: Da Coyote

Not often known is Switzerland where all are obligated to serve in the Military and are provided with a military rifle upon completion. Israel is similar- for more obvious reason. If it were inhabited by Liberals- it would have ceased to exist.


37 posted on 12/25/2014 3:10:36 PM PST by dvan (Send Them Home!Napolatono)
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To: WilliamIII

well, there’s one thing I can say I like about him


38 posted on 12/25/2014 3:13:35 PM PST by drypowder
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To: WilliamIII
Oh calm down Katie.

My family generally gave your first .22 at eight. A BB gun was given a couple of years earlier so you would know how to handle your first rifle.

It was part of growing up.

39 posted on 12/25/2014 3:17:08 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Proud Infidel, Gun Nut, Religious Fanatic and Freedom Fiend)
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To: WilliamIII

Paul Ryan is STILL an ass though. Illegal lovin traitor to the American Worker!


40 posted on 12/25/2014 3:18:56 PM PST by chicagolady (Mexican Elite say: EXPORT Poverty and Let the the Stupid AmericanTaxpayer foot the bill !)
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