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Don’t shoot! Instead, take a breath, Nevada!
http://www.reviewjournal.com ^ | 02/25/2015 | By STEVE SEBELIUS

Posted on 02/25/2015 7:40:24 AM PST by redreno

Nevada’s own Dirty Harriet, Las Vegas Republican Asemblywoman Michele Fiore, recently regaled the Chronicle of Higher Education with an oldie-but-goodie among gun lovers.

“I don’t know who the quote was said by, but I’ve heard it several times and I believe it wholeheartedly, that an armed society … is a polite society,” Fiore said.

Ah, yes, who could forget the recent exchange of pleasantries in Las Vegas between Tammy Myers and 19-year-old Erich Nowsch that ended with Myers dead and Nowsch facing a long prison term, at best? And that’s but the tip of the iceberg of Second Amendment moments that demonstrate how the proliferation and misuse of weapons often ends in a ride to the hospital or the graveyard

(Excerpt) Read more at reviewjournal.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; US: Nevada
KEYWORDS: banglist; guns; mediabias; michelefiore; nevada

1 posted on 02/25/2015 7:40:24 AM PST by redreno
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To: redreno

Some people just cant stand the strain of living in liberty.

Looks to me like the person who wrote this is one of them.


2 posted on 02/25/2015 7:43:35 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: redreno

We peasants should give up our guns and ammunition so the gunthugs of the American Police State can murder us by the thousands with total impunity, just like in other totalitarian states of the 20th & 21st centuries...


3 posted on 02/25/2015 7:55:14 AM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: redreno

Stories like this are why we have [Barf Alert]s.


4 posted on 02/25/2015 7:56:21 AM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: redreno

The maxim holds true.

It’s just that at the beginning, it takes a while for some of the perpetually impolite to receive their rides to the hospital or graveyard.


5 posted on 02/25/2015 7:59:16 AM PST by WayneS (Barack Obama makes Neville Chamberlin look like George Patton.)
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To: redreno

Robert A. Heinlein,


6 posted on 02/25/2015 8:01:21 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: redreno
And what’s your reward if you’re successful, besides saving yourself from an assault? The knowledge that you’ve taken a life, with all the moral, spiritual and legal consequences that such an awful act implies.

Far better to let them kill you, right, Steve?

Let me check if I would experience any moral, spiritual or legal consequence in the event I used my weapon in legal self defense.

Ummm... Nope.

7 posted on 02/25/2015 8:04:20 AM PST by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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To: Captain Compassion

In “Beyond This Horizon”, right?


8 posted on 02/25/2015 8:08:25 AM PST by Pecos (What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly.)
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To: redreno

The LV Review-Journal sure has fallen a long way since the days when Vin Suprynowicz wrote for them.


9 posted on 02/25/2015 8:15:16 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: redreno
Ah, yes, who could forget the recent exchange of pleasantries in Las Vegas between Tammy Myers and 19-year-old Erich Nowsch that ended with Myers dead and Nowsch facing a long prison term, at best?

Ah, yes, the 19-year-old Nowsch was carrying illegally since you must be 21 in Nevada to qualify for a concealed firearms permit.

So a lawbreaker broke the law. What does that have to do with an armed society, Mr. Sebelius?

10 posted on 02/25/2015 8:17:04 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: redreno

Today, the Nevada Assembly Committee on Judiciary is hearing A.B. 139 which Revises provisions governing the issuance of permits to carry concealed firearms. In other words, recognizing CCW cards from all other states.


11 posted on 02/25/2015 8:24:18 AM PST by redreno (Americans don't go Gault. Americans go Postal.)
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To: BenLurkin

My response to one of the anti-self defense cowards in the comments section of that article. They make the absurd claim that, “The cowards are the ones walking around armed, seeing boogiemen in every dark corner and escalating every dispute into a gun battle on Nevada streets...”

My response -

Except that none of what you claim has ever happened. That “Wild West” meme that you anti-self defense cowards and fools keep trotting out is largely a figment of Hollywood imagination. You really should try watching less TV and fewer movies.

The sad and disgusting thing is that you have at some point decided that neither your own life nor the lives of your loved ones (assuming you have any) aren’t worth defending. You have conflated a learned helplessness with an overweening sense of moral superiority. The former is merely contemptible, the latter is completely undeserved, and in the end, laughable.

In parting,here’s something for you to consider: the right to defend my own life, liberty and property (yes, property) is as absolute as my right to live. It is not subject to compromise or “reasonable restrictions” or so-called “common sense” laws.


12 posted on 02/25/2015 8:26:17 AM PST by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: redreno

Sebelius.......Sebelius......where have I heard that name before? Any relation?


13 posted on 02/25/2015 8:27:50 AM PST by originalbuckeye (Moderation in temper is always a virtue; moderation in principle is always a vice. Paine)
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To: WayneS; Red_Devil 232

It’s been changed to “Harf Alert”, in honor of Marie “Miss Teen South Foggy Bottom” Harf...


14 posted on 02/25/2015 8:29:09 AM PST by kiryandil (making the jests that some FReepers aren't allowed to...)
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To: Noumenon

Well said.


15 posted on 02/25/2015 8:29:30 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Pecos

Yes.


16 posted on 02/25/2015 8:55:12 AM PST by Captain Compassion
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To: redreno

17 posted on 02/25/2015 9:14:15 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: redreno

18 posted on 02/25/2015 9:16:46 AM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. – Robert Heinlein)
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To: redreno
SEBELIUS

Is Steve related to that ghoul Kathleen who used to be Kansas governor and later in Bacrock Osama's cabinet?

19 posted on 02/25/2015 9:20:07 AM PST by Darren McCarty (Mike Pence in 2016)
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