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Columnist: I’m More Afraid Of Legal Gun Owners Than Gun-Wielding Criminals(WOW!)
dailycaller.com ^
| 1/8/2016
| Scott Greer
Posted on 01/09/2016 7:01:04 AM PST by rktman
A Baltimore Sun columnist wrote in a Thursday op-ed that citizens who legally own firearms are more frightening than the criminals who use the weapons on the rough streets of her hometown.
Tricia Bishop, deputy editorial page editor for the Baltimore paper, explained how billboards advertisements for guns and everyday Americans carrying them around made her sick.
"I'm less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore... than I am by those permitted gun owners," Bishop said.
She says this because she believes as a middle-class white woman, she's shielded from her city's criminal element but, in her opinion, she's not protected from her neighbors' legally-purchased weapons.
"I have the luxury of being white and middle class in a largely segregated city that reserves most of its shootings for poor, black neighborhoods overtaken by 'the game,'" she wrote. "But I don't know where the legal gun owners are or how to ensure that their children, no matter how well versed in respecting firearms, won't one day introduce that weapon to my daughter."
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Philosophy; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: 2a; 2ndamendment; alreadyposted; baltimore; baltimoresun; banglist; demagogicparty; guncontrol; maryland; memebuilding; mommunist; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; secondamendment; wackjob
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To: LoneRangerMassachusetts
You can't argue with a liberal. They have no rules of logic. You can't argue based on facts, but sometimes you can play upon their feeeeeelings like a fiddle!
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posted on
01/09/2016 9:53:21 AM PST
by
null and void
(This war starts in the spiritual realm-it will end in ours though.)
To: rktman
She’s one of the reasons the Sun is referred to as The Baltimore Democrat Party Daily Newsletter.
Just another in a long line of idiot writer there.
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posted on
01/09/2016 10:19:51 AM PST
by
cyclotic
(Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
To: EEGator
Allowed to Vote,,,
that’s when America started down hill.
83
posted on
01/09/2016 1:43:31 PM PST
by
Big Red Badger
(UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
To: rktman
It is people like her that make me think that we should abandon some parts of our country altogether, withdraw any friendlies, and then after the Islamic hordes have taken the bait, employ nukes.
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posted on
01/09/2016 6:50:17 PM PST
by
GenXteacher
(You have chosen dishonor to avoid war; you shall have war also.)
To: GenXteacher
Her comments are almost mind numbing.
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posted on
01/10/2016 6:21:14 AM PST
by
rktman
(Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
To: rktman
“Some people are afraid of heights. Not me. I’m afraid of widths.” ~ Steve Wright
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posted on
01/10/2016 6:27:38 AM PST
by
Sirius Lee
(Cruz or Lose 2016)
To: Gaffer
These people really do live in a separate (mental) world, a world that they truly believe is safe and secure for them.
Then there is the real world; the world where the barbarians are at the gates and the police or the good guys are just outnumbered and overwhelmed.
She should try thinking about the fact that even good people, in good places, can be overwhelmed and harmed.
I will always choose to protect my loved ones and myself by being prepared to do battle if necessary; I still might lose, but not from lack of trying.
The police are there to capture the criminals after the crime has been committed, not necessarily to prevent the crime.
Even princes, kings, and presidents have been assassinated; I doubt her security is anywhere near as good as theirs.
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posted on
01/10/2016 11:07:26 AM PST
by
5th MEB
(Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
To: rktman
Tricia Bishop, deputy editorial page editor for the Baltimore paper, explained how billboards advertisements for guns and everyday Americans carrying them around made her sick.
"I'm less afraid of the criminals wielding guns in Baltimore... than I am by those permitted gun owners," Bishop said. She has reason to be. Baltimore's criminals are not sworn to support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Like I am, and thousands of other lawfully armed members of the military and veterans are.
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posted on
01/11/2016 11:45:51 AM PST
by
archy
(Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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