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Do you know the gun owners in your circle?
Baltimore Sun ^ | 01/07/16 | Tricia Bishop

Posted on 01/22/2016 12:50:04 PM PST by Taxman

Edited on 01/22/2016 12:54:55 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

It's inevitable when my husband and I visit family these days that the subject of violence in Baltimore comes up. Often, I'm the one who raises it. But when it came up last week on a trip to see my parents in Georgia, I got my back up. I thought of the 11-hour drive south and the billboards we passed along I-81 boasting guns for sale ("A Glock for Christmas"!), and of the story my brother-in-law, who lives in Florida, told of a neighbor stopping by to shoot the breeze in his suburban driveway, a handgun holstered at the man's waist as their kids played nearby.


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To: Taxman

A commenter on the Sun site found out the writer was arrested and jailed for drunk driving a few years ago. Commenter believes more appropriate question is “Do you know the drunk drivers in your circle?” 😏


21 posted on 01/22/2016 1:19:04 PM PST by Vesparado (The American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard --- HL Mencken)
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To: Taxman

She really ought to move someplace else where she can be certain her kids will never encounter a gun. Mainland China comes to mind.


22 posted on 01/22/2016 1:19:25 PM PST by CurlyDave
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To: Taxman

The gun owners in your circle are the ones you should be concerned with(spit up in mouth) not he black lives matter criminal thugs who live and loot in downtown baltimore


23 posted on 01/22/2016 1:21:14 PM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Taxman

Washington Times though conservative is an organization of the (late)Reverend Sun Young Moon. So no thanks.


24 posted on 01/22/2016 1:21:16 PM PST by Vaquero ( Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
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To: Taxman

In my “circle” it would be easier to figure out the non-gun owners. We live in the midwest, people own guns, like..everybody. However, I’m thinking and at least 3 come to mind. One I know is afraid of guns, thinks an intruder will grab your gun and shoot you with it! Another one is just too poor and another one, well, let’s just say he’s not allowed to own guns.


25 posted on 01/22/2016 1:23:20 PM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: facedown

“Sure, because all of them are”

Ditto here. :-)


26 posted on 01/22/2016 1:31:02 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: Taxman
Circle?....

Sorry, in a stroke of absolute incredible coincidence, me and all the gun owners I know have lost our weapons in various lakes and streams in Texas and Louisiana.

We lament and regret our bad luck.

27 posted on 01/22/2016 1:35:49 PM PST by catfish1957 (I display the Confederate Battle Flag with pride in honor of my brave ancestors who fought w/ valor)
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To: Lurkinanloomin
Maryland has become one of the communist states so this coud actually happen there.

I grew up in Maryland. When I was twelve or thereabouts, my brother and I used to shoot the rabbits in our garden with .22 shorts out of our bedroom window. When one fell over dead from a head shot, the others would just look around and keep on eating the vegetables; but when one was wounded and started screaming, they would all run away.
28 posted on 01/22/2016 1:36:17 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: catfish1957

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30 posted on 01/22/2016 1:41:04 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: Taxman

From the author: “it’s the simple presence of the weapon in the home and the possibilities it presents that terrify me.”

Sounds like a personal problem to me.


31 posted on 01/22/2016 1:43:08 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: moehoward

Boats suck I tell ya. I hate boats.


32 posted on 01/22/2016 1:46:11 PM PST by AFreeBird
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To: Taxman

My whole family, even the females over 21 carry.


33 posted on 01/22/2016 1:47:59 PM PST by exnavy (good gun control: two hands, one shot, one kill.)
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To: TADSLOS

OMG - that illustration launched a 40-year flashback...


34 posted on 01/22/2016 1:49:36 PM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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To: Taxman

No, I don’t know every single person in my county, only that they are armed to the teeth. Even the one’s who call themselves liberals.


35 posted on 01/22/2016 1:50:10 PM PST by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: Taxman

That’s the whole point: not knowing.
The criminals are afraid when they don’t know who is armed.

That’s why it works as a deterrent.

And that is why “gun free zones” are idiotic.

I feel bad for those hapless, well meaning but (what is a good non insulting word?) fools that put signs in front of their homes advertising that they don’t have guns, or that they oppose gun ownership... and see them take the signs down two or three weeks after, after they had been the subject of a few robberies.


36 posted on 01/22/2016 1:54:27 PM PST by Toughluck_freeper
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To: AFreeBird

Preach it brother (or sister).

Boats are holes where you throw your money and they show their appreciation by throwing precious weaponry overboard.


37 posted on 01/22/2016 1:55:37 PM PST by moehoward
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To: Taxman

I live in NE Maryland. Pretty much everyone in my circles won’t be having her kids over to play


38 posted on 01/22/2016 1:55:44 PM PST by cyclotic (Liberalism is what smart looks like to stupid people.)
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To: Taxman

The comments at the link are priceless. They should be recruited to FR.


39 posted on 01/22/2016 1:56:43 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: cornfedcowboy
The comments at the link are priceless.

Second the motion! Especially the guy who pulled up her Guilty plea to a DUI charge from a...(drum roll)...database. If I had kids, they'd be banned from playing at her house if she was driving.

40 posted on 01/22/2016 2:04:32 PM PST by Billthedrill
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