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Miami coach Larranaga: We have to do something about our gun laws
arcamax.com ^ | 2/18/18 | M Kauffman

Posted on 02/19/2018 6:25:13 AM PST by SoFloFreeper

University of Miami basketball coach Jim Larranaga took the opportunity after Saturday's 62-55 loss to Syracuse to let the world know his views on gun control in the wake of the Stoneman Douglas High massacre.

"I think we have to do something about our gun laws," Larranaga said. "We're not the Wild, Wild West where everybody should carry a gun. There needs to be accountability and responsibility for people in charge of selling guns and buying guns."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: basketball; beeswax; guns; sports
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Hey coach. Hush it.
1 posted on 02/19/2018 6:25:13 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Stick to coaching basketball...You might work on that a little bit...


2 posted on 02/19/2018 6:27:23 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Shut up and coach the dribblers.


3 posted on 02/19/2018 6:27:43 AM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Maybe look at the school policy which does NOT report incidents to the police. IIRC, Trayvon Martin’s school engaged in the same policy cuz they got better marks in the “see our wonderful students”.


5 posted on 02/19/2018 6:28:49 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: SoFloFreeper

It is soooo much easier to pass a law rather than address a social dysfunction. Feel good instantly and no need to think about the problem, anymore. That it doesn’t work is totally beside the point.


6 posted on 02/19/2018 6:28:58 AM PST by ArtDodger
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To: SoFloFreeper

Who don’t we do something about the shooters?


7 posted on 02/19/2018 6:29:13 AM PST by AppyPappy (Don't mistake your dorm political discussions with the desires of the nation)
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To: SoFloFreeper

We Are Western Civilization!

Armor-Up the Damn Schools!


8 posted on 02/19/2018 6:30:05 AM PST by Big Red Badger (UNSCANABLE in an IDIOCRACY!)
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To: SoFloFreeper
"We're not the Wild, Wild West where everybody should carry a gun.

Talked with a deputy sheriff this weekend and that's exactly what we need! Everybody open carry! Lot of respect!

9 posted on 02/19/2018 6:30:21 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 (Molon Labe! (Oathkeeper))
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To: SoFloFreeper

The “wild west” wasn’t the “wild west” either, until crime and corruption started...then, it took the law, and guns, to tame it down.

If any of these clowns think they’re going to talk, or legislate, the end to gun violence, they’re as naïve as two-year-olds.

You fight fire, with fire.


10 posted on 02/19/2018 6:31:27 AM PST by FrankR (An armed society is a polite society.)
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To: Post5203

We have to do something about the break down of the family and other cultural issues.


11 posted on 02/19/2018 6:31:31 AM PST by ActresponsiblyinVA
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To: SoFloFreeper

We don’t have too few gun control on the books; in fact, we have 30,000 of them.

Something liberals never bother to tell us about. We need yet another law to keep people from going postal.

Right, coach?


12 posted on 02/19/2018 6:32:35 AM PST by goldstategop ((In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Forever))
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To: SoFloFreeper

How often did these incidents occur in the “wild, wild west,” where “everybody” wore a gun?


13 posted on 02/19/2018 6:32:55 AM PST by Mr Ramsbotham (Laws against sodomy are honored in the breech.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

his opinion matters why?


14 posted on 02/19/2018 6:33:19 AM PST by manc ( If they want so called marriage equality then they should support polygamy too.)
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To: SoFloFreeper; Lazamataz; Yaelle
Coach, either shut up and teach how to dribble or check out this graphic from our very own Laz (thanks to Yaelle for recommending wide distribution) that gets things to a state of reality:


15 posted on 02/19/2018 6:34:01 AM PST by DoodleBob
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To: SoFloFreeper; Lazamataz
From out esteemed correspondent Laz:


16 posted on 02/19/2018 6:34:21 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

To stop the shootings, find out the reasons why kids didn’t shoot up schools as they brought their rifles to high school for their ROTC training and the culture now where they feel like sitting ducks.

Something changed and it sure wasn’t an inanimate object.


17 posted on 02/19/2018 6:35:16 AM PST by rollo tomasi (Working hard to pay for deadbeats and corrupt politicians.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

How many of his players are fatherless?


18 posted on 02/19/2018 6:35:22 AM PST by A Cyrenian (I donated to FreeRepublic's fund to exist. Will you please?)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yeah, when I want some overpaid ex-jock’s opinion on my Natural Rights, I’ll beat it out of his dumb face with a nail-studded baseball bat...


19 posted on 02/19/2018 6:35:52 AM PST by kiryandil (Never pick a fight with an angry beehive)
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To: Mr Ramsbotham

Agreed. And it’s fun to go to the old yearbooks section of Classmates.com and see the rifle and gun clubs that both boys and girls participated in, knowing that basically nothing like that happened then either.


20 posted on 02/19/2018 6:36:53 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("If I had to go to war again, I'd bring lacrosse players" Conn Smythe)
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