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I gave up my gun after the New Zealand mosque shootings. (trunc) (barf alert)
Denver Post ^ | 28 mar 2019 | John Hart

Posted on 03/28/2019 7:20:02 AM PDT by rellimpank

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"Until that Friday, I had always considered my weapon nothing more than a tool. Everything changed once I saw how devastating it can be in the wrong hands. How could I argue that this efficient killer was the only way to take care of my land? When I weighed its potential for harm against its convenience, the choice was obvious. I didn’t need an assault weapom"--

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


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: banglist; christchurchshooting; moron; newzealand; rkba
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To: rellimpank

Will you convert when they knock on you door and ask ?


21 posted on 03/28/2019 7:37:50 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: rellimpank

Hammers, kaiser blades, axes, and crow bars are devastating in the wrong hands. I wonder if they are going to give those up too?


22 posted on 03/28/2019 7:38:02 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: Puppage

“It’s a Bill Rights, not a bill of needs. “

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Post of the day. :)


23 posted on 03/28/2019 7:38:26 AM PDT by proud American in Canada ("I may be dead, but I'm still pretty." Buffy the Vampire Slayer, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar )
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To: rellimpank

May your chains rest lightly.


24 posted on 03/28/2019 7:39:14 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - Dad's wisdom)
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To: rellimpank

-—it still is only a tool, dunce-—somebody has to pull the trigger-—


Yep. Fertilizer is only a tool. Hammers are only tools. Screwdrivers are only tools. Heck, a delivery truck is only a tool. A passenger airliner is only a tool.

Put any of them in the wrong hands and there will be hell to pay. It doesn’t mean we remove them from the planet.


25 posted on 03/28/2019 7:41:54 AM PDT by cuban leaf
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To: rellimpank

Good for you. You collect 1,000 Virtue Signalling Stamps.

Now STFU and leave the rest of us alone.


26 posted on 03/28/2019 7:42:55 AM PDT by IronJack
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To: rellimpank

Reminds me of the idiots in 1968 who, after the murder of Bobby Kennedy, gave up their guns to the police, then claimed they were living in fear of their neighbors who did not give up their guns.


27 posted on 03/28/2019 7:44:22 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

I remember people in 1968 who did that after Bobby Kennedy was murdered. “THIS HOUSE IS NOT ARMED!” It didn’t last long.


28 posted on 03/28/2019 7:46:00 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: rellimpank

Good John. Then when some nutcase comes into the church or restaurant or shopping mall when you are there, you won’t be able to defend yourself.


29 posted on 03/28/2019 7:55:11 AM PDT by Opinionated Blowhard (When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.)
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To: rellimpank

It takes me here:

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/27/trashing-the-electoral-college-is-about-seizing-po/?fbclid=IwAR3PaXRNjkbifO2KEgFr_ItJcTESBQZeF_gowwIffFcNmGhe2miQgjhdB1I


30 posted on 03/28/2019 7:55:24 AM PDT by SJSAMPLE
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To: rellimpank
...I had always considered my weapon nothing more than a tool.

Okay, Mr. pussy-ass, which is it? A weapon or a tool? It is a tool! I am the weapon!

(...actually, you are a tool.)

31 posted on 03/28/2019 7:56:02 AM PDT by real saxophonist (One side has guns and training. Other side's primary concern is 'gender identity'. Who's gonna win?)
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To: rellimpank

There are NZ-based Internet chat forums claiming that building construction has ground to a halt because of the confiscations. They’ve run out of PVC pipe because so many Kiwis are choosing to hide their guns rather than turn them in, and it’s pretty simple to make a weather-impervious D-I-Y gun case from PVC.

If true, I’d say Mr. Hart (author of the “OpEd”) is in a distinct minority.


32 posted on 03/28/2019 7:56:09 AM PDT by Paal Gulli
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To: rellimpank
John Hart notes "When semiautomatic rifles of a larger caliber started becoming more widely available here, around 15 years ago, I bought one. A semiautomatic just seemed useful to have around. If I spotted a mob of goats, I could drop two or three of them before they ran away."

Thanks to his realization that Marxist Propaganda is of paramount importance over the safety of his family, he now can spot a mob of goathumpers enforcing Sharia on his daughters before he runs away.

33 posted on 03/28/2019 7:57:12 AM PDT by Navy Patriot (America NEEDS Mob Rule, another European and Mid East World War and a universal Draft)
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To: rellimpank
I'm not a fan of guns but do support the Constitutional right of US citizens being armed. That being said, this is a crazy conclusion. What those Mosques needed was an armed guard. The maniacs will still be armed and decent people will have no defense.

In Curacao in November, a walking tour went past the oldest synagogue in this hemisphere during Saturday prayer service. They had an armed guard at the gate, because of what happened in Pittsburgh! It was quite a powerful statement that a synagogue that's been there for centuries now needs and armed guard. But it was the correct response.

34 posted on 03/28/2019 7:59:48 AM PDT by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: rellimpank
Everything changed once I saw how devastating it can be in the wrong hands.

Did you give up your car after seeing how devastating it can be in the wrong hands?


35 posted on 03/28/2019 8:09:51 AM PDT by Yo-Yo ( is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: rellimpank

Remember all those Muslims who turned in their guns after Bataclan? Yeah, me neither.


36 posted on 03/28/2019 8:11:30 AM PDT by Drew68 (No, as a matter of fact, I didn't read the article.)
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To: rellimpank
When I weighed its potential for harm against its convenience, the choice was obvious. I didn’t need an assault weapom"--

Then he bought some makeup and girl's clothes, and became a bacha bāzī ("dancing boy") for the local Musloids...

37 posted on 03/28/2019 8:22:46 AM PDT by an amused spectator (Mitt Romney, Chuck Schumer's p*ssboy)
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To: samtheman
Actually he surrendered his rights He is now a serf

By the Lord before whom this sanctuary is holy, I will to democRAT Party be true and faithful, and love all which democRAT Party loves and shun all which democRAT Party shuns, according to the laws of the democRAT Party and the order of the world. Nor will I ever with will or action, through word or deed, do anything which is unpleasing to democRAT Party, on condition that democRAT Party will hold to me as I shall deserve it, and that democRAT Party will perform everything as it was in our agreement when I submitted myself to him and chose the democRAT Party's will.

38 posted on 03/28/2019 8:35:09 AM PDT by Ouderkirk (Life is about ass, you're either covering, hauling, laughing, kicking, kissing, or behaving like one)
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To: rellimpank

Let it be known I’m here to give moral support to these poor stricken individuals. I will take, free of charge, any of those sinister weapons that they want to rid themselves of.


39 posted on 03/28/2019 8:40:32 AM PDT by hardspunned
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To: rhombus10

One more person you can pillage when the SHTF.


40 posted on 03/28/2019 8:41:43 AM PDT by fruser1
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