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Baltimore outlaws BB guns for minors (or "Robbing Ralphie of Red Ryder")
Baltimore Sun via Boston Globe ^ | Laura Vozzella

Posted on 12/23/2002 8:11:12 AM PST by sheltonmac

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:08:46 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

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To: mrs. a
Hey, Baltimoreans!

I thought that they were "Baltimorons" - didn't the majority of them vote for the Kennedy witch?

21 posted on 12/23/2002 9:11:49 AM PST by from occupied ga
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To: TexasRepublic
Attention Comrades! Turn in all illegal BB guns to the nearest police station at once! Do it NOW!

turn in all contra revolutionaries known to have to consort or sponsor any one with a BB gun..Dot it for the chi ren and for your furer country

22 posted on 12/23/2002 9:55:29 AM PST by joesnuffy
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To: sheltonmac
Why not outlaw robbing and stabbing?
23 posted on 12/23/2002 10:22:12 AM PST by Eagle Eye
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To: from occupied ga
Beat me to it. Reminds me...there's a MaryLander over on smirkingChimp whose cage I haven't rattled for awhile. He was hell bent on the destruction of Conservatism when last we conversed. I wonder how that's comin' along.
24 posted on 12/23/2002 10:30:46 AM PST by gundog
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To: Eagle Eye
"Why not outlaw robbing and stabbing?"

Nah, that would just be treating the symptoms of a much bigger problem--the proliferation of BB guns!!!

25 posted on 12/23/2002 10:35:03 AM PST by sheltonmac
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To: from occupied ga
Baltimore residents who would buy BB guns probably displayed a modicum of common sense and voted for Ehrlich...
26 posted on 12/23/2002 10:55:59 AM PST by mrs. a
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To: sheltonmac
I wonder what they would have done with the 20 gauge I got for my 14th?
27 posted on 12/23/2002 10:58:27 AM PST by js1138
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To: Lysander
"I can build a gun from a radio antenna, a block of wood, a nail, a rubber band, black tape, and a cloths pin. A .22 cal bullet just fits. We called them zip guns when we were kids."

Hey!

You are an "old fart"!

Me too!

I suppose you made a belt buckle with the fender emblem from a Ford V8 too? ;)

28 posted on 12/23/2002 11:02:28 AM PST by G.Mason
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To: onedoug
But he'll shoot his eye out!
29 posted on 12/23/2002 11:05:41 AM PST by TakeitBack
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To: sheltonmac
When I was a kid, I killed at least 150 ducks and 50 coots along with an unknown number of 3 toads with my pellet gun.....all for the sheer enjoyment of it....I also did a number on insects with my magnifying glass and sunlight.....

ahhh, those were the days.

30 posted on 12/23/2002 12:28:43 PM PST by zarf
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To: js1138
I got my first 22 when I was 12.

The solution is to outlaw dumb parents who don't teach proper gun saftey, and don't teach good morals to their children.
31 posted on 12/23/2002 2:23:38 PM PST by jgrubbs
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To: sheltonmac
Illegal aliens and middle-eastern terrorists have Constitutional rights, but not kids born in Baltimore. Are there any conservative men in Baltimore with more balls? I am pretty sure there is federal district court there where they could contest this by filing for an injunction. And city governments do not have sovereign immunity.
32 posted on 12/26/2002 5:50:18 AM PST by B. A. Conservative
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To: G.Mason
I suppose you made a belt buckle with the fender emblem from a Ford V8 too? ;)

Nope. Nothing "Ford" allowed around our place. My dad was an Oldsmobile man. I did however make a scooter out of a strap-on skate and the wood from a beer case...

When it broke I invented the first skateboard. That was in 1958, way ahead of the craze. I got no credit of course.

As far as the "old fart" comment-- I guess I'll ignore it, my age is top secret! (over 50 under 100)

33 posted on 12/30/2002 1:30:25 PM PST by Lysander
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To: zarf
"When I was a kid, I killed at least 150 ducks and 50 coots along with an unknown number of 3 toads with my pellet gun.....all for the sheer enjoyment of it....I also did a number on insects with my magnifying glass and sunlight.....

ahhh, those were the days."

Well, when I was a kid I used my BB gun to shoot the asses of worthless cretins who liked to hurt animals. Never got in trouble for it, either.
34 posted on 12/30/2002 1:34:03 PM PST by mg39
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To: mg39
I wish you would of got to me. I would of come out of my youthful insanity sooner.
35 posted on 12/30/2002 11:08:17 PM PST by zarf
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To: Lysander
"As far as the "old fart" comment-- I guess I'll ignore it, my age is top secret! (over 50 under 100)"

I assure you it wasn't a slur.

You see, I'm from the "crop" of '41 and knew we were kinsmen.

Yes sir! Skate boards from old metal skates and if we found a baby carriage tossed in the garbage, we took it home and made a car, wagon, or something out of it.

We had some fun.

36 posted on 12/31/2002 4:37:11 AM PST by G.Mason
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To: sheltonmac
Last weekend I saw a bumper sticker:
"Guns have two enemies: rust & politicians."
37 posted on 12/31/2002 4:42:25 AM PST by HarryArmpitch
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To: G.Mason
Oh yeah baby! The old soap box car going a zillion mph down the hill!(With no breaks save a wooden lever to rub against one wheel)

Now how about this one– going around the neighborhood and construction sites picking up pop bottles for 2 cents each to get into the 25 cent movie? My dad used to tell me about nickle movies, and I swore back then that I would never talk that way when I got old(er). Now look at me.

We used to ride our bikes everywhere! When I was a mere lad of 5 I would ride the L in Chicago with my older brother of 10 to Cominsky Park. No adults needed. Hell a kid cannot even play in the yard alone now! They even need adults to supervise their baseball games. My grand kids have never just gotten together to play ball they always have coaches!

Oh, oh. I am an old fart...

38 posted on 12/31/2002 11:10:51 AM PST by Lysander
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To: Travis McGee
FYI, another anti-American, anti-Firearm commie move.
39 posted on 12/31/2002 11:52:42 AM PST by PatrioticAmerican
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To: sheltonmac
Yeah, everybody knows that BB guns are the biggest threat to American society these days. Every other problem has been eradicated, so it's time to clamp down on those airgun-toting miscreants. *sigh*

Guard: "That's not a real gun, is it, Clark?"

Clark: "Sure it is... it's a 'Magnum, P.I.'"

Guard: "That thing wouldn't even break the skin!"

Clark: "Yes it could. It... it could lodge under the skin and cause a very bad infection!"

40 posted on 12/31/2002 12:17:02 PM PST by Charles Martel
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