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Michael Hogan
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Lance, I'm beginning to agree with you. The scary part is, those same
people are allowed to operate a motor vehicle and vote!
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Michael Casselman
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Unfortunately, they'll get to a prospective Rural Food/Medicine Administration as soon as they hardwire broadband/high speed internet to every corner of the nation... and that's moving at a snails pace. You'll still find scattered objections to such common utilities as cell phone service in some areas because those gosh-darned cell towers (which might also be used for wireless internet services in the outlying areas) mess up all that beautiful, unmolested and majestic country scenery. We've had that battle in Upstate NY, and luckily overcame many of those the objections.
There will also need to be more money infused to the respective Department of Environmental Conservation and Parks Services agencies for population control, as we humans tend to breed ourselves to the point it displaces indigenous critters.
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John Byrne
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Outgoing NRA President LaPierre, speaking at a rally in Houston, has declared the people of Boston would have been safer if they'd only had more guns. Not sure what protection guns afford against bombs.
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Stephen Robinson
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JB: Outgoing NRA President LaPierre, speaking at a rally in Houston,
has declared the people of Boston would have been safer if they'd only
had more guns.
Not sure what protection guns afford against bombs.
SER: It's one of his more absurd statements. The NRA represents gun
manufacturers, so their appeal to people to buy more guns is akin to
the tobacco lobby handing out cigarettes in a cancer ward. It's
reprehensible.
They also seem to think a world in which we're all armed is a safer one
or an overall good one. I grew up in a neighborhood where we left our
doors unlocked. There was no crime. We would lock up when we went
on vacation and that consisted of one lock (no deadbolts). That was
what we considered the American dream. If you lived in a bad
neighborhood, you had to have multiple locks, maybe even a gun in
your home. I knew people like this. It was considered unfortunate and
the *goal* would be to move someplace where you don't need to do
this.
The NRA world is one of people in gated communities, where there's a
keycode to enter the grounds, and another one to enter your home.
There are armed security guards, and you are heavily armed, as well.
You have a concealed weapon when you go in an uncontrolled
environment (i.e. out in public).
This is a prison, not a society. I won't live like this,
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Jodi Moisan
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Maybe but I would think that's a very small number. From my experience here in rural West Virginia, I think that the majority of people I know who have grown up around guns (hunters, military kids, kids of police officers...) haven't experienced any kind of tragedy like we've seen in the media.
So most rural West Virginians embrace the govt., liberals and black people?
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Jeremy Simington
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JB said: Outgoing NRA President LaPierre...
Sadly, Wayne LaPierre isn't going anywhere. He's actually the Executive VP of the NRA and their official mouthpiece. He'll probably have the job for life as he is excellent at it (much as it pains me to say so).
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Joe Zhang
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"I just wish folks would understand that gun ownership does NOT equal
gun violence; irresponsible gun ownership does."
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With great power comes great responsibility. IMO, the ideal gun owner is zealous in regards to gun safety and access, training, would be able to accurately assess potential danger. He would not shoot at anyone or anything except in the worst possible situation. In other words, the ideal gun owner would almost be a pacifist. And pacifists would be the unlikeliest sort of customer for the gun industry.
The present model of gun ownership in the U.S. is basically to sell it to anyone who wants it. Only after a tragedy happens do we determine that the person had no business owning guns in the first place. Perhaps he wasn't of sound mind or his family member wasn't. We need enforceable laws to fix this broken way of doing things.
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John Byrne
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"I just wish folks would understand that gun ownership does NOT equal gun violence; irresponsible gun ownership does."•• It has often been said that cigarettes and guns are the only products which, when USED PROPERLY, kill people.
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John Byrne
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I honestly thought it could not REALLY get any more insane, but it HAS!Apparently there is a company out there selling blueprints for the home manufacture of handguns (plastic, fully functional) using 3D printers.
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Jodi Moisan
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Jodi Moisan
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And to further prove that point I give you this.....
 Almost 900 people are RSVPed for a July 4th march on Washington, D.C. where protesters plan to carry loaded rifles. In D.C., openly carrying guns is against the law. But the organizer of the event, libertarian radio host Adam Kokesh, says the march is an act of “civil disobedience” that attempts to prove gun advocates’ point in the “SUBTLEST way possible.”
The event’s Facebook invitation describes the march as a nonviolent demonstration, “unless the government chooses to make it violent”:
Edited by Jodi Moisan on 05 May 2013 at 12:57pm
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Eric Smearman
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"So most West Virginians embrace the gov't, liberals and black
people?"
As a born and raised West Virginian, my guess would be "not so
much".
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