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2015-05-22 -Short Attention Span Theater-

When will we examine our heavily armed culture?

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Posted by badanov 2015-05-22 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 You disarm the thugs and criminals, Institute mandatory sentences for weapon use in crimes, I'll give up my guns willingly, not before.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2015-05-22 01:34|| 2015-05-22 01:34|| Front Page Top

#2 You first, serf...

Posted by badanov 2015-05-22 02:06|| http://www.chriscovert.net 2015-05-22 02:06|| Front Page Top

#3 Do not be too sure the you first strategy won't be tried. Remove guns from cops, then say that since cops do not have guns then nobody should.

FORWARD to the Balitimorification of America!

Posted by Airandee 2015-05-22 06:39|| 2015-05-22 06:39|| Front Page Top

#4 Give us real justice and security and most people will give up their guns or tuck them away for future archeological discovery. However, you know you can't do that, so you whine away about the 'evils' of people who actually practice self defense. People who you would just as easily sacrifice to your false utopian god for your own self centered edification.

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-05-22 07:50|| 2015-05-22 07:50|| Front Page Top

#5 No.... the greatest threat is not a heavily armed population.

The greatest threat is a government that ignores the laws and idiots making "gun free" zones. The second you become disarmed, you become a subject.

Posted by DarthVader 2015-05-22 09:02|| 2015-05-22 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 I'm more concerned about the insidious proliferation of heavily weaponized drivel. On almost every street corner, you can encounter some purveyor of incredibly badly thought out opinions, and most of them expect to be paid for it.

Posted by ed in texas 2015-05-22 09:22|| 2015-05-22 09:22|| Front Page Top

#7 Wife had a conversation with a customer from (scandanavia). Customer said family does not feel safe because the cops are disarmed. Cop has to assess the situation, and then if needs a firearm, has to go back to the vehicle and special unlock a box to brandish a firearm.

Then is fired afterwards no matter the outcome.

Criminals be criminals.

Posted by swksvolFF 2015-05-22 11:13|| 2015-05-22 11:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Well...I haven't read this shit about a million times, have I?

Posted by tu3031 2015-05-22 13:09|| 2015-05-22 13:09|| Front Page Top

#9 I'm sure the thugs of the world (bikers and gangbangers) get all their weapons legally.

I'm also sure they'd happily give up their weapons because then physical strength and willingness to do damage becomes the deciding factor in every confrontation and that tilts the scales massively in their favor.

The author is a fool.

Posted by rjschwarz 2015-05-22 14:51|| 2015-05-22 14:51|| Front Page Top

#10 AN armed populace is the best deterrent to government tyranny, and that time seems closer now than any time in recent memory.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2015-05-22 16:51|| 2015-05-22 16:51|| Front Page Top

#11 I've looked over my collection and from careful and thoughtful examination realized. "I'm not heavily armed enough." So I definitely need to spend more money on ammunition and new guns. Wife needs an AR, I probably want a shotgun of some sort, and I don't have a flamethrower.

Posted by Silentbrick 2015-05-22 21:25|| 2015-05-22 21:25|| Front Page Top

#12 BTW, how does Mexico's even more stringent guns laws keep the weapons out of the cartels' hands? (Besides those supplied by DoJ)

Posted by Procopius2k 2015-05-22 22:15|| 2015-05-22 22:15|| Front Page Top

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