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2014-07-12 -Land of the Free

This Week in Guns: Journalistic Ethics? Never heard of it! Edition

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Posted by badanov 2014-07-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 She notes that gun owners are a very small voting block, so not enough people are there to shame into giving up their Gawd given rights

How can you bitter clingers cling bitterly to your guns when young black guys in Chicago are shooting each other left and right?

No, it doesn't make a bit of sense. Just shut up.

Posted by SteveS 2014-07-12 01:35|| 2014-07-12 01:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Jobs and opportunity await them under the new regime. It's simply a preparatory 'down-sizing' effort don't you see. The old tribal ways will win out, you'll see.

Posted by Besoeker 2014-07-12 07:04|| 2014-07-12 07:04|| Front Page Top

#3 She notes that gun owners are a very small voting block, so not enough people are there to shame into giving up their Gawd given rights

How'd that work in Colorado?

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-12 09:05|| 2014-07-12 09:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Tanner Sports Center had .22LR in 1K bricks at $0.06/round, so prices are dropping

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-12 09:26|| 2014-07-12 09:26|| Front Page Top

#5 "AnaMarie Cox columnist for The Guardian and anal sex aficionado, has some serious objections to Mark Levin’s The Liberty Amendments"

"Levin shot back via Facebook in a post titled: 'Ana Marie Cox, dumb as they get.'"

LOL. Good times good times

Posted by Frank G 2014-07-12 09:31|| 2014-07-12 09:31|| Front Page Top

#6 The real reason why liberals are scared of women with guns. Good two page read.

Posted by Thineng Angailet7166 2014-07-12 09:40|| 2014-07-12 09:40|| Front Page Top

#7 nicely done

Posted by newc 2014-07-12 09:50|| 2014-07-12 09:50|| Front Page Top

#8 Britain and Australia, despite doing away with firearms, still have firearm deaths. One can only presume some of these deaths are with illegally obtained guns at the hands of thugs. It is naive to think that a country will not be faced with tyranny, criminality or terrorism either from without or from within. Doing away with firearms in a country is the dream of tyrants--in this case leftists. Nothing like committing national suicide. During WWII, both the Germans and Japanese were reluctant to take on the U.S. on U.S. soil because of the many firearms owned by citizens.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-07-12 10:25|| 2014-07-12 10:25|| Front Page Top

#9 ...cause, when counted noses, one of the top 'armed forces' in the world, is the American public.

Posted by Procopius2k 2014-07-12 12:03|| 2014-07-12 12:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Yup, P2k - and I'm a proud member of that armed force (as are many others here). :-D

Posted by Barbara 2014-07-12 13:27|| 2014-07-12 13:27|| Front Page Top

#11 From the link at #6:

‘What kind of monster smiles after killing something?’ they say about the woman posing with a tranquilized rhino, but not about the woman giggling while an abortionist executes her baby.

That's pretty much the same point I was trying to make last week when I went off on a rant about cigarettes. These gun control advocates are blatantly hypocritical. If you want to outlaw guns as a public health issue, how can you ignore tobacco and abortion? How can you ignore all the gang and drug related murders in places like Chicago? Are these not far more pressing public health issues?

But I'm afraid the public health angle is just a smokescreen to conceal their fear of citizens who are ready, willing and able to defend themselves.

I personally never even wanted a gun until all these gun control freaks started coming out of the woodwork.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2014-07-12 15:55|| 2014-07-12 15:55|| Front Page Top

#12 Thing, in your link they talk about the fear of christian fundamentalist. They fear christian fundamentalist with guns? YOU BET THEY DO! And for good reason. America was liberated from British rule and the European continent was liberated twice by christian fundamentalist with guns. We are a very dangerous bunch of people. We are not afraid to pick up arms when we feel we absolutely must. Make no mistake, we are the most lethal group of individuals on this planet and when we are pissed off we will not stop until we have attained victory. This scares the living crap out of the far left socialist/fascists that want human sheep.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-07-12 17:48|| 2014-07-12 17:48|| Front Page Top

#13 Abu, if you want to talk about a public health issue, how about cars? They kill something like 40-50k/year.

Of course, as someone said, trying to reduce gun violence by making it harder for citizens to legally buy guns is like trying to reduce drunk driving by making it almost impossible for anyone to get a driver's license.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-07-12 19:53|| 2014-07-12 19:53|| Front Page Top

#14 You know who's even a smaller voting block than gun owners? Gays. Yet the politicians dance and bend over and spread 'em when the gays come around.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2014-07-12 20:08|| 2014-07-12 20:08|| Front Page Top

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