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sinkingfeeling

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28. Why does it even matter? If the NRA can claim Parkland students are
Fri Feb 23, 2018, 01:37 PM
Feb 2018

'crisis actors'? Besides this is the age of post truth.

Typical bully type. All bluff and bluster. BSdetect Feb 2018 #1
hmmmmm Motley13 Feb 2018 #2
Nervous disorder? At first, I thought perhaps bone spurs? ... SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #3
Brain spurs. (nt) klook Feb 2018 #6
damn! RoBear Feb 2018 #23
Razor sharp comment! kairos12 Feb 2018 #25
That's the problem for those of us in the "Viet Nam generation." maddiemom Feb 2018 #14
+ 1 hibbing Feb 2018 #73
My number was 301 in '71 bigbrother05 Feb 2018 #30
In 1970 my number was 180 and got my invitation to participate in June aka-chmeee Feb 2018 #40
i don't remember it very well barbtries Feb 2018 #41
When you think about it DownriverDem Feb 2018 #34
Well, I certainly had one after Vietnam. Fortinbras Armstrong Feb 2018 #65
I watched as well.... SergeStorms Feb 2018 #62
Am happy for you as well. Vietnam destroyed my first marriage. He was never the same secondwind Feb 2018 #69
Now THAT........... MyOwnPeace Feb 2018 #75
The reason has still not been proven atreides1 Feb 2018 #4
Either Way, The Fake Tough Guy. . . ProfessorGAC Feb 2018 #7
Let this be the distraction of the day..instead of baldspot...eom asiliveandbreathe Feb 2018 #5
Wayne's not in it for the guns -- he's in it for money and power. eppur_se_muova Feb 2018 #8
That's interesting. njhoneybadger Feb 2018 #10
LaPierre reminds me greatly of Renfield from Stoker's Dracula... Raster Feb 2018 #13
The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety. Now it has become an industry owned shill keithbvadu2 Feb 2018 #39
Yeah, I got out of it when the started that "gubmint bad" crap in the late 80's. Ligyron Feb 2018 #56
🐤🐦🐤🐦🐤🐔🐣🐤🐦🐤🐦🐤🐔 irisblue Feb 2018 #9
Just another liar Farmer-Rick Feb 2018 #11
Kick dalton99a Feb 2018 #12
don't know BUT bluestarone Feb 2018 #15
Scratch a gun-humper, find a lily-livered coward underneath. smirkymonkey Feb 2018 #16
Agreed! kairos12 Feb 2018 #26
I had older brothers who could not dodge the draft. Blue_true Feb 2018 #17
1969--my brother was in the Navy by June of that year,served for six years. Bengus81 Feb 2018 #18
That's why he opposes mental health limits relayerbob Feb 2018 #19
He'd heard of fragging. snort Feb 2018 #20
How about Ted Nugent Timmygoat Feb 2018 #21
Why hunt something that can shoot back? Ligyron Feb 2018 #57
Itchy finger syndrome I presume? randr Feb 2018 #22
Is there any proof supporting this? onenote Feb 2018 #24
Why does it even matter? If the NRA can claim Parkland students are sinkingfeeling Feb 2018 #28
Because all LaPierre has to do is produce records showing he had a student deferment onenote Feb 2018 #29
Then why hasn't he produced them? Charges about his deferment has sinkingfeeling Feb 2018 #32
Let me ask you something onenote Feb 2018 #35
No, but again does not matter. What is the point of any meme posted on DU? sinkingfeeling Feb 2018 #45
Your evidence supporting that is...? LanternWaste Feb 2018 #37
Well, it would have been a lot simpler to get a student deferment onenote Feb 2018 #38
But student deferment is conditional, needing to be renewed and supported aka-chmeee Feb 2018 #42
Exactly! Paka Feb 2018 #54
That's the kind of thing you allege will "discredit us." LanternWaste Feb 2018 #85
At least Charlton Heston fought in WWII, unlike this chickenhawk. muntrv Feb 2018 #27
Did he have a pimple on his ass? lpbk2713 Feb 2018 #31
another republican coward like cheney, trump, nugent, limbaugh beachbum bob Feb 2018 #33
Was just about to add this & Newt b. 1943 received student, appalachiablue Feb 2018 #44
Now now....Limbaugh had a real bad pimple on his ASS and couldn't serve..... Bengus81 Feb 2018 #80
Limbaugh may have had a student deferment FakeNoose Feb 2018 #81
I avoided the draft, too. Stinky The Clown Feb 2018 #36
I avoided the draft too, served 4 years in the USAF, same as my brother beachbum bob Feb 2018 #46
Doesn't respect guns nor is he a patriot....he is just a fascist ideologue and money grubber. Thomas Hurt Feb 2018 #43
Wayne LaPierre couldn't be trusted with a gun in 1969. . . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2018 #47
If it's true use it, if it was a student deferment use it.... NoMoreRepugs Feb 2018 #48
To be fair he did have a "nervous disorder." yellowcanine Feb 2018 #49
Would that it was Muzzle In Mouth Disorder. BobTheSubgenius Feb 2018 #50
Punk ass probably stood in the mirror drawing his gun like John Wayne SummerSnow Feb 2018 #51
I just f_______ shot myself keithbvadu2 Feb 2018 #61
typical gun humper Skittles Feb 2018 #52
Nervous Nelly SayItLoud Feb 2018 #53
Nervous Disorder called fear. Dan Feb 2018 #55
On the list of cos. that support the NRA torius Feb 2018 #58
He went to school at my alma mater! nuxvomica Feb 2018 #59
Just another fake "tough guy" Sarg Feb 2018 #60
Red flag him with the FBI Miigwech Feb 2018 #63
We should keep this post very visible for a long time. BSdetect Feb 2018 #64
Nope. Never wondered. GoCubsGo Feb 2018 #66
As a veteran, I don't care WHY LaPierre wasn't in the Army jmowreader Feb 2018 #67
Still crazy after all these years... A2er Feb 2018 #68
I was going to say bone spurs. :-) iluvtennis Feb 2018 #70
I don't know if this is true or not. Gore1FL Feb 2018 #71
Come on, show some compassion LaPierre has suffered WPOS syndrome since 1969 rustydog Feb 2018 #72
SNOPES: unconfirmed RainCaster Feb 2018 #74
GOPocrisy. oasis Feb 2018 #76
Wonder why I havent seen this on TV Gabi Hayes Feb 2018 #77
one thing du has taught me across these years is to site sources and fact check orleans Feb 2018 #78
He had a legitimate worry DFW Feb 2018 #79
Mental issue-can't buy or own guns. invrabbit Feb 2018 #82
Another right-wing hypocrite! The_FOX_Hound Feb 2018 #83
And he does make "the big bucks" as I recently learned Rhiannon12866 Feb 2018 #86
Add him to my list of people who if the enemy had Eliot Rosewater Feb 2018 #84
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