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In reply to the discussion: NY Magazine: NRA reminds gun-loving voters to fear everything [View all]Hoyt
(54,770 posts)109. Gets you, doesn't it, to think an elderly lady did what all those gunz in your gun safes couldn't?
Gunz are seldom the answer, and most people outgrow the need to fondle them.
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Actually, I think the gun-control side are equally guilty of mongering fear, using fear...
NYC_SKP
Oct 2014
#1
Then fuck the NRA and their distortion and twisting of the second amendment?
Fred Sanders
Oct 2014
#62
I'll go further, screw the NRA and those who sympathize with their promotion of gunz.
Hoyt
Nov 2014
#102
An unarmed elderly lady took him down.. Good guys with guns were of no direct help and indirectly
Hoyt
Nov 2014
#103
Gets you, doesn't it, to think an elderly lady did what all those gunz in your gun safes couldn't?
Hoyt
Nov 2014
#109
Yes. Those who are unarmed must sit and wait until opportunities beyond their control arise. nt
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#33
Or they can carry guns and delude themselves that they're more in control than they are.
Orrex
Oct 2014
#58
Apparently you don't like the term. Perhaps this would be an excellent opportunity to
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#34
"the intent is to equate such mythical people with anyone who...proposes sensible gun legislation"
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#54
The 2A -- as written -- says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#95
I see you're going with the 'ipse dixit'. Always a favorite choice...
friendly_iconoclast
Oct 2014
#91
I've made no such claims beyond fairly obvious observations of what's been posted
Orrex
Oct 2014
#92
You have offered no argument beyond "I declare this to be so. It's obvious"
friendly_iconoclast
Oct 2014
#93
You keep referring to me as a gun fetishist. You were called on it and asked to show your
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#104
Gun control advocacy seems to attract self-proclaimed 'remote sensors'
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2014
#115
'Remote' as in you haven't been able to detect that *I don't own a gun*...
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2014
#120
I have never claimed that you own a gun, nor I have claimed to diagnose psychoses
Orrex
Nov 2014
#121
Did you type that headline with a straight face? If so, I'd hate to sit across a poker table...
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2014
#123
"bullshit demand for "telepsychology" credentials" Can you also kill goats with your mind?
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2014
#113
I'm volleying back what I've been served. If you don't care for it, you are free to...
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2014
#118
Being ignored by someone who claims that a person that does not own a gun...
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2014
#122
It also requires no authority to point out that certain posters get a might testy...
friendly_iconoclast
Nov 2014
#100
Bookmarking. Mind if I employ your bag of hammers the next time the complaint arises? nt
Nuclear Unicorn
Nov 2014
#127
It also led to companies like Magpul moving their businesses out of state with the resulting
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#27
All those are still in exisistence, just not in the sheer numbers of days gone by.
GGJohn
Oct 2014
#68
You're claiming victory for a magazine capacity law the sheriffs have said cannot and will not
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#35
On January 20, 2017, the nation's gun dealers will go into a state of mourning
jmowreader
Oct 2014
#30
The Declaration of Independence has something . . No one has a right to infringe on my
leanforward
Oct 2014
#31
No one is infringing on your right. You're choosing to be afraid of people who have no interest in
Nuclear Unicorn
Oct 2014
#36
You think? I've read the gun manufacturers' profits went through the roof when Obama became
Cha
Oct 2014
#45
Yes, Hillary has an even longer record with voting for increased gun restrictions
aikoaiko
Oct 2014
#47
Coumo and NY's gun laws made Remington decide to expand production elsewhere
Lurks Often
Oct 2014
#52