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Jim Beard

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29. You have to always have your finger on the trigger

Sun Jul 26, 2015, 07:58 PM

Jul 2015

for the self defense to work all the time. Its just better to have more cops and less guns. I don't want to sleep with my gun for security.

I have done it before and it doesn't work. You have to sleep sometime.

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Rick Perry: let us take our guns to the movies [View all] shenmue Jul 2015 OP

So make a theater that lets you bring a gun tblue Jul 2015 #1

They could just hand out guns along with the 3D glasses. Live and Learn Jul 2015 #6

Yeh, it's not going to be pretty... Helen Borg Jul 2015 #35

Yup. Kang Colby Jul 2015 #2

The TV Talking Head of the Free Press interrupted Perry with something like "Stop with the absurd NRA BS", am I right? Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #4

Great! LiberalLovinLug Jul 2015 #50

I suggest that everyone participating in the upcoming Repub debates Contrary1 Jul 2015 #3

In some places they do. Kang Colby Jul 2015 #7

I doubt that those participating in the Republican debate Contrary1 Jul 2015 #9

Why not? Kang Colby Jul 2015 #14

And how many would have ended up dead ibegurpard Jul 2015 #5

Sure. Kang Colby Jul 2015 #11

My husband and I both have our CCW. He carries a lot. I hardly do demtenjeep Jul 2015 #27

The best place to watch a movie is at home. In_The_Wind Jul 2015 #8

And I can watch in my underwear. Aristus Jul 2015 #18

I make my guns read the book instead. Orrex Jul 2015 #10

Going to be a whole lot more netflix subscribers MoonRiver Jul 2015 #12

Post removed Post removed Jul 2015 #13

We get it, you think that gun free zones are the problem. noted. ProfessorPlum Jul 2015 #20

I'm pretty sure that posters point was that they do not work. N/T beevul Jul 2015 #22

Ya think? ProfessorPlum Jul 2015 #48

Maybe Netflix gave him $100 million to say this? n/t DFW Jul 2015 #15

Perry isn't advising anything I haven't seen here on DU, dozens of times. Paladin Jul 2015 #16

Does anyone know that no one was armed? gwheezie Jul 2015 #17

Careful; pro-gun noob Kang Colby up there is going to claim that no one Aristus Jul 2015 #19

Some people have a rescue fantasy gwheezie Jul 2015 #21

Well the very idea the guns everywhere make us safer is delusional, Aristus Jul 2015 #33

this 1000000% demtenjeep Jul 2015 #28

You have to always have your finger on the trigger Jim Beard Jul 2015 #29

I was told, by someone following the story closely, that there was one Crunchy Frog Jul 2015 #32

Rick Perry must have some sort of ties to Netflix WhaTHellsgoingonhere Jul 2015 #23

Saw it live malaise Jul 2015 #24

The day I feel compelled to carry heat into the movies.... steve2470 Jul 2015 #25

I just hope the people who feel the need to come to the theatre packing MurrayDelph Jul 2015 #26

Somehow I think this would lead to more people getting shot at the movies, not less oberliner Jul 2015 #30

Rick borrowing a page from Archie Bunker. edbermac Jul 2015 #31

he is every bit the demogogue that donald trump is. betterdemsonly Jul 2015 #34

Hey Rick! A box of rocks called and said it was smarter than you. hobbit709 Jul 2015 #36

Got to love the ..... odd_duck Jul 2015 #37

#glassesfail LevelB Jul 2015 #38

Anyone want to invest in a movie where we hand out guns at the entrance? jtuck004 Jul 2015 #39

He just won the stupid contest Moral Compass Jul 2015 #40

Where's the evidence that "good guys with guns" stop/deter crimes? Beartracks Jul 2015 #41

faith based, and biased sample. nt Electric Monk Jul 2015 #42

I really think THEY think, "Well, it works in the movies." n/t Beartracks Jul 2015 #44

The fact that there are now shootings in red states and no "good guys with guns" come to save the craigmatic Jul 2015 #43

That "good guys with guns" notion is apparently based on... Beartracks Jul 2015 #46

I would prefer Jeneral2885 Jul 2015 #45

So, Mr. Perry, do you really think families want to take their kids... Beartracks Jul 2015 #47

Most people can see right through Rick's glasses. -none Jul 2015 #49

Goodhair is an idiot Gothmog Jul 2015 #51