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LaurenG

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1. I too own guns, and a .22 rifle

Reply to obamanut2012 (Original post)

Sun Jul 22, 2012, 10:32 AM

Jul 2012

I target practice and would never use them to harm another living thing unless it was my only choice of survival.

I am the daughter of a WWII Master Sargent who taught all of us to shoot. His reasoning was based on what Hitler did and the Cuban missile crises. He told us to fight should we ever find ourselves needing to choose between surrender and a fight.

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In North Carolina, you cannot just buy a gun from a blanket in a parking lot [View all] obamanut2012 Jul 2012 OP

I too own guns, and a .22 rifle LaurenG Jul 2012 #1

+1 obamanut2012 Jul 2012 #3

Maybe we ought to make the .223 round illegal to own because... Bonhomme Richard Jul 2012 #2

Umm, what? Marinedem Jul 2012 #4

See below on the .223 Remington and the other was a typo, should be 7.62 Bonhomme Richard Jul 2012 #5