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Ezlivin

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11. Why wasn't she armed?

Reply to Omaha Steve (Original post)

Sun Jul 5, 2015, 09:25 AM

Jul 2015

If she had a gun this wouldn't have hap…..

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Woman struck by bullet while at Pennsylvania amusement park [View all] Omaha Steve Jul 2015 OP

Another "responsible" gun-owner, no doubt... hlthe2b Jul 2015 #1

They're all responsible... Erich Bloodaxe BSN Jul 2015 #2

#1 riversedge Jul 2015 #8

+1 daleanime Jul 2015 #9

Correction, they are all responsible right up until the moment they get caught. -none Jul 2015 #14

I'd be willing to bet the guy who fired this bullet EL34x4 Jul 2015 #7

Or at least a handful of beers ago. (n/t) thesquanderer Jul 2015 #17

"someone firing a gun to celebrate the holiday" a lot of gun shots last night SW houston area. Sunlei Jul 2015 #3

What similarity to the Middle East. Scary. Vinca Jul 2015 #4

I don't know if it is Idiocracy or what... EL34x4 Jul 2015 #16

No this has always happened on the 4th. It was much worse, more shots fired back before about 2009. Sunlei Jul 2015 #20

It wasn't commonplace in rural PA, at least 55 years ago. PADemD Jul 2015 #25

I don't think it was very common 30 years ago awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #26

I measured the gentrification of Third Ward as it turned into the Museum District DamnYankeeInHouston Jul 2015 #19

probably the police call those 'the good old days before cell phones' Sunlei Jul 2015 #21

4th of July at Kennywood malthaussen Jul 2015 #5

When I was a kid we went to Kennywood montanacowboy Jul 2015 #18

I have an uncle in Pittsburgh awoke_in_2003 Jul 2015 #28

I shot a bullet into the air... malthaussen Jul 2015 #6

Kennywood. Gotta be. alphafemale Jul 2015 #10

If we knew the caliber hollowdweller Jul 2015 #23

Probably lots of hunting going on after dark... Thor_MN Jul 2015 #24

lol. Yeah. alphafemale Jul 2015 #29

Why wasn't she armed? Ezlivin Jul 2015 #11

"Deadeye Dick" pocoloco Jul 2015 #12

I got it. skamaria Jul 2015 #30

no matter how many guns she had would not have helped her in this case samsingh Jul 2015 #13

340 million guns, billions and billions of bullets, millions of whacked out NRA lovers and racists on the run. Fred Sanders Jul 2015 #15

This happens way too often. Google "hit by stray bullet" hollowdweller Jul 2015 #22

If the NRA would only dissolve, we might have a chance at gun control. nt valerief Jul 2015 #32

CSI had an episode on this sort of thing PatrynXX Jul 2015 #27

If she ONLY had a machine gun she was firing in all directions at all times, valerief Jul 2015 #31

Every July 4th, gun owners shoot into the air to celebrate freedumb. onehandle Jul 2015 #33