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(4,142 posts)you support that when your posts use code-words like "ban" and "confiscate". Your use of other language like "Clint Eastwood Syndrome" and "feel masculine" also lead to the inference that your filter is based primarily on gender rather than the Constitution. It represents a certain irony since it was the ability to carry a firearm that leveled the ground between the average size/strength woman and a man intent on her rape and/or murder.
And yep, we now live in Florida where it would be simple to buy a gun & get a concealed carry permit. Nope, I haven't done that and it has nothing to do with Clint Eastwood one way or another.
As you likely know, the past few elections have resulted in only one Democratic President. If you must know, I believed then (and believe it today) that Hillary was the better choice. I almost always vote and always support our nominee even if he's not exactly my choice (and he wasn't). As it turned out in November 2008, I was unable to vote. Serving for several elections as a (Maryland) precinct check-in judge, I normally would have had plenty of time to take 1/2 hour, leave the precinct where I was working and vote in my home precinct - located in a different school.
As it turned out, our long-serving Chief Judge was hospitalized Monday evening and I was elevated to Chief Judge. The increased work load just didn't let me get away. I was on the jon from an ours before polls opened to at least an hour after they closed - when I delivered the voting maching cards & tapes to the regional tally office.