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OneGrassRoot

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4. Deflect much?

Reply to AnotherMcIntosh (Reply #3)

Sun Jul 21, 2013, 12:50 PM

Jul 2013

My point is that Marissa Alexander is an example of someone who I can understand would want to own a gun, legally, for protection, though her ownership and use of the weapon to defend herself worked against her -- and, quite frankly, it's likely because she is a woman, A BLACK WOMAN.

More on Marissa: http://www.letstalkaboutit.info/2012/05/different-views-on-marissa-alexanders_11.html

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Good opinion piece re: gun culture [View all] OneGrassRoot Jul 2013 OP

What is this gun culture of which you speak? AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2013 #1

FEAR....the culture of fear, that's what I'm speaking of. OneGrassRoot Jul 2013 #2

Marissa Alexander? The same Marissa Alexander who innocently fired a "warning shot" through a AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2013 #3

Deflect much? OneGrassRoot Jul 2013 #4

Marissa Davis is a bad poster child for anti-SYG purposes. Igel Jul 2013 #8

It probably didn't help her cause much that, a few months after being released on bail, AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2013 #12

This message was self-deleted by its author Anymouse Jul 2013 #9

Our entire culture of government control bluedeathray Jul 2013 #5

There's a lot of truth in what you said... OneGrassRoot Jul 2013 #6

K & R SunSeeker Jul 2013 #7

Not all of us live in cities . . . Anymouse Jul 2013 #10

Welcome to DU. AnotherMcIntosh Jul 2013 #11

Dallek has the same mindset as the late Richard Hofstadter. MicaelS Jul 2013 #13

^^^ To all the gun advocates ^^^ OneGrassRoot Jul 2013 #14

Read "The .22 Caliber Rorschach Test" MicaelS Jul 2013 #15