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Gun Control & RKBA

TPaine7

(4,286 posts)

26. How's this?

Reply to iverglas (Reply #24)

Thu Jan 5, 2012, 11:11 PM

Jan 2012

It's not abject nonsense that a "progressive paper" would spend two paragraphs on the danger of this woman (or others like her) shooting herself in a story like this. Complete with alarming anecdotes, Brady "expert opinion" and manipulated statistics.

And if you consider my refuting your bullshit to be paying you attentions, your life is sad indeed.

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Yet another teen has used deadly force to protect his home from intruders. [View all] Swede Jan 2012 OP

Good shoot We_Have_A_Problem Jan 2012 #1

Dispatchers need to get on the same page... SteveW Jan 2012 #2

Or perhaps We_Have_A_Problem Jan 2012 #3

Agreed. This isn't the first time a dispatcher has stepped in with pop-up political analysis. nt SteveW Jan 2012 #5

Yeah, they should just get an address, hang up and send a cop. Fourier Jan 2012 #13

Kinda ironic this is reported in a UK paper burf Jan 2012 #4

keep up, now iverglas Jan 2012 #6

How do the progressive media handle stories burf Jan 2012 #12

why is this a "story"? iverglas Jan 2012 #14

This is newsworthy because DragonBorn Jan 2012 #19

Home invasions happen in the UK... We_Have_A_Problem Jan 2012 #32

Yeah, some folks complain about the Mail being RW; they are. To remedy... SteveW Jan 2012 #9

the "follow-up story" iverglas Jan 2012 #10

truth is gejohnston Jan 2012 #15

what abject nonsense iverglas Jan 2012 #17

how naive gejohnston Jan 2012 #20

utterly irrelevant iverglas Jan 2012 #21

The spokesman for DC's mayor gave precisely that reason for why people should be disarmed TPaine7 Jan 2012 #23

if you insist on paying me these attentions iverglas Jan 2012 #24

How's this? TPaine7 Jan 2012 #26

hahaha iverglas Jan 2012 #27

outlandish? gejohnston Jan 2012 #28

Reminds me of Geraldo Rivera's comment following the Tucson Simo 1939_1940 Jan 2012 #30

well said... ileus Jan 2012 #25

Depends on what you mean by "progressive." The gun-prohis at WaPo? Progressive? SteveW Jan 2012 #34

oh? iverglas Jan 2012 #35

He should have just given them what they wanted. Atypical Liberal Jan 2012 #7

Rightous Shoot. Solid defense. DWC Jan 2012 #8

He should get a medal. If more people would kill gangbanger home invaders, the practice would Fourier Jan 2012 #11

Swede, did you have a comment iverglas Jan 2012 #16

All depends on who gets here first. ManiacJoe Jan 2012 #22

I found it google searching the shooting in Oklahoma. Swede Jan 2012 #29

It is, she's just being whiney rl6214 Jan 2012 #31

thanks for sharing Swede, feel good stories like this make my day. ileus Jan 2012 #18

I believe that under the Canadian laws that some posters here oneshooter Jan 2012 #33