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Gun Control & RKBA

iverglas

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35. oh?

Reply to SteveW (Reply #34)

Sun Jan 8, 2012, 05:52 PM

Jan 2012

The question was: What "slant", exactly, would a "progressive" paper apply to a story like this?

How could the answer to that depend on what is meant by "progressive"?

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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

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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