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Gun Control Reform Activism

flamin lib

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7. My wife has an inordinate fear of snakes.

Reply to redstatebluegirl (Reply #5)

Sat Jul 12, 2014, 03:24 PM

Jul 2014

I tell her that very very few snakes are poisonous and even then they are more scared of you than you are of them. She comes back with, if that's the case that makes them all the more dangerous cause anything that scared can lash out at any time!

Fear, rational or not, is a strong motivation and the industry exploits it most expertly.

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This message was self-deleted by its author [View all] billh58 Jul 2014 OP

But the ones who do have them have LOTS of them! redstatebluegirl Jul 2014 #1

They are the ones who billh58 Jul 2014 #2

This message was self-deleted by its author redstatebluegirl Jul 2014 #3

Yes, household count is down but number of guns / household is up. flamin lib Jul 2014 #4

So they can defend their 1950 version of America redstatebluegirl Jul 2014 #5

My wife has an inordinate fear of snakes. flamin lib Jul 2014 #7

I support the Second Amendment billh58 Jul 2014 #8

LOL! billh58 Jul 2014 #6