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patrice

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30. Domestic gun issues aside, what about how our troops, you know, the ones we all "support"? What
Fri Jan 25, 2013, 12:22 PM
Jan 2013

about the historically validated probabilities that they end up following these private gun sales into places where those weapons, or weapons sold in the same markets by our big arms competitor, China, have become part of situation that OUR soldiers have to "fix"?

It all starts with gun seeds and escalates into anything and everything else we and others have in our arsenals, including the blood of millions of INNOCENT people.

What is wrong with countries who have those kinds of problems trying to do something about that by soliciting our agreement, and that of other nations around the world, to arms control treaties through the U.N.?

Does 2nd Amendment ideology take precedence over ONE soldier's life? - especially when things COULD be different in a way that would work for everyone, except that it would make our billionaire arms industry, on the tax sugar tit, btw, somewhat less rich.

There will be no Eastern Sports and Outdoor show this year. Lugnut Jan 2013 #1
Complete with regjoe Jan 2013 #2
the show caters to more than gun humpers frylock Jan 2013 #21
Yes, an outdoor show regjoe Jan 2013 #25
more fucking derp.. frylock Jan 2013 #29
LOL! You just go on believing that fantasy regjoe Jan 2013 #31
the "typical outdoorsman" doesn't have an ar15 fetish.. frylock Jan 2013 #33
I don't claim to speak for anybody regjoe Jan 2013 #35
who said anything about banning semi-autos? frylock Jan 2013 #36
I very clearly stated regjoe Jan 2013 #38
i OWN semi-auto firearms, so i really don't know what the fuck you're going on about.. frylock Jan 2013 #39
Domestic gun issues aside, what about how our troops, you know, the ones we all "support"? What patrice Jan 2013 #30
You are grasping at straws regjoe Jan 2013 #34
If you are part of a larger entity that does any of that, including protecting export laws, you are patrice Jan 2013 #37
Lotsa scared Delicate Flowers out there bongbong Jan 2013 #3
Oh yeah, that makes sense. Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #4
No, NRA the same organization that supports Cabela's assault weapons market, also is pushing S.2205 patrice Jan 2013 #5
Now that does indeed make sense! Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #6
The NRA is bascially a manufacturers' trade association. Bushmaster CEO is on their board, so are patrice Jan 2013 #7
Yep. One reason I abandoned them a good while back. Lizzie Poppet Jan 2013 #8
I've always known the US is the biggest arms seller (= with China) in the world but those stories patrice Jan 2013 #9
You mean all those 4+ million voluntary members are all firearms manufacturers? GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #10
You don't have to be arms manufacturers to support those who support arms manufacturers. nt patrice Jan 2013 #11
Kind of hard to buy guns if you don't support the gun makers. N/T GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #12
Surely you're not saying that the business of gun-making cannot survive as a business, without patrice Jan 2013 #13
You are shifting the subject. GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #14
I'm saying it would not be unlikely that both organizations know one another quite well. NRA is one patrice Jan 2013 #15
Read your own post #7. GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #16
Bad business model? They are making huge sales, and huge (for them) profits. GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #17
You appear in #12 to be saying buying guns from gun makers is not enough & one must "support" patrice Jan 2013 #18
By support I mean to oppose overly restrictive laws, and most gun bans. GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #19
Chicken or the egg stuff there. Self-fulfilling prophecies that try to get us to think all of the patrice Jan 2013 #20
Google "Fast and Furious" it wasn't about selling guns to the government & it COULD result in, patrice Jan 2013 #32
that number is highly questionable.. frylock Jan 2013 #22
Prove your assertation, Please. N/T GreenStormCloud Jan 2013 #23
Does the NRA Really Have 4 Million Members? frylock Jan 2013 #24
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good e-mail, patrice! I'm going to send them a similar one lastlib Jan 2013 #27
Thanks lastlib I would be honored if you'd like to use any of my words & attribution isn't necessary patrice Jan 2013 #28
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