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patrice

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29. You know? I really wasn't trying to smear you, just seeking clarification as to who is whom. If you

Reply to hack89 (Reply #27)

Mon Feb 11, 2013, 12:46 PM

Feb 2013

want authentic support from people who really are honestly trying to figure out for themselves what to do, PLEASE reconsider your word choices. Why create problems where there don't necessarily have to be any?

Perhaps you can understand that this is the internet; there are ALL kinds of people posting under names that are not their real names (including yourself, I might observe) & saying everything imaginable under the sun, so maybe you can see why SOME people just need clarification about the various actors out there. If all of you are not crazy-militia, then it would also be logical that not all of us are about "smear" anything.

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House Dems To Bring Victims Of Gun Violence To State Of The Union [View all] kpete Feb 2013 OP

"Let them see what they have done." hedgehog Feb 2013 #1

They should bring those two old ladies that were shot by the LAPD mwrguy Feb 2013 #2

Why do gun owners have more "rights" than other people do? nt patrice Feb 2013 #3

Must be the same reason 1%ers do. nt valerief Feb 2013 #6

because some people never learned to count past 2 frylock Feb 2013 #14

They don't. nt hack89 Feb 2013 #22

So, we DO control that militia thing? Or can any gun owners just decide they are militia & patrice Feb 2013 #26

No American has the right to over throw the government. hack89 Feb 2013 #27

You know? I really wasn't trying to smear you, just seeking clarification as to who is whom. If you patrice Feb 2013 #29

True - unless the government becomes a tyranny. Psephos Feb 2013 #30

So what customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #4

Which group do you think would be larger? JDPriestly Feb 2013 #5

My money is on the latter - n/t primavera Feb 2013 #7

And the former who defended themselves using assault weapons even thinner Amonester Feb 2013 #20

Gun nuts make those stories up ad nauseum. onehandle Feb 2013 #10

+1,000. n/t. apocalypsehow Feb 2013 #11

The tide is not turning customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #15

Groundwork. Universal Background Checks is what will most likely be wrestled from the NRAGOP. onehandle Feb 2013 #24

Will there be some extension of background checks? customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #25

because most stories of "successful DGU" are usually about as real as letters to the Penthouse Forum frylock Feb 2013 #16

The Rethugs will do everything possible customerserviceguy Feb 2013 #17

they can look for the next 20 years, while the victims of gun violence stack up like cordwood.. frylock Feb 2013 #19

And concocted for the same reason. nt onehandle Feb 2013 #28

Actually, the GOP would just bring in GUNS... Ken Burch Feb 2013 #18

Good. Zoeisright Feb 2013 #8

Spot. On. Reply. apocalypsehow Feb 2013 #12

This is a good move. Third Doctor Feb 2013 #9

Excellent idea: let America see those faces, a few of the millions of victims of gun violence, apocalypsehow Feb 2013 #13

Are the two newspaper ladies the cops shot in Torrance going to be there? n/t Psephos Feb 2013 #21

With the chances of gun control legislation passing so slim hack89 Feb 2013 #23