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In reply to the discussion: Bill to allow state workers to bring guns to workplace passes through committee [View all]PavePusher
(15,374 posts)26. And if someone is twisted enough to do that....
a law to the contrary would stop them? Really?
I'm sure that you know this proposed law does nothing to enable criminal action. Despite your hyperbole.
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Maine-ah
Feb 2012
OP
It's very heart warming that you think a law makes a difference one way or another in that scenario.
AtheistCrusader
Feb 2012
#22
provided they have a concealed weapons permit and keep the firearm locked in their vehicle ...
AlbertCat
Feb 2012
#7
Women are a growing percentage of gun owners, and that includes CCW holders
ProgressiveProfessor
Feb 2012
#38
Exactly. You might need to kill a deer or shoot some idiot who still has the turn signal blinking...
Moonwalk
Feb 2012
#16
So, for all the folks who *did* care about a $500 fine, they won't have a gun available?
boppers
Feb 2012
#88
More GOP/NRA douchebaggery - a Maine GOP lawmaker was arrested last year for brandishing a gun
jpak
Feb 2012
#29
Do all NRA members fall under your wide douchebag net, or is it just some of them?
Skwid
Feb 2012
#35
Yea, you are right -- the NRA's Wayne LaPierre is just a lovable ole right winger.
Hoyt
Feb 2012
#42
Right? About what? I simply asked a question. Do I need to repeat it? To the same person?
Skwid
Feb 2012
#43
Sure. No bad guy would ever violate a law that says he can't take a gun...anywhere, right?
Skwid
Feb 2012
#47
Couldn't you have stuffed a couple MORE insults in that one post? I don't really care about all
Skwid
Feb 2012
#53
Just FYI, hotshot, I've been gay since long before you were a gleam in the milkman's eye
Skwid
Feb 2012
#67
Only a tiny minority of successful self-defense by gun end up with any shots being fired....
PavePusher
Feb 2012
#80
And MA's laws against guns in cars impeded him not a whit. So what's your point?
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2012
#60
"More than one person like you didn't bother to shoot up their workplace." Charming,
friendly_iconoclast
Feb 2012
#78
Or maybe a gruntled one will stop a mass murderer and make them happy they did pass it.
Skwid
Feb 2012
#51
Toter's dream -- I'm going to save everyone with my gun. Please, we don't need your protection.
Hoyt
Feb 2012
#55
As much as I regret it, I am obligated to "protect" you if possible. My gun is part of my uniform.
Skwid
Feb 2012
#57
Wish you could have talked to my policeman father-in-law. He'd have straighten out the cowboys
Hoyt
Feb 2012
#64
No, but this is what our teabagger State government thinks is important NM
high density
Feb 2012
#115
Whole country is turning into AZ. Legislature can't/won't do anything about real problems,
Doctor_J
Feb 2012
#70
It's refreshing to see so much bigotry and misinformation on parade in the responses to this thread
slackmaster
Feb 2012
#101
Who will be courageous enough to stand up for the right of high school students to bring guns to
Douglas Carpenter
Feb 2012
#130