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krispos42 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-14-09 01:00 AM
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19. Great. More Italian-mobster stereotypes....
...says this half-Italian.


If this was a couple of black guys in matching shiny sports-team uniforms, sideways baseball hats, and a surfeit of "bling" saying the same thing in a urban accent with thumping rap in the background... oh, man, this place would explode.

K&R for NRA stupidity.
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  -NRA Portrays New Yorkers as Mobsters in Virginia Ad (supporting GOP and flowing guns in Gov's race) villager  Oct-13-09 05:20 PM   #0 
  - huh -- somebody let the unrec'ing gunbots out of the gungeon...  villager   Oct-13-09 05:29 PM   #1 
  - That was very disrespectful  Katya Mullethov   Oct-14-09 12:03 PM   #23 
  - lol  anonymous171   Oct-13-09 05:33 PM   #2 
  - Will we ever see the NRA being irrelevant? (nt)  question everything   Oct-13-09 06:49 PM   #3 
  - Yes...  virginia mountainman   Oct-13-09 07:24 PM   #4 
  - How can the NRA defend those who sell to those unable to pass a background check?  Ikonoklast   Oct-13-09 07:44 PM   #5 
     - The NRA had NOTHING TO DO WITH THAT.  virginia mountainman   Oct-13-09 08:04 PM   #6 
     - It has as much to do with it as your ACLU strawman argument.  Ikonoklast   Oct-13-09 08:15 PM   #7 
        - It was not a strawman...  virginia mountainman   Oct-13-09 08:18 PM   #8 
     - They WERE able to pass a background check. You've been played..  friendly_iconoclast   Oct-13-09 09:00 PM   #10 
        - Are you Serious?? NT  virginia mountainman   Oct-13-09 10:35 PM   #12 
           - Yep. Page 14 of Bloomberg's report:  friendly_iconoclast   Oct-13-09 11:44 PM   #14 
              - You mean Bloomberg's investigators LIED?  slackmaster   Oct-14-09 05:54 PM   #28 
  - When people stop trying to undermine/do away with entirely  JonQ   Oct-13-09 08:23 PM   #9 
     - I always laugh at the naive apologias for the NRA over here  villager   Oct-13-09 10:32 PM   #11 
        - The NRA is just making money off the ACLU's double standard  friendly_iconoclast   Oct-13-09 11:53 PM   #15 
  - Bloomberg made himself into the Willie Horton of gun control.  aikoaiko   Oct-13-09 10:45 PM   #13 
  - McDonnell is giving some payback for a an ad of Bloomberg . FTA:  friendly_iconoclast   Oct-14-09 12:38 AM   #16 
  - Several pro-gun posters here are in favor of requiring a NICS background check...  spin   Oct-14-09 12:51 AM   #17 
  - It's not like Bloomberg is a fan of many Constitutional rights. Google "stop and frisk"  friendly_iconoclast   Oct-14-09 12:58 AM   #18 
  - Great. More Italian-mobster stereotypes....  krispos42   Oct-14-09 01:00 AM   #19 
  - That ad was great!  ManiacJoe   Oct-14-09 01:06 AM   #20 
  - Doesn't it follow that the character in the ad would NOT be a mobster?  Euromutt   Oct-14-09 03:07 AM   #21 
  - While I don't agree with the stereotyping (that's more an antis trick)  proteus_lives   Oct-14-09 03:11 AM   #22 
  - "I don't agree with the stereotyping, except I've just stereotyped 'antis'"  villager   Oct-14-09 01:41 PM   #24 
     - You're right, excuse me.  proteus_lives   Oct-14-09 02:04 PM   #25 
        - So your "apology" is another stereotyping of the "antis?"  villager   Oct-14-09 03:50 PM   #26 
           - Oh, we're not as cute and cuddly as anti-rights gun banners.  proteus_lives   Oct-14-09 05:05 PM   #27 
           - Why am I reminded of the Rodgers & Hart tune, "Sing, Johnny One Note?"  villager   Oct-14-09 06:00 PM   #29 
              - I'm unfamiliar with the tune.  proteus_lives   Oct-14-09 06:28 PM   #32 
                 - well, the clockwork-like repetitive precision of your inflexible, misguided motifs  villager   Oct-14-09 06:49 PM   #33 
                    - Inflexible! There's a good word for you.  proteus_lives   Oct-14-09 06:56 PM   #34 
                       - the obsession with the last word, etc...  villager   Oct-14-09 06:57 PM   #35 
                          - Obession? Last word? No.  proteus_lives   Oct-14-09 07:15 PM   #36 
                             - Well, you stumped me. Though I'm glad to see the turn toward a more genteel conversation  villager   Oct-14-09 07:30 PM   #37 
                                - Well, we've both laid our cards on the table.  proteus_lives   Oct-14-09 08:08 PM   #38 
                                   - Like them? Hell, I'm writing a zombie book right now!  villager   Oct-14-09 10:34 PM   #39 
                                      - Zombie book? Nice!  proteus_lives   Oct-15-09 12:18 AM   #40 
                                      - Well, if you watch your Romero (or your Boyle) closely, you notice those guns always get turned on  villager   Oct-15-09 01:45 AM   #41 
                                         - Or they use those guns.....  proteus_lives   Oct-15-09 02:23 AM   #42 
                                            - Hmm -- have you ever actually watched a Romero movie?  villager   Oct-15-09 02:59 AM   #44 
                                               - Only about a thousand times.  proteus_lives   Oct-15-09 04:35 AM   #45 
                                               - I know the gun parts excite you a whole lot  villager   Oct-15-09 09:21 AM   #46 
                                               - Excite? no. Make sense? Yes.  proteus_lives   Oct-15-09 11:52 AM   #47 
                                               - This would be the same British Army unit that murdered other survivors, and didn't survive?  villager   Oct-17-09 01:30 AM   #49 
                                               - They were able to defend themselves against the infected.  proteus_lives   Oct-17-09 01:48 AM   #50 
                                               - The same unit that planned on raping the female survivors?  villager   Oct-17-09 01:58 AM   #52 
                                               - Which goes back to the psychological issues and not guns.  proteus_lives   Oct-17-09 02:42 AM   #56 
                                      - Zombieland is more funny than a serious post-apocolypse story  krispos42   Oct-15-09 02:43 AM   #43 
                                         - Learning zombie self-defense is vital!  proteus_lives   Oct-17-09 01:54 AM   #51 
                                            - Well, you really can't stop them from rising, if they're the undead, can you?  villager   Oct-17-09 02:00 AM   #53 
                                            - That's why the guide is important.  proteus_lives   Oct-17-09 02:46 AM   #57 
                                            - "Use your head, cut off theirs"  krispos42   Oct-17-09 02:17 AM   #54 
                                               - "No place is safe. Only safer."  proteus_lives   Oct-17-09 02:40 AM   #55 
                                                  - There you go. Agreement is possible, even in the gungeon!  villager   Oct-17-09 03:04 AM   #58 
                                                  - Everytime there is an agreement in the guns forum, an angel gets his wings.  proteus_lives   Oct-17-09 03:55 AM   #60 
                                                  - thank god you didn't say "gets his ammo!"  villager   Oct-17-09 11:45 PM   #61 
                                                  - I was tempted along those lines! Believe you me!  proteus_lives   Oct-18-09 12:06 AM   #62 
                                                  - Oh, I believe you.  villager   Oct-18-09 04:54 PM   #63 
           - Fascinating point, considering the source.  TPaine7   Oct-14-09 06:16 PM   #30 
  - Some New Yorkers are comparable to Mobsters,,,  TPaine7   Oct-14-09 06:22 PM   #31 
  - anybody else think this ad is insanley offensive?  davepc   Oct-15-09 01:17 PM   #48 
     - The RKBA Italians I know in NYC...  OttavaKarhu   Oct-17-09 03:48 AM   #59 
 

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