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In reply to the discussion: Photo of President Obama compensating for an inadequate package: [View all]CTyankee
(63,901 posts)71. And the point of the picture is that shooting a gun in a controlled, safe environment
by a person legally able to have that gun, well trained, is NOT what gun safety advocates are complaining about. It's pretty obvious...geez, he's even protecting his ears...I don't think he'll be featured on a future installment of an "I just effin shot myself!" thread...
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He's the President. We know he's not going to kill any innocents with it. nt
EastKYLiberal
Feb 2013
#1
Ya know, that whole "pearl-clutching" meme is getting fairly exhausted.
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#57
"Nobody is going to take away your guns" is not a meme. It's a fact. It isn't meant to imply
Squinch
Feb 2013
#64
You said that you would be made a criminal. For criminalization there has to be a law that has
Squinch
Feb 2013
#79
"given a free pass to do something others would make me a criminal for doing." nt.
Squinch
Feb 2013
#83
Yes. That is what I wrote and that is what I meant. There are plenty who demand gun bans
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#92
i'm sure he's okay with reasonable controls and doesn't need to carry it around all the time
samsingh
Feb 2013
#2
Get back to us when he slings it across his chest and walks into a J.C. Penney's.
MotherPetrie
Feb 2013
#5
But the head of the NRA represents the full blown paranoids more than the other members who...
JoeBlowToo
Feb 2013
#50
It also reduces recoil to a certain extent....less impact to the shoulder. nt.
OldDem2012
Feb 2013
#51
Will it make any difference with the other who demand he take their guns away?
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#23
Well I certainly hope for Michelle's sake that the DU conventional wisdom is false (nt)
Nye Bevan
Feb 2013
#36
No, gun nuts are the inadequately endowed. Shooting a gun or even owning a gun
SWTORFanatic
Feb 2013
#44
And the point of the picture is that shooting a gun in a controlled, safe environment
CTyankee
Feb 2013
#71
at least he never let a pilot carry him in the back seat of a jet so he could land on an aircraft
datasuspect
Feb 2013
#78