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In reply to the discussion: Why I keep guns in my home. [View all]MessiahRp
(5,405 posts)140. Yep.
And Jury duty is going to people with low post counts and if you want to see the largest mass of those people, check out the Guns board. It's an NRA recruiting ground here because DU policies for this new board are terribly ill conceived at times.
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She must be angry with her family, friends and acquaintances and down on herself.
bluestateguy
Feb 2013
#1
This happened in my family. My cousin killed his girlfriend by accident with a gun.
Maraya1969
Feb 2013
#157
The comparision is sound because it is being compared to killing of someone living in the home.
morningfog
Feb 2013
#118
The purpose of the gun is not to kill an intruder but to save the life of someone in the family
Recursion
Feb 2013
#174
Yet when we are trained it is "shoot to kill"... not maim, slow down, ect...
PerpetuallyDazed
Feb 2013
#184
It's weird, I used to get on juries almost evey time I logged on, but now, never.
SunSeeker
Feb 2013
#141
Same here. I actually know some trolls with 127 posts that have been on more juries than I have.
MessiahRp
Feb 2013
#143
This was a rent-a-cop who drew on two teenagers beating the crap out of an old man
Recursion
Feb 2013
#40
Here are some media reports of brandishing that prevented crimes *IN THE PAST 3 MONTHS*
Recursion
Feb 2013
#37
So on your planet, for every kid verifiably shot, 40 people rack their shotguns unheralded?
Robb
Feb 2013
#156
Yea and how many people are dead from the firing of these guns in the last 3 months?
Maraya1969
Feb 2013
#159
Tell that to my friend who stopped a robbery in progress at the convenience store where he worked.
LAGC
Feb 2013
#152
So you are saying that anything that detracts from the beauty of guns is bullshit?
Whovian
Feb 2013
#110
You posited me saying something that cannot be (rationally) inferred from my actual statements.
Lizzie Poppet
Feb 2013
#114
What universe are you living in? The entire thread is up for all to see that I posited nothing
Whovian
Feb 2013
#115
Much anger in the young man - just the kind of specimen we need toting a pistol around, eh?
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#126
That gives her 6 hides in the last 90 days, or exactly half as many as the OP.
11 Bravo
Feb 2013
#177
"In the evening; gettin' angry; ain't we got fun?" And the transparency page to prove it!
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#135
You must have never owned a firearm, nor read the Owners Manual if you have..
Ghost in the Machine
Feb 2013
#218
WTH? So everytime a woman is attacked and would have chosen to defend herself but
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#36
You are determined to be a dishonest about this as possible, aren't you?
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#88
Until the attacker punches your lights out, and then kills you with your own gun.
Dash87
Feb 2013
#100
And she doesn't look 30 years old, as is the 1983 Kellerman study is with all its massaged data n/t
Nuclear Unicorn
Feb 2013
#38
From a perspective of 71 years, our culture has gotten more fearful and violent,
WHEN CRABS ROAR
Feb 2013
#60
You got 40 Recs, but the same tiresome little ban of pro-NRA shillmeister's gave it their all to
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#69
"it is in poart to discuagg issue gtwettn oher duers but this is talkinb bad about other duers
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#84
And I apologize that two of the posters currently stalking me decided to bring their vendetta
apocalypsehow
Feb 2013
#97
Look at it this way: if you kill yourself or your family with your weapon...
Buzz Clik
Feb 2013
#132
Bigger question: How paranoid are gun owners to think that they are ALWAYS at risk of a shootout?
MessiahRp
Feb 2013
#142
If I had an reliable app for this iPad that would remind me that today was a day ...
spin
Feb 2013
#214
If you think about it in a certain way than we are better off because of them.
aandegoons
Feb 2013
#155