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In reply to the discussion: Why I keep guns in my home. [View all]SunSeeker
(51,550 posts)141. It's weird, I used to get on juries almost evey time I logged on, but now, never.
Seems ever since they went to the new system that is only supposed to catch you for jury service when you click into a forum rather than a post, I have not gotten on a jury, and it's been weeks.
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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