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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:36 PM
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Bring a laser pointer to the next Presidential Town Hall in an open carry state...
and shine it on the back of the head of the idiot/s who are carrying.

I'm told by certain DUers that these aren't really in use by snipers (Secret Service) but wouldn't it be fun to watch the idiot wet his pants when people ask why there's a red laser sight on his noggin?
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rcrush Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:37 PM
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1. How's he going to know he has a red dot on his head?
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trumad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:39 PM
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2. snarf
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:41 PM
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4. Oh, one of his buddies would tell him, right away.
He'd know. Besides, it's not that easy to hold a laser pointer steady. You'd graze his eye with it, no doubt. It'd probably scare the crap out of him, too. However, I'm not sure what the law is about flashing people with lazer pointers. Could be a problem.
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:41 PM
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5. easy, everyone around him will suddenly hit the deck. - n/t
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sui generis Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:52 PM
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16. that is a funny visual
sorry about the lameass people here who don't have enough of a sense of humor to know it was humor. I don't think there will be a healthcare option for the congenitally humorplegic.

At any rate, using a laser pointer in a crowd with a security force present is akin to shouting fire in a movie theatre - probably not a wise idea.

But still funny.
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MidwestTransplant Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:31 PM
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35. Lol and he will be the only one standing there like WTH is going on
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lapfog_1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:51 PM
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39. I think this is the expression that your were looking for...
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Allyoop Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:50 PM
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38. I love it!
Best deep laugh I've enjoyed in a while - just imagining everyone around this creep hitting the floor (or gravel or whatever).
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flvegan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:40 PM
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3. That might be the final push of the "Crazy Button" for some of them.
I envision that some of them may be truly imbalanced and might just whirl, chamber and start firing.
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:41 PM
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6. Agreed. I think that in reality this could be a very bad idea. Too many unstable people involved :^(
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 03:41 PM by GreenPartyVoter
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MineralMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:45 PM
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11. You make a very good point. These guys may well have some
serious paranoid delusions. Something like that could be a trigger, if they're teetering on the edge of rationality. A bad idea, I agree.
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michreject Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:30 PM
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55. It's already chambered
They're all cocked and locked.
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:42 PM
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76. some have probably evolved past the 1911 to double-action semiautos
no need for "crazy carry" with modern technology. ;-)
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michreject Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 07:01 PM
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87. There's still a round chambered
in striker action pistols.
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Lance_Boyle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 01:18 PM
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91. indeed, but they are not carried cocked
unless one is a little bit nutty, like the 1911 guys. ;-)
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Viper Mad Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:42 PM
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7. Pure genius.
Gotta hand it to ya...that stunt sounds like a real winner.
(what's the thingie for sarcasm to the 88th power?)
:eyes:
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gratuitous Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:45 PM
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8. Hey! You could put somebody's eye out with one of those things
It happened to my best friend's cousin's hairdresser's niece! Or nephew. I sorta forget which.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:09 PM
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18. AND bring down airplanes.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:09 PM
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43. Know another way to bring down an airplane?
Tell it that it's boring and that nobody likes it.
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:15 PM
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45. (rimshot)
:D Well done.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:17 PM
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48. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your Grovelbot.
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RamboLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:45 PM
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9. I have a feeling the person with the laser pointer
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 03:46 PM by RamboLiberal
would be the one getting busted or tasered.

I'm thinking something is going to happen in one of these crowds if this continues. Things can get damn volatile outside political events.
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:45 PM
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10. okay... that's just funny.
Okay... that's just funny. :P
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greguganus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:45 PM
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12. Someone already posted your idea a couple of days ago. Could cause someone to get shot. n/t
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:48 PM
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13. That's almost as stupid as carrying a gun to a political event. nt
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Viper Mad Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:52 PM
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17. It's the same thing as POINTING a gun at someone.
grr
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:21 PM
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27. exact same thing. yep.
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Marblehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:48 PM
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14. I would really
like to know who that asshole was talking to in his ear piece. no one asked that question.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 03:50 PM
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15. This is a stupid idea. People could get hurt...
And why do this when it is legal to be armed? If you don't want a gun..fine..but keep your mouth, your posts and your paws off people's guns that want their guns. Our founding fathers knew it was important for the people to be armed. I just don't think you know more than they did.
If you trust the government so much you want to give up the right to bear arms thats fine..but most of us don't and for damned good reason.
Show us where a nation that gave up their arms remained a free society and sooner or later didn't have a dictator take over and we might think about it.
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Ron Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:12 PM
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20. Australia?
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:20 PM
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25. lol
yep.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:26 PM
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31. guess you havent heard of all the homes being invaded...
by thugs kicking the doors in. They know there are no guns there and they are picking on the houses on the outskirts cause it takes the cops so long to get there.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:41 PM
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36. Please. They do the same thing HERE to GET the GUNS.
(I'm outside Houston)

Plus he proved your point, as did I by mentioning the beautiful Netherlands.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:36 PM
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73. They dont kick down the door when the people are home to get the guns...
thats the difference.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 03:31 PM
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83. but they DO.
Our local criminals are extremely stupid.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 08:42 PM
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89. hmmm yes that would have to be the case...
maybe its in the water ;)
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Allyoop Donating Member (147 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:53 PM
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42. England?
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:40 PM
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75. In England now....they have cameras even in their garbage cans...
because they are under total surveillance by their government. Tell me, is that is freedom to you?
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:15 PM
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21. Iraq pre-invasion was *awash* in firearms..
Didn't stop Saddam from having a nice little dictatorship, didn't stop the US invasion either.

And many of those arms were of the dread "assault" variety, like the AK47..
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Viper Mad Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:18 PM
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24. Well hell's bells, where were you when Bushco needed a real rational reason to invade
that sovereign nation? You could have had Fleischer's job!
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:23 PM
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29. I'm a poor liar..
And don't enjoy it..

Fleisher was a poor liar too, but he enjoyed it.

The fact remains that an armed populace is no guarantee that the population will not succumb to a dictator.
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Viper Mad Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:28 PM
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32. Heh heh...true dat. But then that guarantee is less uncertain when the populace IS armed.
:D
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:22 PM
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51. What happens to someone who gets in shootout with the cops?
Eventually the cops bring in enough firepower to kill the shooter, whatever it takes.

Waco being a prime example.
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:52 PM
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80. A Glock is no match against a Hellfire missile.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:37 PM
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69. Let me list some other nations that are armed to the teeth
Somalia... Syria... to a point Myamnar...Congo, Rwanda, not only machetes there... and it had a nice genocide to boot... yugoslavia... should I go on?

Having guns guarantees nothing... except in the land of myth many Americans love to live in.

Here is a piece of reality. the US was never as armed as it is today, not even in the REAL west. In fact, the Real West had quite a bit of honest to goodness gun control.

Oh and here is another secret, shh don't tell anybody, gun control is not gun grabbing, that is pure NRA propaganda... cui bono? It is not the people, that's for sure
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:39 PM
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74. well if you truly think it is so safe to let the criminals know you are unarmed...
go right ahead and post your address here and let them know you don't have a gun.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:53 PM
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41. The difference is many US gun owners are competent, few in Iraq are
They shoot them in the air for celebration and hold them out the window to shoot at troops. Neither approach is effective.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:17 PM
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47. Yes, we are competent, those brown skinned people are not..
:eyes:
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:53 PM
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58. Many of the new gun owners, and a sizeable fraction of us long term ones practice
Even those who hunt once a year site their weapons annually. There were no practice ranges except for the military in Iraq.

Its not racial, its societal and opportunity. Those in IRG and others were quite competent with their weapons. Its practice, practice, practice.
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Fumesucker Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:22 PM
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61. When you live in a desert you don't really need a formal range to learn to shoot..
It ain't rocket surgery, sight picture, sight alignment and BRASS, once you learn it's like riding a bike, you might get a bit rusty but it never goes all the way away. I didn't pick up a gun for over twenty years, just wasn't interested, but when my Marine son in law got out his Glock I surprised both of us by grouping tighter than he could.

Now I practice indoors or in my back yard with an airgun usually at least once a week, I'm considerably better now than I was forty years ago when I was on my HS rifle team and better than when I was a Marine too.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 08:18 PM
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62. I've spent a fair amount of time in the region...
Never seen a civilian practice marksmanship there. I even asked about it a few times. One of my local friends pointed out to me that to infer that some one needed to practice would be offensive. He also said that the holy warriors believe that Allah will take care of that part of things. Thus my comment about it being a cultural thing.

The professional militaries in the ME clearly have gotten beyond that, but the irregulars have not. The ambushes in Iraq and Afghanistan would be much deadlier if there was broad fire discipline and marksmanship training.
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Statistical Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 01:37 PM
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93. It is rocket science but it is science.
Most Iraqi's even the "trained ones" in military or Police have no concepts of sight picture or even that the weapon has sights.

They also don't use safety prefering to hold down the trigger with no round in chamber and walk around with trigger held down routinely.
To fire (spray & pray) pull the chamber handle to slam a round into the chamber and hang on.

Ask your Marine son about the IP and their lack of understanding of what most firearm users consider the absolute basics.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:15 PM
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22. Oh my. First off, I'm a smartass. NOT actually advocating the laserpointer thing...
but can't bring myself to use the damnned "SARCASM" smilie. Ever.

Second, I'll bet there are more guns of wide variety within 10 yards of me right now than you'd even believe. Hubs bought a few extras when Bush shredded the Constitution. Our 13 y/o daughter thinks the 22 is hers.

Third, re your last paragraph: The Netherlands. Etc.

RSVP!
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:29 PM
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34. Then I shall apoligise because I did not recognize your post was ment to be sarcasm..
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:15 PM
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63. You have to remember DUers are accustomed to people saying stupid shit.
If we assumed that anyone here (including established posters) who made a statement suggesting something stupid was actually being sarcastic, we'd be wrong more often than we would be right.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:20 PM
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26. "..but keep your mouth, your posts and your paws off people's guns "
Sarah? Is that you?
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Viper Mad Donating Member (113 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:24 PM
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30. Not Sarah Brady, that's for damn sure
:shrug:
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:45 PM
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77. nope, I am not Sarah,...
I am a vietnam war widow. My husband thought he was protecting the Constitution and all the rights therein...for people like you as well as everyone else.
It would have broke his heart to see how people are actually supporting the attempts to disarm American citizens and to trash what is left of the United States Constitution because they are either traitors or a bunch of chicken shits.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 03:37 PM
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84. Nobody is trying to disarm the citizens, and
I'm sorry about your husband.

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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 08:41 PM
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88. That is kind of you. I do miss him very much.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:09 PM
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44. You'll have to pry my laser-pointer from my cold, dead keychain
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:26 PM
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53. Show me one that did
What a stupid premise.
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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:31 PM
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56. "nation that gave up their arms remained a free society and sooner or later didn't have a dictator"
Oh, come on. Plenty of nations have retained their arms and have been taken over by dictators--domestic or foreign--just the same.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:47 PM
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78. that is also true...however it was not so easy for the dictators to do so.
You can either chose to stand and fight for your nation or you can lay down your arms and bow your heads for the slave chains. That is your choice. Just dont try to make that choice for the rest of us.
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billh58 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:37 PM
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57. Almost ALL
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 05:42 PM by billh58
civilized nations in existence today, with the exception of ours?

Then again, it is so "civilized" to walk around with a "well-regulated" .357 strapped to your leg, that other nations with much lower crime, and accidental death, rates should REALLY consider it.

Edit: Oop, this should have been posted a a response to #15 ("Show us where a nation...")
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:26 PM
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67. Sweeden, Norway, hell most of Europe
and that is after WW II... or are you telling me that these countries are run by dictators?

The US didn't have that many guns either... and you surely know that part about a militia.

The US is a very violent society, that lives in myth, not history.
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winyanstaz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:49 PM
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79. I am telling you these nations are about to become The New World Order.
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LLStarks Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:11 PM
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19. If you do this at a PRESIDENTIAL town hall, the secret service will beat you mercilessly.
Truth.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:16 PM
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23. But an AK47 is alright? COME. ON.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 07:11 PM
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60. I carried an M-1A into an airport without a problem, same thing with shotguns
It was properly cased and marked. I was flying to a competition
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TheWraith Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:16 PM
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64. Nobody's carrying an AK into a presidential event.
Two guys showed up OUTSIDE an event with AR-15s for attention-whoring purposes. Big difference.
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ProgressiveProfessor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:38 PM
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70. You are right but it makes for a great soundbite and massive hyperbole
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 10:53 PM by ProgressiveProfessor
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proud patriot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:22 PM
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28. LOL
:rofl:
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:47 PM
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37. what happens if i alert on the grovelbot?
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 04:52 PM
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40. God kills a kitten?
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:20 PM
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50. And the mess is awful to have to clean up...
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Robb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:17 PM
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46. Try it. I double-dog-dare you.
:D
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:29 PM
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54. Isn't the gravelbot like getting a kick and recommend?
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704wipes Donating Member (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:23 PM
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66. just don't use a laser pointer on the grovel bot
unless you are being sarcastic
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 02:55 PM
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81. Alerting.
:P
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:20 PM
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49. OMG!
:spank:

:spray:

:spank::spank:

It's funny yet it isn't yet fathoming the twit wetting his trousers when overhearing people asking... :rofl:

I always loved black comedy. What's the American term again, "dark humor"?
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:23 PM
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52. OK, now that's downright EVIL!
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 05:31 PM by lunatica
I'm just know I'm going straight to hell with you for enjoying the visual so much!
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msanthrope Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 05:54 PM
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59. I prefer a sign: "Nice Gun. Sorry About Your Penis." n/t
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:18 PM
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65. LOL!
:spray:
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:32 PM
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68. as funny as the visual is, and yes most of these guys ARE essentially cowards
they are looking for excuses.

So I say ignore the crazy uncle. Also sometimes uncle gets really, and i mean this, REALLY unhinged... and they already have rounds chambered, am betting.

Now I know the sniper should beat him to clearing leather, but why take the risk?
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onenote Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:41 PM
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71. my predictions -- no DUer will do this
Edited on Mon Aug-17-09 10:41 PM by onenote
First, anyone who does that will find themselves speaking to the secret service pronto. They don't like it when civilians mess around with the folks they are watching. Apart from its being a distraction, the service won't know whether that is some sort of signal being sent to the person they're watching.

Second, I doubt any DU will do this, hopefully because they're smart enough not to, but at very least because the one's thinking about doing it are probably all talk. Which in this case is a good thing.
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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-17-09 10:46 PM
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72. Get 'em in the eyes if you really want to fuck with them.
:evilgrin:
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 03:17 PM
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82.  The defensive projections are quite dramatic
Suggest bringing a laser pointer to a Presidential press conference and you get a thread filled with "don't take my guns", and "the New World Order...", "Iraqi's are bad shots", etc.

The defensive projections are quite dramatic.
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elehhhhna Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 03:40 PM
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85. I know! Let's get back to
"Lasers"
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LanternWaste Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 03:44 PM
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OMG! LASERS!!11!!
OMG! LASERS!!11!!

(I need a drink... :) )
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blogslut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 03:44 PM
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86. I love ya but I think that's it's a bad idea
Pointing lasers at armed people with elevated adrenal levels can only incite disaster.
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-..__... Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-18-09 08:49 PM
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90. Silly idea...
but, nonetheless...

how many people here are aware that inexpensive (even expensive ones), red laser pointers are ineffective or useless during daylight hours?
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-20-09 01:23 PM
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92. I'm thinking about holstering a squirt gun....
and attaching one of these to a strap to wear on my shoulder:

I think it would be more productive to demonstrate how ridiculous they look.
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