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Atticstatic my friend, I think you and I have reached a common ground. I salute your honesty.
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Sorry, CW - Obama's been too busy thumbing his nose at the people who voted for him.
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I agree 100% on the texting portion of this, as well as some others.
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As a motorcycle rider in this town, I'm all for # 7. # 9 already happened. Obummer thumbing his nose at Republicans : been there , done that.
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The Coulter - Maher thing may already have happened, at least as a fling. The reason I say that is there is a rumor that Coulter is easy. An Oregon Coast author, Matt Love, contends in one of his books that he connected with Coulter after a panel discussion they both participated in back East, down in the building's parking garage. Matt Love says he discovered that Coulter wears panties with the pattern of the Confederate Flag. So, when Coulter appeared on Maher's Real Time in October 2012 and I noticed warm, trembling thighs between them, I figured they were headed for or had just had a lowering of the Stars and Bars.
Arizona in the Rose Bowl is like waiting for the End Times or the 2nd Coming of Jesus Christ. Ain't gonna happen, man. It's just superstition. The University of Arizona Wildcats Football Team was cursed by Margola, a Scum Devil Witch, many decades ago. That spell blocks the 'Cats path to Pasadena. L.A. is going to earthquake off into the Pacific anyway, so it's safer to play Nevada in Albuquerque, where Good Witch Freya cast a magic luck spell that will assure Wildcat victories over there well into the future.
As to no Arizona leader embarrassing the state during 2013, no worries there. Oregon just took that position over with three county sheriffs writing to Veep Joe Biden to let him know they are not enforcing any gun rules they consider unconstitutional. Given that the Oregon State Constitution, passed in 1859, contained an exclusion clause that made it illegal for African Americans to live in Oregon until it was repealed until 1926, it is not too surprising that these three KKKer sheriffs would demonstrate such disrespect toward President Barrack Obama and collectively offset Sheriff Joe in Arizona, if that's possible? The NRA has already taken credit for the three law dogs' unfortunately disrespectful letters.
Nice column, Mr. Danehy. I enjoy your writing immensely.
If you want to read Matt Love, who also writes well, you can see his regular column at: http://www.oregoncoasttoday.com/matt-love.…. His books are at: http://nestuccaspitpress.com/. The book titled Sometimes a Great Movie contains allegations of a significant number of Paul Newman progeny populating villages on Oregon's Coast, where he filmed Sometimes A Great Notion back in 1970-71.
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Way to phone it in, Tom. Start the new year with leftovers.
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"In God we Trust" has been the official motto since 1956.
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How about the fact that 94% of Homicides in the US are done with something other than an "assault weapon"? So you're rallying, whooping and hollerin' about a *nothingburger!*.
A worthless piece of "feel good" legislation that will do nothing but inconvenience lawful gun owners.
The magazine ban? Worse than worthless! The "gun nuts" saw you coming and imported hundreds of millions of them, which will all be grandfathered, and stored in little "weapons caches" throughout a a hometown near you by lawful (but fearful) gun owners, ready for a thief to steal and use against your precious children.
The ban on online sales of ammo? Well, that will raise the cost of ammo, making the "gun nuts" in your hometown less likely to practice. Smooth move!.
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Have any of you seen the video of those 2 guys from Mass. who got the shit beat out of them with bats and tire irons by a gang of thugs out side a pizza joint in N.Y.C. Bet they wish they had a gun.
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Hey, folks! Check out the article below! It states the case FOR gun ownership a lot better than I can!
http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/12/hey-lefties-heres-an-example-of-the-need-for-assault-rifles/
Hey Lefties! Here’s An Example Of The Need For “Assault Rifles”
by Tim Brown
I used the term “assault rifles” in the title to get your attention. Now let me explain that I do not believe they are assault rifles. They are merely rifles capable firing many rounds quickly. The Left gun control crowd has been saying that there is no need for these kinds of weapons, but my friends nothing could be further from the truth and I want to share with you just one instance that everyone should be able to understand just how needy these weapons are.
The year was 1992, twenty years ago, when following a jury trial, four Los Angeles Police Department officers were acquitted, in April, after being accused in the video recorded beating of a black American named Rodney King.
As a result, people throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area rioted over six days because of the verdict. They engaged in widespread looting, assault, arson, and even murder. The damage these criminals caused was well over $1 billion!
The rioting finally came to a halt after the California National Guard, along with U.S. Marines from Camp Pendleton were called in to help stop them.
During the riots, more than 60 people were killed and over 4,000 were injured.
On April 30, the second day of the riots, Korean-Americans saw the police fall back from Koreatown, leaving them to defend themselves in the midst of heavy looting and fires. A store owner at the time, Jay Rhee, told the Los Angeles Times, “we have lost faith in the police.”
The Times reported in May of 1992:
In the shadow of a flaming mini-mall near the corner of 5th and Western, behind a barricade of luxury sedans and battered grocery trucks, they built Firebase Koreatown.
Richard Rhee, owner of the supermarket on the corner, had watched as roving bands of looters ransacked and burned Korean-owned businesses on virtually every block.
But here, it would be different.
“Burn this down after 33 years?” asked Rhee, a survivor of the Korean War, the Watts riots and three decades of business in Los Angeles. “They don’t know how hard I’ve worked. This is my market and I’m going to protect it.”
From the rooftop of his supermarket, a group of Koreans armed with shotguns and automatic weapons peered onto the smoky streets. Scores of others, carrying steel pipes, pistols and automatic rifles, paced through the darkened parking lot in anticipation of an assault by looters.
“It’s just like war,” Rhee said, surveying his makeshift command. “I’ll shoot and worry about the law later.”
From tiny liquor stores in South-Central Los Angeles to the upscale boutiques in Mid-Wilshire, Korean store owners have turned their pastel-colored mini-malls into fortresses against the looter’s tide.
For many store owners, the riots have become a watershed in the struggle for the survival of their community.
The store owners shot off at least 500 rounds into the sky and ground to break up masses of people that were looting. They could have only accomplished that with the types of weapons they were using.
By the end of that first day of defending themselves, they have killed four looters and beat back the mob that had moved into their area.
AR-15Though they desperately tried to get the police to respond, even asking “Where were you when we needed you?” police would not show up for another 24 hours. Additionally, it was reported that 200 police uniforms had been stolen and according to a Korean radio announcer at the time, “We cannot trust a person just because they are wearing a uniform.”
Eventually things were brought under control. However, understand that the Clinton signed “assault weapons ban” was just two years later. Imagine if that had been in place when the rioting took place. It is highly possible that many of these Korean-Americans would not have been able to defend themselves, their property or their families and obviously the police were not very effective.
So I ask those who may read this article who are in favor of gun bans, more gun laws, and simply more control, are you willing to simply stand for government telling you how you can and cannot defend yourself, your family and your property? You better think this through before you go calling for it. After all, if the police in LA will abandon the people of Koreatown, what makes you think they won’t leave you to fend for yourself should something similar take place in your neighborhood?
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Reading your horseshit once was bad enough, if you want to add a post script you shouldn't bother to include your entire comment again before it.
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Somewhere between 40-50% of all firearm deaths are by suicide. This is homicide of the self, however, is it truly accurate to include these deaths? It would be if the ownership of a firearm was highly correlated with the rate of suicide (it is not). So, Tom's mathematical argument takes a massive 40-50% hit (Oops! That could be construed as violent imagery! Remember 23 months ago when all the media hacks had their knickers in a twist over any perceived violent word/picture imagery? Seems the average American did't fall for that Shinola argument and it died without a wimper -OOOOooo, there I go again with the violent imagery).
Re: Tom's argument against "Guns provide us with protection from a tyrannical government."
Shockingly, a long time sports coach for young adults, Tom argued against the ability of an outclassed, out experienced and out-equipped team having the ability to beat a superior team. The history of warfare and revolution, as well as the history of human sport, is replete with examples of the "inferior" besting the "superior," even when the betting odds were long.
Blah, blah, blah... I could continue picking apart Tom's argument, however, it has become boring as, ah...well, shooting fish in a barrel.
OOOOOOooooo! For the few lefties that believe in hell, they surely are thinking I'm going to hell for that last comment. For the easily bunched panties crowd, that was NOT a threat against anyone. It is a long used idiom. Geez, the disclaimers one has to write when dealing with the 21st century sensitive set.
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First, somewhere between 40-50% of all firearms deaths are by suicide. This is homicide of the self, however, is it truly accurate to include these deaths? It would be if the ownership of a firearm was highly correlated with the rate of suicide (it is not). So, Tom's mathematical argument takes a massive 40-50% hit (Oops! That could be construed as violent imagery! Remember 23 months ago when all the media hacks had their knickers in a twist over any perceived violent word/picture imagery? Seems the average American wouldn't fall for that Shinola and they dropped it).
Re: Tom's argument against "Guns provide us with protection from a tyrannical government."
Shockingly, a long time sports coach for young adults, Tom argued against the ability of an outclassed, out experienced and out-equipped team having the ability to beat a superior team. The history of warfare and revolution, as well as the history of human sport, is replete with examples of the "inferior" besting the "superior," even when the betting odds were extremely long.
Blah, blah, blah... I could continue picking apart Tom's argument, however, it has become boring as, ah...well, shooting fish in a barrel.
OOOOOOooooo! For the few lefties that believe in hell, they surely are thinking I'm going to hell for that last comment. For the easily bunched panties crowd, that was NOT a threat against anyone. It is a long used idiom.
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What is needed is a clear minded, level headed discussion based on logic and rationale without the distortions of idealogy. In my experience, that's almost impossible with gun advocates. I've even been told that I am a danger to the country for not owning a weapon. At the mere mention of such a conversation, gun people come back with the same specious arguments and abusive replies to my comments.
I appreciate Thom Danahy's candor and refusal to be intimidated. I wish there were more like him.
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State Senator R.C. Soles (D - NC)
Long time Anti-Gun Advocate State Senator R.C. Soles, 74, shot one of two intruders at his home just outside Tabor City , N.C. about 5 p.m. Sunday, the prosecutor for the politician's home county said.
The intruder, Kyle Blackburn, was taken to a South Carolina hospital, but the injuries were not reported to be life-threatening, according to Rex Gore, district attorney for Columbus, Bladen andBrunswick counties..
The State Bureau of Investigation and Columbus County Sheriff's Department are investigating the shooting, Gore said. Soles, who was not arrested,declined to discuss the incident Sunday evening.
"I am not in a position to talk to you," Soles said by telephone. "I'm right in the middle of an investigation."
The Senator, who has made a career of being against gun ownership for the general public, didn't hesitate to defend himself with his own gun when he believed he was in immediate danger and he was the victim.
In typical hypocritical liberal fashion, the "Do as i say and not as i do" Anti-Gun Activist Lawmaker picked up his gun and took action in what apparently was a self-defense shooting. Why hypocritical you may ask? It is because his long legislative record shows that the actions that he took to protect his family, his own response to a dangerous life threatening situation, are actions that he feels ordinary citizens should not have if they were faced with an identical situation.
It has prompted some to ask if the Senator believes his life and personal safety is more valuable than yours or mine.
But, this is to be expected from those who believe they can run our lives, raise our kids, and protect our families better than we can.
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Mr or Mrs Wisdom, it was not set up under Bush. IF you do your research you will find the program under the Bush Administration tracked the guns and when they found unlike Obama's, when they found some slipping through, they shut it down. Didn't lie about it have our fellow countryman killed by it and also under Bush NO WHERE near the amount of death's in Mexico as Obama. Is He you god or what excuses, lies and none of it bothers the left none of it.
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Actually, Matthew Ribarich, that so-called Holder gun-running operation into Mexico was set up by the Bush Administration.
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About the ridiculous analogies that gun nuts keep making about banning cars?
Amazingly stupid.
During the past few decades, auto makers have been spending billions upon billions to make cars safer.
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Tom you forgot one good reason to have large capacity magazines, THE ZOMBIE APPOCOLYPSE!
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As long as that ground isn't targeted by drones...