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Lead in Sunday's Boston Globe: "Crime may be dropping in US, but gun possession is rising"

Posted on 11/01/2004 6:19:02 AM PST by Uncledave

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To: Uncledave
Sounds like a great excuse for me to buy yet another firearm!

Hmmmmmmmm...choices, choices, choices...

21 posted on 11/01/2004 6:24:59 AM PST by AngryJawa ("...gettin' real, swappin stories, gettin' some geese..." ROTFLMAO!!!)
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To: Uncledave

Now I hope all those new gun owners learn to safely handle and shoot. Lest I be thought inconsistent, I don't shoot, but have had gun safely training. My 5 kids have all been well trained, and have competitive shooting experience (despite the fact that we live in a city!)


22 posted on 11/01/2004 6:25:05 AM PST by HomeschoolGenealogistMom
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To: theDentist
They just don't see the connection at all. What a bunch of tools.

They won't acknowledge the connection. Willful fools, yes, but not ignorant or passive. They are fools because being so supports their goals.

23 posted on 11/01/2004 6:25:41 AM PST by the invisib1e hand (do not remove this tag under penalty of law.)
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To: atomicpossum
Gun ownership up -- crime down. Crooks seeking another line of work.

Only the MSM would see a problem with this. It becomes increasingly obvious the MSM wants guns out of citizens hands. Any reason to accomplish that goal is OK with them. Now that CCWs are widespread the crime canard doesn't work anymore. So the MSM is seeking a new reason to ban guns.
24 posted on 11/01/2004 6:26:02 AM PST by snooker (Bush 2004 --- stay with the strong horse)
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To: Uncledave

To the Globe owning a gun is a crime.


25 posted on 11/01/2004 6:27:21 AM PST by xp38
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To: Uncledave

We know our 2nd Amendment right is what backs up our First Amendment right. The left wants to take our speech and our guns.


26 posted on 11/01/2004 6:27:29 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: Uncledave

I read the headline and think "So, where's the bad news?"


27 posted on 11/01/2004 6:28:06 AM PST by Constantine XIII
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To: Uncledave

Clearly a correlation. Nice the MSM has finally admitted it!


28 posted on 11/01/2004 6:28:08 AM PST by Laserman
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To: jneesy

"Ice is forming on the pond, but the temperature is dropping"


29 posted on 11/01/2004 6:28:32 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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To: o_zarkman44
Why do penumbras not emanate from the Second Amendment as promiscuously as they do from the First?
30 posted on 11/01/2004 6:30:50 AM PST by The Great Yazoo (JFK: He's a real nowhere man, Sitting in his nowhereland, Making all his nowhere plans, For nobody)
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To: atomicpossum

Notice it's also "possession" and not "ownership."


31 posted on 11/01/2004 6:34:22 AM PST by Renderofveils (8th Engineer Bn, 1 Cav. "Cannibals!")
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To: Uncledave
"Crime may be dropping in US, but gun possession is rising"

But that can't be true. We all know guns cause crime.

My 12 gauge jumped out of the closet just yesterday and wanted to knock over the corner store, but I wouldn't give it the keys to the ammo box

< / sarcasm >

32 posted on 11/01/2004 6:34:54 AM PST by Popman (Democrat Party Political Values are Condescension, Hypocrisy, Bigotry)
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To: Uncledave

The Globe is on to something. My husband and I intend to take shooting lessons and buy a gun in the next year.


33 posted on 11/01/2004 6:38:24 AM PST by itslex71 (southern by birth, republican by the grace of my dad)
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To: Uncledave

Amazing.. the've just proved effect and cause...


34 posted on 11/01/2004 6:39:30 AM PST by RS (Just because they are out to get him doesn't mean he's not guilty)
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To: ClearCase_guy

The tree is falling down, but the logger cut it with his chainsaw.

It's getting dark, but the sun is setting in the west.

I'm shouting with pain, but I hit my thumb with the hammer.

My house is burning down, but I set it on fire.

I am hungry, but I haven't eaten for 3 days.


35 posted on 11/01/2004 6:41:12 AM PST by blessu
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To: Uncledave
"Crime may be dropping in US, but gun possession is rising"

'Tis a Puzzlement, to be sure.

36 posted on 11/01/2004 6:45:02 AM PST by Semi Civil Servant (November 2, 2004: I'm suspicious of the timing of this election.)
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To: Uncledave

HAHAHAHA! DUmmies.


37 posted on 11/01/2004 6:47:10 AM PST by shhrubbery!
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To: glock rocks

Ping...


38 posted on 11/01/2004 6:47:17 AM PST by tubebender (If I had know I would live this long I would have taken better care of myself...)
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To: The Great Yazoo

The First Amendment only applies to the left to say what they believe in their translation of the Constitution.
The 2nd Amendment only applies to the military that protects the left's rights.

The conservative Right has no protections under the Constitution according to the left. They tell us to quit complaining. We can't have it both ways.


39 posted on 11/01/2004 6:47:54 AM PST by o_zarkman44
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To: Fenris6
Do I need an education to work for the Globe?

Why? You wanna be the first?



(actually you'd be the 2nd as they have Jeff Jacoby on staff)

40 posted on 11/01/2004 6:49:52 AM PST by Condor51 (May God have mercy upon my enemies, because I won't. - Gen G Patton)
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