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Dallas may drop the hammer on toy guns
Dallas Morning News (TX) ^
| 8/8/06
| DAVE LEVINTHAL
Posted on 08/08/2006 9:32:18 AM PDT by kiriath_jearim
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To: sarasota
I don't know why Texans have always had the right to defend their homes. The police won't even carry you to the station for a statement.
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posted on
08/08/2006 9:51:15 AM PDT
by
federal
To: kiriath_jearim
The only thing dumber than a liberal, is two liberals!!!
To: weegee
well.... Prison Break the series 2nd season is being filmed out here.
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posted on
08/08/2006 9:53:54 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(http://www.mises.org/story/1975 <--no such thing as a fairtax)
To: kiriath_jearim
How sad! No more cowboys and indians. (Now politically incorrect, of course!) No more cops and robbers! Our little boys will have courage, innovation and the manly art of protection sucked out them. I say give 'em more toy guns, given 'em bows and arrows! And maybe our little boys will grow up to be real men, just like their grandfathers.
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posted on
08/08/2006 9:54:38 AM PDT
by
Paperdoll
(........Washington Staters, Vote for McGavick!)
To: Xenalyte
"Dallas is filled with metrosexual pantywaists. It no more belongs in Texas than Austin does."
What we're seeing in America is European style socialism and it's attendant PC sensitivities and politics being slowly implemented a piece at a time.
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posted on
08/08/2006 9:57:47 AM PDT
by
dljordan
To: kiriath_jearim
Why don't they drop the hammer on REAL criminals?
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:02:06 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: visualops
To think when I was a kid we had bb gun and an archery set (pointy metal-tipped arrows) and cap guns etc. ... And kids running through yards and jumping fences with real looking guns shouting "I'm going to kill you." Somehow we all survived.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:04:27 AM PDT
by
ElkGroveDan
(California bashers will be called out)
To: sarasota
"Fox had a bit on states that allow homeowners the right to bear arms and protect their homes from "invaders". Texas was not on their list. ???"If it wasn't, it should have been. Texas is a "right to carry" state. The law here says that if I see some punk carrying off my TV set and he is about to get away and I have no reasonable chance of recovering it, I can shoot him in the back. How cool is that? So now we may have come to a situation where people can own and carry real guns but not fake guns. The well of liberal insanity just keeps getting deeper and deeper.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:04:37 AM PDT
by
Desron13
(If you constantly vote between the lesser of two evils then evil is your ultimate destination.)
To: kiriath_jearim
Several years ago I had a pantywaisted neighbor start complaining to me about my son and his toy guns. She started ranting that it wasn't safe for children to play with guns because "it will make him want to play with real guns, and we ALL KNOW how dangerous those are." You should have seen the color drain from her face when I mentioned that my son already has a .22 hanging over the doorway in his bedroom. She stormed off, but ended up ranting to my wife later that it was "insane" that we would allow our children to handle firearms. My wife, bless her soul, offered to take the neighbor shooting to dispel some of her misconceptions about firearms. The neighbor never did take her up on the offer.
To: kiriath_jearim
Not to be provocative, but Texas is turning into a nanny state. This is weird.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:08:56 AM PDT
by
Sam Cree
(Don't mix alcopops and ufo's)
To: mtbopfuyn
They'd do better to ban real guns from street gangs in Dallas. They'd do better to ban the street gangs.
It's not the guns that are the problem.
They've already banned criminals, but they aren't effective in combating crime.
Instead of going after criminals, they instead create laws that just interfere with law abiding citizens and continue doing a poor job of enforcing laws.
Maybe what they need to ban is worthless politicians.
To: kiriath_jearim
Oh goodie, we teach our kids guns are evil bad things,
and our enemy teaches their kids how to fire a AK-47.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:22:13 AM PDT
by
CAP811
(One man can change the world with a bullet in the right place)
To: GeronL
Guess even the actors playing cops won't have guns if they don't want to break the law.
I wouldn't want Hollywood to have rights than a mere citizen does not.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:24:59 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Sam Cree
Yep. And that is one thing that Kinky Friedman claims to be running against. The wussification of Texas.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:26:53 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: ElkGroveDan
Too much money in payoffs.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:28:10 AM PDT
by
weegee
(Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
To: Sam Cree
Dallas is a cesspool of liberal activism, on par with Berkley and San Francisco, if not ahead of them.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:32:05 AM PDT
by
FFIGHTER
(Character Matters!)
To: kiriath_jearim
Does not surprise me - Dallas has quite a few liberals running around (I think the Sheriff is even a Democrat).
To: CAP811
Texan Audie Murphy knew all about guns BEFORE he joined the Army. So did Alvin C. York. So the most decorated soldiers of WWI AND WWII just happened to learn shooting as mere children.
Add George Mabry II the Medal of Honor recepient who learned shooting as a boy in South Carolina and had an incredible career involving D-Day, the Bulge, and so much more.
The most famous sniper of Vietnam was Carlos Hathcock who grew up shooting in Arkansas.
My wife learned to disassemble an AK-47 in the sixth grade and during her USSR 8th grade class did the same but against the clock.
But these Dallas zip wads think that America would be better is Murphy, York, Mabry, Hathcock, and so many more had grown up without guns. Sheesh!
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:36:52 AM PDT
by
Monterrosa-24
(Pork barbeque, bacon, pork chops, sausage, ribs, ham, pork rinds are so good and so offensive to...)
To: Xenalyte
Dallas is filled with metrosexual pantywaists. It no more belongs in Texas than Austin does.
At least Austin isn't going after toy guns like this.
Unfortunately, Austin is following in the footsteps of North Texas' love affair with traffic cameras all over the place.
To: visualops
To think when I was a kid we had bb gun and an archery set (pointy metal-tipped arrows) and cap guns etc. Not to mention matches that would strike on just about anything... Yea, back when kids had parents.
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posted on
08/08/2006 10:37:14 AM PDT
by
Niteranger68
(I gigged your peace frog.)
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