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America's gun culture - fading slowly? (Semi-automatic barf alert)
Reuters AlertNet ^ | January 9, 2008 | Bernd Debusmann

Posted on 01/13/2008 8:13:54 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: 2ndDivisionVet

The author of this article would be disappointed in me: I just ordered an Ed Brown 1911.


21 posted on 01/13/2008 8:37:48 PM PST by 04-Bravo
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To: Anti-Bubba182

I’ll bump.

From NORC press release: “The telephone survey of 1,200 U.S. adults”


22 posted on 01/13/2008 8:37:54 PM PST by endthematrix (He was shouting 'Allah!' but I didn't hear that. It just sounded like a lot of crap to me.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This guy is a German. What would he know about the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution? This is bovine scatology. Reuters should be ashamed of itself for posting this garbage.


23 posted on 01/13/2008 8:40:08 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (STILL Proud To Be An American!!!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Gun rampages happen with such numbing regularity -- on average one every three weeks in 2007 -- that they barely make news unless the death toll climbs into double digits, as happened at the Virginia Tech university. There, a student with mental problems killed 32 of his peers and himself.

Because the coward chose to attack a gunfree/freefire zone. I wonder what would happen if he tried at a gunshow.

24 posted on 01/13/2008 8:40:48 PM PST by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

A big surprise form someone named “Berndt”.

Here is one of his other articles:
“The $3,850 per second war and its victims:Bernd Debusmann”

Liberals are never so concerned with the cost of any tax expenditure except when it involves the military.


25 posted on 01/13/2008 8:41:36 PM PST by rlmorel (Liberals: If the Truth would help them, they would use it.)
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To: c-b 1

Our group runs about 30-50 concealed carry students through a month (not to count our NRA courses). Most all our students are under 35. We just finished a class of 22 yesterday, 4 were women.


26 posted on 01/13/2008 8:42:42 PM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I highly recommend this photo book... it ROCKS...

All bleeding heart liberals can go eat cake.

27 posted on 01/13/2008 8:42:57 PM PST by Trajan88 (www.bullittclub.com)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...those keeping the culture alive and those most vocal in resisting tighter regulations are white, middle-aged men ...

Those of us familiar with the left these past 3-4 decades know that this is a revealing statement in the article. The “gun culture” is a euphemism for white males, the cultural enemy of the left. It is a stereotype of the left that makes guns an especially important target of the left. To ban guns from private citizens is a symbolic defeat of the white male culture and the old America.

The article is full of lies, but that is what ownership of the press is about in the 21st century. He who owns the press spreads the lies. Gun ownership is up and recent information is consistent in evidencing favorable attitudes toward the individual right to self defense. The number of guns has increased, not decreased, and guns in the hands of citizens continue to protect the lives of individuals.

But then, the natural right to self defense isn’t open to public opinion. Either the right is unhindered or it is infringed and all infringements, as reminded us in our Constitution, are “shall nots” no matter who, when or where is the guilty offender. He who infringes this right violates a human right just as surely as does a slave owner or a murderer.


28 posted on 01/13/2008 8:45:03 PM PST by iacovatx (Self-defense, to the best of one's ability, is a fundamental requirement of life.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

He works for Reuters.


29 posted on 01/13/2008 8:45:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Your "dirt" on Fred is about as persuasive as a Nancy Pelosi Veteran's Day Speech)
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To: 04-Bravo
My neighbor is a reserve cop who has offered to let me fire his .50 cal next time he goes to the range.

I'm just DYING to have him call me some Saturday. Drooling, in fact.
30 posted on 01/13/2008 8:49:15 PM PST by OCCASparky (Steely-Eyed Killer of the Deep)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
This guy is a German. What would he know about the Second Amendment and the U.S. Constitution?

In Germany, all the guns were taken away by fascists. They all want the same for us.

This clown should also go learn why Switzerland remained free during the war from these same fascists.

31 posted on 01/13/2008 8:51:04 PM PST by varyouga ("Rove is some mysterious God of politics & mind control" - DU 10-24-06)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

This weekend I took my 11 year old nephew out to the range. He shot three rounds from the H&K USP but emptied a whole clip from the PS90. When he finished with the P90 he had an ear to ear grin!!! He said “I have to have one of these!!!”


32 posted on 01/13/2008 8:59:47 PM PST by Syntyr ( Freepers - In the top %5 of informed Americans!)
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Reuters has repeatedly been accused of showing an anti-Israel and anti-American bias.

It was founded by the German Paul Julius Reuter. Reuter was born Israel Beer Josaphat; his father was a rabbi. He converted to Christianity and changed his name).

He fled Germany after the failed Revolution of 1848. Among the demands of the demonstrators was arming of the people. Turned his back on both his heritage as a Jew and the people with whom he protested. Nice guy. 160 years later the organization remains unchanged.


33 posted on 01/13/2008 9:06:26 PM PST by QBFimi (When gunpowder speaks, beasts listen.)
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To: Syntyr

So, how do you like it? I’ve always been jealous of the Stargate SG-1 team because their P90’s look so cool... Maybe in 2008 I’ll get one...


34 posted on 01/13/2008 9:14:06 PM PST by The Electrician ("Government is the only enterprise in the world which expands in size when its failures increase.")
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To: The Electrician
No agenda here, nothing to see move on, sarc.
35 posted on 01/13/2008 9:16:58 PM PST by JimC214
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To: Balding_Eagle

In fact the gun grappers will say the following: if you want to own a gun you are mentally unstable. And by law mentally unstable people cannot own a gun.


36 posted on 01/13/2008 9:18:10 PM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Bernd Debusmann must have had his semi-annual wet dream and decided to write his take of it.
I’m fixing to buy an AR clone and am conflicted as to Mfg. and caliber. I’ve about made up my mind on Rock River Arms as the MFG. Every time I think about a .223 a little voice in the back of my head says “nah man, 308” See what I mean.


37 posted on 01/13/2008 9:18:46 PM PST by Atchafalaya
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Another Eurotrash Reuters POS trying to mainline outright propaganda to advance their agenda. It's no wonder we always have to save their asses during wars. This next time (and it is coming), we just wait until the Muzzies overrun them like ants, and not be so selective when we come in to play Orkin Man.


38 posted on 01/13/2008 9:19:44 PM PST by Viking2002 (Waterboarding the Left every chance I get.)
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To: Real Cynic No More

Nice! I just went to a gun show in Fort Lauderdale, FL Saturday. The place was packed! I found my new S&W 340SS which I had been looking for. I can’t wait to pick it up next Saturday at the Miami gun show. Gun shows are fun! Where else can I find buffalo beef jerky and slim jims?


39 posted on 01/13/2008 9:20:28 PM PST by FreeManWhoCan (An American in Miami)
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To: The Electrician

I love it. It one of those guns I really don’t have any use for other than just going punching holes in paper targets. But its fun! I just wish I could afford the Class 3 tax stamp to get a full auto version. That would be a hoot!


40 posted on 01/13/2008 9:21:36 PM PST by Syntyr ( Freepers - In the top %5 of informed Americans!)
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