Posted on 01/25/2010 3:49:33 AM PST by marktwain
Walking the talk of valuing diversity can lead to some unusual places.
Brian, a regular at monthly meetings of a diversity coalition in Overland Park, talked me out of going to church one Sunday in June and into riding with him to a gun show at the KCI Expo Center in the Northland. I grew up with guns, and this place was very familiar to me.
Dad still has the six-shooters his father carried every day to work as a railroad brakeman, beginning in the late 1800s. I shot guns when I was a Boy Scout. As an adult, I have fired friends’ handguns, shotguns and rifles, including flintlock weapons, requiring that we load steel balls and powder.
But I never warmed up to weaponry, though guns can be fun for target practice, hunting and showing off to friends.
They make some people feel secure, thinking guns offer “protection.” But my experience also has been that guns get used to intimidate, threaten, injure and kill people.
I saw that growing up in inner-city St. Louis. I’ve seen it in neighborhoods where I’ve lived in Kansas City and witnessed a lifetime of deaths from firearms as a journalist.
I vividly remember covering a story more than 30 years ago and seeing one gunshot victim bundled in a blanket on a more than 90-degree summer day saying how cold he was as he was wheeled from his home into an ambulance and whisked to a hospital where he died. Heat and life bled out of him — all caused by a gun.
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.kansascity.com ...
“he’s lying through his rotten teeth.”
Liberals lie.
All the time.
About everything.
Skunks stink, badgers bite, liberals lie.
It's what they do.
I took it as a statement of determination for his self defense, not necessarily a brag.
If you feel owning a firearm makes you more likely to brag on internet forums, best not own one.
Which ones first? My thoughts are two the chest and then one to the forehead. Just a preference I guess.
The pussy that wrote this article is one who will depend on others who are braver to defend his candy ass!
I’d lay a paycheck he’s for gun control!
:-)
LLS
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