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The Agony of the Liberal Gun Lover
Pacific Standard ^ | 06/10/2014 | BRYAN SCHATZ

Posted on 06/10/2014 3:07:40 PM PDT by aimhigh

Sara Robinson of Seattle, Washington, is chatty, affable, and obviously liberal. For years the former writer for Alternet has been a member of a tight-knit community of activists who write and organize around progressive causes. Or at least she was a member, until her “tribe,” as she calls it, effectively banished her in the wake of the December 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting. “I was forced out,” she says.

Robinson, a registered Democrat since the Reagan era, is also a life-long gun owner. And almost as soon as news of the massacre broke, her relationship with her left-leaning circle began to fall apart over the issue of firearms.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: banglist; liberal
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To: aimhigh

Cry me a river, brown shirts. They witness how fascists behave first-hand and they still support them.


21 posted on 06/10/2014 4:22:48 PM PDT by Azeem (There are four boxes to be used in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury and ammo.)
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To: aimhigh

I have been told by gun-owning liberals that

“I’ll give up my guns only after they have disarmed all you rightwing gun nuts!”

Just like Diane Feinstein: “Guns for me but not for thee”.

Liberals with guns is rank hypocrisy, in my opinion.


22 posted on 06/10/2014 4:37:36 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("In the modern world, Muslims are living fossils.")
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To: JRandomFreeper

That’s discriminatory!


23 posted on 06/10/2014 4:38:17 PM PDT by gorush (History repeats itself because human nature is static)
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To: gorush
Yes. Yes it is.

/johnny

24 posted on 06/10/2014 4:55:26 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: aimhigh

The day will arrive soon enough when these idiot liberals will understand what the Friends of the 2nd were talking about.

Gun owners will have a chance; for the rest, it will be too late.


25 posted on 06/10/2014 5:04:13 PM PDT by IncPen (None of this would be happening if John Boehner were alive...)
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To: aimhigh

Robinson is the type of “gunowner” that supports “reasonable gun reform “ because she thinks the government won’t come after HER choice of weaponry, just those evil black guns.

In short, she’s an idiot.


26 posted on 06/10/2014 5:13:30 PM PDT by RedMonqey ("Gun-free zones" equal "Target-rich environment.")
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To: aimhigh

How come nobody theorizes that people are so economically challenged and frustrated by the results of 0bamas’ policies and consider their futures so bleak that they go nuts and go shoot people?

Is that more or less plausible than global warming?

Or do I have it wrong, and these shootings are actually the direct result of global warming, as well?


27 posted on 06/10/2014 6:01:38 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: aimhigh

a few years back (quite a few, now) I had a collection
of quotes from pro-RKBA pro-citizen self-defence self-
described liberals. they are on my other computer,really.

I do remember a few names:
terriermandot.com (a good rant in 2007
gun-totin liberal.
angry mouse. (DU?)

the ostracism doesn’t surprise me.


28 posted on 06/11/2014 3:39:12 PM PDT by cycjec
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To: aimhigh

how about the real agony: of the dying wounded victim in
a “free fire” zone; of their bereaved kin and friends?


29 posted on 06/11/2014 3:44:25 PM PDT by cycjec
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To: Ping

Bfl


30 posted on 06/24/2014 9:52:12 AM PDT by Professional Engineer (You all can go to hell, I'm going to Texas.)
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