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Would You Buy Your 10-Year-Old Daughter a Gun for Christmas? Paul Ryan Did
Huffington ^ | 4/10/2012 | Kate Gunn

Posted on 12/25/2014 2:47:55 PM PST by WilliamIII

Last week a small and seemingly innocuous piece in The Times caught my eye. The short panel referred to the fact that Paul Ryan, Mitt Romney's right hand man and the Republican Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, had just spent $100 on camouflage hunting clothes for his daughter, Liza, 10, to go with the rifle he bought her last Christmas.

Aghast with what I had just read I blogged about it, commenting that buying a 10 year old a rifle for Christmas was insane, and anywhere in the world that it wasn't considered to be must be a crazy place.

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: banglist; huffpo; massachusetts; mittromney; paulryan; wisconsin
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To: WilliamIII



61 posted on 12/25/2014 4:09:14 PM PST by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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To: WilliamIII

And when all might be starving around her, at least this child will never grow hungry. Not much Conservative around him or in him, he is, to some degree showing here that occasionally he is showing some sense. If well versed on the handling of guns, and trained to fire properly, she might be our next Big Game Hunter. All because her father thought enough of her to allow her to grow. This should be the business of no one else. All the faint hearted, time to reorder your smelling salts.


62 posted on 12/25/2014 4:09:19 PM PST by V K Lee
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To: VerySadAmerican

I’m eagerly waiting to watch the “Consuming of the poop” stage when they are all starving in the dark after their collapse hits. They can’t farm, build anything as simple as a cooking fire or hunt. So it should be entertaining to see.

Then when they run to the feral enclaves after they are barred from ours, we can enjoy the final Festivus celebration...”The bleeding on the ground” ritual.

And we can take pride in our tolerance for accepting the customs of other faiths.


63 posted on 12/25/2014 4:10:52 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: hondact200

“I nailed a duck when water skiing. Boy I had a lot of explaining to do with the DNR.”

Fellow freepers, I think we have a mental image here worthy of great praise.

Of course what sense the term ‘nailed’ is being used here. One way is funny. The other is hysterical and could get one GOP support in a southern state.


64 posted on 12/25/2014 4:13:31 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: WilliamIII

65 posted on 12/25/2014 4:13:59 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Norm Lenhart
the “Consuming of the poop” stage when they are all starving in the dark after their collapse...they can't build anything as simple as a cooking fire...

So, you're saying they'd have to burn down a building in order to cook their "dirt" sammiches.

66 posted on 12/25/2014 4:16:12 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: WilliamIII

I HAVE bought four ten year old daughters rifles for Christmas, and it will be five as soon as my youngest is old enough.

What’s the big deal?


67 posted on 12/25/2014 4:16:29 PM PST by Jim Noble (When strong, avoid them. Attack their weaknesses. Emerge to their surprise.)
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To: chicagolady
Paul Ryan is STILL an ass though. Illegal lovin traitor to the American Worker!

Been a Freeper for a long time and that is possibly the most asinine, baseless post I've ever read.....PATHETIC

68 posted on 12/25/2014 4:16:46 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: WilliamIII
I bought a Mossberg Plinkster .22 bolt rifle for all the grandkids to share this Christmas. I'll train them all with it as they mature enough. Dang thing is almost too small for me to shoot. I did shoot it off a bench. Blaming misses on the gun will not be allowed, it is a tack driver!
69 posted on 12/25/2014 4:18:00 PM PST by CrazyIvan (I lost my phased plasma rifle in a tragic hovercraft accident.)
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To: yarddog

Got my son a scoped 10-22 for Christmas one year.

He never shoots it - prefers the Mosin-Nagant and M1.


70 posted on 12/25/2014 4:18:05 PM PST by NY.SS-Bar9 (Those that vote for a living outnumber those that work for one.)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

See, there’s a problem. TODAY, with access to the tools of making fire, yes, they would be so stupid. But post collapse, when matches or lighters are all but gone, they wouldn’t know how to burn a building down since they are clueless as to what makes fire.

Cur Vangeles theme music


71 posted on 12/25/2014 4:19:37 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Fungi

:’)


72 posted on 12/25/2014 4:20:06 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/ _____________________ Celebrate the Polls, Ignore the Trolls)
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To: WilliamIII

Don’t have a daughter, but if I did, there’d be no question.
Especially with the likes of WJClinton on earth.


73 posted on 12/25/2014 4:20:32 PM PST by sasquatch
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To: WilliamIII

Good. Let some thug try and molest her in 5 to 7 years. He’ll either assume room temperature or lose his testicles.

And she’ll be safe.


74 posted on 12/25/2014 4:21:00 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: DoughtyOne
dears... LOL......well, ....deers too!!
75 posted on 12/25/2014 4:22:53 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: KoRn

Right, but 2012.


76 posted on 12/25/2014 4:26:13 PM PST by ansel12
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To: WilliamIII

Personal opinion, commenting on the practical rather than the political: I don’t recommend buying a ten year old a rifle for his or her first firearm. I think that a shotgun is more practical at that age. The lethal range is shorter and it is easier to hit the target with a pattern of birdshot than with a bullet. I owned a .410 shotgun by the time that I was ten, although I think that a 20 gauge would be a better starting point. (My personal favorite was a 20 gauge pump action Ithaca Featherlight.) Dove or squirrel hunting is a good way to start. Deer hunting is another good way to start (using slugs instead of birdshot). The world would be a better place if we had more fathers teaching their children to hunt.


77 posted on 12/25/2014 4:27:11 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands (Conservative 2016!! The Dole, H.W. Bush, McCain, Romney experiment has failed.)
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To: NY.SS-Bar9

I got my first rifle, a Remington model 514 at age nine. Since then I have gone through more than I could ever remember. I still enjoy shooting all types of firearms.

I have also had a large number of air guns. In maybe the last ten years it has mostly been airguns. Just so easy to take out and shoot a few times without much fuss. Also quieter than powder burners.


78 posted on 12/25/2014 4:30:19 PM PST by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)
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To: LucyT

Exactly...what’s the problem here. At one time,many young kids had shotguns & rifles & hunted with them after school. No big deal. The only real problems I see with firearms is when criminal acts are committed with them & the guilty are not promptly & properly prosecuted.


79 posted on 12/25/2014 4:35:13 PM PST by oldtech
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To: dvan
Not often known is Switzerland where all are obligated to serve in the Military and are provided with a military rifle upon completion. Israel is similar- for more obvious reason. If it were inhabited by Liberals- it would have ceased to exist.

Summer of 1990 I was in Europe with my family and part of the trip involved driving from Bavaria through the Swiss Alps to get to St. Moritz (to board the Glacier Express to Zermatt. I recommend that trip). Anyways, on the way to St. Moritz, we stopped at a small Swiss town nestled in the Alps for dinner at a small restaurant. As we were waiting for the meal to be served, 3 young men in Swiss Army uniform came in, stacked their rifles together leaning them up against the edge of a booth, sat down and ordered dinner.

It was oddly alien to see such a thing... and comforting at the same time. It was basically like "Why is this not normal in the United States?"

80 posted on 12/25/2014 4:36:24 PM PST by Rodamala
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