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This Map Shows America’s Most Armed Counties. #1 Might Surprise You.
WideOpenSpaces ^ | September 10, 2014 | Matt Alpert

Posted on 01/18/2015 1:15:05 PM PST by Straight Vermonter

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To: Straight Vermonter

Biggest surprise - Hennepin County and Ramsey County in MN. That’s the Twin Cities.

Proving that there are conservatives in MN even in the TC’s.


61 posted on 01/18/2015 4:05:18 PM PST by Gumdrop
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To: ClearCase_guy

Did Romney have something to do with that?


62 posted on 01/18/2015 4:38:57 PM PST by make no mistake
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To: oldenuff2no
I think it is much worse than that but this is a good lesson in how to create a lie and then push it as fact. If you missed that let me clarify it.

You doubt the veracity of someone posting on facebook? It's on the internet, it's gotta be true!

63 posted on 01/18/2015 4:44:14 PM PST by Graybeard58 (Much violence and crime can be explained by the Bell Curve (Bing it))
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To: make no mistake

I believe that law goes back all the way to the 70s, so I can’t blame Romney for that.


64 posted on 01/18/2015 5:40:54 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Malort, turning taste-buds into taste-foes for generations.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

The county of Miami-Dade isn’t listed: they don’t use firecrackers to celebrate New Year’s Eve.


65 posted on 01/18/2015 5:48:12 PM PST by Does so (SCOTUS Newbies Imperil USA...)
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To: 7thson
I grew up in Staunton, VA and VA is not listed in the top 100.

The morons who put this trash together are clueless. Even in far north eastern cali almost every house has guns, many of them. I'm talking about Modoc county and I know this because I've spent a lot of time there and hunted and shot with many of the people there. This report is a crock. I bet there are many counties around our country like Modoc county. The people there may have a lot to say to someone asking about their guns but it would not be truthful answers to their questions. Their answers would be very hostile and deservedly so. The guns we have in our homes are none of anyone else's business. Sometimes freedoms and rights must be explained to the intentionally ignorant liberals in clear short words that they can understand.

66 posted on 01/18/2015 5:48:44 PM PST by oldenuff2no (Retired US ARMY Ranger.)
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To: Lorianne

“This just counts legal gun owners”

Since there is no source for the data we have no idea.


67 posted on 01/18/2015 5:50:03 PM PST by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

That’s true, but it surely does not count the criminal’s guns.


68 posted on 01/18/2015 5:52:30 PM PST by Lorianne (fed pork, bailouts, gone taxmoney)
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To: Straight Vermonter

Woohoo! My hometown is #10!


69 posted on 01/18/2015 6:03:19 PM PST by IYAS9YAS (Has anyone seen my tagline? It was here yesterday. I seem to have misplaced it.)
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To: Beagle8U
I doubt those numbers. There are areas in MI that everyone has guns, it is rare for someone not to have any.

Me too. The only places in KS and MO that have this higher percentage are the big cities. If it's done by percentage, seems everywhere I've lived in KS and MO are smaller towns and every household has a gun. I wonder if they mean more protection type guns. Seemed every household in my small Missouri town had a shotgun and rifle, not so much handguns.

70 posted on 01/18/2015 6:17:08 PM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: Straight Vermonter

Oh I understand now, these are registered guns. The shotguns and rifles I grew up with weren’t registered (and I’m not THAT old), they were passed down or bought from other people or auctions or whatever. I suppose you get on the list when they run a background check?


71 posted on 01/18/2015 6:20:31 PM PST by ozarkgirl
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To: Straight Vermonter; NFHale; fieldmarshaldj; BillyBoy

Does not surprise me, actually, at all.


72 posted on 01/18/2015 6:22:25 PM PST by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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To: x1stcav

howdy neighbor.

I had heard rumor of this ranking before. Believe Sheriff Ensminger once mentioned that this is a baaaad place to try to break and enter.


73 posted on 01/18/2015 6:22:42 PM PST by redlegplanner ( No Representation without Taxation)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I call BS on this list. My state has no gun registration (i.e. no way to know the numbers) and I know we’re all armed to the teeth, yet some county with a little over 51% gun ownership is on top???

Yeah, right. Guess all my neighbors had boating accidents.

Just a little example of how gun friendly my county is — our public technical college opened a public gun range and offers CCW classes along with, “how to choose the best CCW weapon for you” classes where they let you shoot a variety of weapons.


74 posted on 01/18/2015 6:29:00 PM PST by MediaMole
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To: redlegplanner

I think this map, which actually came out last summer, is based on the number of concealed permits per capita.

Still, lots of people ‘packin’ here.

I’ll quote it yet again.

Robert Heinlein:

An armed society is a polite society.


75 posted on 01/18/2015 6:36:11 PM PST by x1stcav (Why does Eleanor Clift always look like her private parts are causing her acute pain?)
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To: Lorianne

Yeah my county is not on there. Guess they’re not counting all the illegal guns the illegal aliens own.


76 posted on 01/18/2015 7:20:03 PM PST by sheana
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To: ClearCase_guy

They don’t call ‘em shotgun shacks for nuthin’.


77 posted on 01/18/2015 7:21:59 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: Straight Vermonter

I thought Alaska wasn’t divided into counties?


78 posted on 01/18/2015 7:28:45 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Throne and Altar! [In Jerusalem!!!])
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To: Zionist Conspirator
I thought Alaska wasn’t divided into counties?

Alaska is divided into judicial districts.

79 posted on 01/18/2015 7:32:15 PM PST by okie01 (THE MAINSTEAM MEDIA: Ignorance on Parade)
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To: x1stcav

If it was based on number of ‘concealed permits per capita’, every one of Vermont’s 14 counties would be at the top of the list. Everybody in the state with a driver’s license has, by definition, a concealed carry permit.


80 posted on 01/18/2015 8:44:43 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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