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I Own Guns. But I Hate the NRA.
Minnesota Star Tribune ^
| JULY 4, 2015
| David Fellerath
Posted on 07/04/2015 10:49:38 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:14:57 AM PDT
by
onona
(Obama's entire term reads like a John Semmens post.)
To: nickcarraway
I don't own a gun, I gave up the gun I used to earn my living more than 30 years ago. I was dry firing and "empty" gun 45° from my infant son being changed on a table—BAM!—the emtpy gun went off. I got rid of it. (Twenty percent of officer shootings are self-inflicted & 15% are partner inflicted.)
I hate guns, I was following Gabriel Giffords before she was shot because I was trying to understand libertarians who are pro-choice. I was aghast when she was shot, false accusations against Sarah Palin notwithstanding.
I don't want to get a gun, but I'm feeling compelled to get one. Before I do, I will be in the weird position of joining the NRA without owning a gun.
I don't ever want to shoot an assailant, I'd rather take the consequences, but I have responsibilities, I have to protect the lives of innocent people.
The NRA was started to protect the lives of freed African-American slaves during Reconstruction. As late as the 1960s, segregationist Democrats were opposing equity and justice for African-Americans. It was the now-faithless Republicans who supported African-Americans.
To: nickcarraway
I call BS on the premise of this article. The NRA has never called me after I’ve bought a firearm.
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:21:32 AM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("a shadow...draped nobly in the folds of a gorgeous eloquence.")
To: nickcarraway
I smell a Bloomberg troll. I don’t believe his BS story.
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posted on
07/05/2015 12:59:22 AM PDT
by
Hugin
("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
To: nickcarraway
I own 3 guns but I hate liberals
To: IAMNO1
looks at everything through the lens of the 2nd amendment and nothing else I think you're right and I think it is this myopia that causes the NRA to oppose Article V.
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posted on
07/05/2015 1:00:51 AM PDT
by
nathanbedford
("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
To: nickcarraway
I don’t hate the NRA. I do wish they would stop the annoying sales calls from their “partners”.
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posted on
07/05/2015 1:08:41 AM PDT
by
Jim Noble
(If you can't discriminate, you are not free)
To: IAMNO1
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posted on
07/05/2015 1:12:18 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(John 12:5-6)
>> I recoiled ...
>> I was amused ...
dick
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posted on
07/05/2015 1:40:23 AM PDT
by
Gene Eric
(Don't be a statist!)
To: doorgunner69
Minnesota is NOT the NE. It is the “Upper Mid-West”. You know “fly-over country”? That very same region that elects such conservative stalwarts as Al Franken and Paul Wellstone.
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posted on
07/05/2015 2:00:22 AM PDT
by
j.argese
(/s tags: If you have a mind unnecessary. If you're a cretin it really doesn't matter, does it?)
To: nickcarraway
“David Fellerath is the former culture and sports editor of INDY Week, a nationally recognized alternative newspaper based in Durham, Raleigh and Chapel Hill....”
Failed Libtard scribbler, in other words.
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posted on
07/05/2015 2:46:01 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
To: nickcarraway
Typical Liberal? Guns for me, no guns for thee
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posted on
07/05/2015 2:47:05 AM PDT
by
4rcane
To: nickcarraway
Typical Liberal? Guns for me, no guns for thee
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posted on
07/05/2015 2:47:06 AM PDT
by
4rcane
To: nickcarraway
Dianne Feinstein writes this crap in her spare time.
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posted on
07/05/2015 3:19:51 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not A Matter of Opinion)
To: nickcarraway
"That sounds formidable, until one considers that there are approximately 50 million adults who own firearms."I can't see how the number could possibly be that low.
Even if pollsters receive accurate responses to questions about guns, there are 115,610,216 households in the US. An estimate of 50 million would assume that one, and only one household member would own a gun. How often does that happen?
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posted on
07/05/2015 3:57:09 AM PDT
by
Sooth2222
("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
To: nickcarraway
David Fellerath is a freelance writer, hunter and community organizer. He wrote this article for the Washington Post. You can be suspicious that he neither owns a gun in real life nor has ever hunted.
You can be sure that he is a liberal and thus a fanatical proponent of your slavery.
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:08:49 AM PDT
by
stevem
To: nickcarraway
If anything, the NRA is very soft. It seems like they like anti-gun laws that they can fundraise on. That statement right there sums up my feelings on the NRA and why as a gun owner I don't belong to it.
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:12:44 AM PDT
by
usconservative
(When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
To: Texas Eagle
I'm guessing you didn't fall for that crap from Barry about lowering the sea levels and reducing the deficit and creating 20 million new jobs and all that poppycock and balderdash. I wonder if he kept his doctor. And if his health premiums went down $2500.
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:37:42 AM PDT
by
TangoLimaSierra
(To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
To: nickcarraway
The author sounded like a Minnesota Lib.
He owns gun(s), but “others” shouldn’t. Because nobody else is as reasonable as his very self.
That about sums it up.
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:49:01 AM PDT
by
Sir Napsalot
(Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
To: nickcarraway
Once upon a time, the NRA would fight every single piece of legislation that was anti-gun. Now they compromise and give in to the liberals; and our rights are incrementally eroded away.
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posted on
07/05/2015 4:55:38 AM PDT
by
BuffaloJack
(Political Correctness is Supression of Free Speech. Thank the Commies for Political Correctness.)
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