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New record: America arms itself, 'necessary steps to defend selves'
Washington Examiner ^
| 6/5/2017
| Paul Bedard
Posted on 06/05/2017 10:59:00 AM PDT by RightGeek
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To: RightGeek
It's not only the threat extremist violence that drives gun sales. That's an almost vanishingly remote threat for an individual in the United States anyway. It's something deeper. It's a subliminal, unacknowledged acceptance of the fact that we are not a country anymore, nor are we one people among others in a common Western Tradition. Instead, we are a collection insular tribes, held together by an economy sustained by smoke and mirrors, at best pacified by a cornucopia of consumer goods. Any random thing small or large may one day soon cause us to fall apart. That's what makes us uneasy; that's what makes us want a gun and a good supply of ammunition. These times remind me of a few lines line from the
Glass Menagerie. "Adventure and change were imminent in this year. They were waiting around the corner for all these kids. Suspended in the mist over Berchtesgaden, caught in the folds of Chamberlain's umbrella. In Spain there was Guernica! But here there was only hot swing music and liquor, dance halls, ban, and movies, and sex that hung in the gloom like a chandelier and flooded the world with brief, deceptive rainbows. ... All the world was waiting for bombardments !"
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posted on
06/05/2017 12:16:36 PM PDT
by
PUGACHEV
To: Psalm 73
NJ isn't a "Shall Issue" state? Damn. No, I would describe it as more of a "We'll let you have certain guns, if we feel like it, but you pretty much have to keep them in your house."
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posted on
06/05/2017 12:25:15 PM PDT
by
Sicon
("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
To: Psalm 73
“NJ isn’t a “Shall Issue” state? Damn.”
NJ is a DON’T issue state! LOL
To: Grampa Dave
How about
AIM
FIRE
RELOAD
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posted on
06/05/2017 1:51:44 PM PDT
by
njslim
To: wku man
To a bull rider, 8 seconds is an eternity.
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posted on
06/05/2017 1:51:58 PM PDT
by
IAGeezer912
(One out of every 20 people on the face of the earth are Americans. We have won life's lottery.)
To: RightGeek
Yes, something better than a dead jihadist. That is MANY DEAD JIHADISTS!
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posted on
06/05/2017 2:18:30 PM PDT
by
Deplorable American1776
(Proud to be a DeplorableAmerican with a Deplorable Family...even the dog is DEPLORABLE :-))
To: RightGeek
I suspect RESIST/Antifa dangers are doing as much to drive weapons and ammo sales as the threat of foreign terrorists.
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posted on
06/05/2017 2:21:53 PM PDT
by
Pollster1
("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
To: njslim
Sound good unless your first bullet did its job.
Then, you might not have to reload at that moment.
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posted on
06/05/2017 2:23:01 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(120+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Covfefe President Trump for this great reality, each day!)
To: Big Red Badger
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posted on
06/05/2017 2:29:46 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(120+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Covfefe President Trump for this great reality, each day!)
To: IAGeezer912
You may very well be right, but I don't care to find out. Something about being that close to a one ton, PO'd critter with two really sharp spears on either side of his head just never appealed to me that much. But I'll take your word for it!
Of course, if I'm ever in a situation where police response time is 8 minutes, I hope my instinct won't be to run, hide, cower, and hope the bad guys don't find me.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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posted on
06/05/2017 3:31:06 PM PDT
by
wku man
(Just One Gun, the latest from 10 Pound Test - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6uFqQenIU4)
To: Grampa Dave
I’m going to label the RUN/HIDE one “IN THE UK - NO 2nd AMENDMENT”, the other “IN THE USA - WITH THE 2nd AMENDMENT” and stack ‘em one on top of the other for some future post. It defines the difference in mindset between the Mother Country and the “Bluddy Colonials”.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:20:51 PM PDT
by
Oatka
To: Oatka
Ping me if you post that
!
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:31:43 PM PDT
by
Grampa Dave
(120+ days without Hilliarly/Huma as POTUS! Covfefe President Trump for this great reality, each day!)
To: Grampa Dave
How's this look?
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:38:21 PM PDT
by
Oatka
To: Oatka
Oops. I took out that solid black vertical line. Let's try again.
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posted on
06/05/2017 6:42:25 PM PDT
by
Oatka
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