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Raffling misfire (John Lott)
Washington Times ^ | June 12, 2003 | John Lott

Posted on 06/13/2003 7:11:59 PM PDT by Washingtonian

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:03:48 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

When should a modest local Catholic Church turn down $10,000 a year for sports activities that help keep children off the streets and out of gangs?Apparently, that will happen this coming Saturday, when the money is raised by the Catholic Sportsmen's Organization raffling off a shotgun.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption
KEYWORDS: catholicchurch; crime

1 posted on 06/13/2003 7:11:59 PM PDT by Washingtonian
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To: Washingtonian
To Peggy Alexander, a former member of the church who has now joined the Episcopal Church, "it's a moral issue. It's about putting more guns out on the street.

I defy this idiot woman to find one documented case of a skeet gun being used in a street crime.

2 posted on 06/13/2003 8:03:16 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Drug prohibition laws help support terrorism.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Makes you wonder what they're putting in the Communion wine.

Kool-Aid ?

3 posted on 06/14/2003 2:22:42 AM PDT by happygrl
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