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It’s an awkward conversation, but you have to talk to other parents about guns, experts say (barf alert)
CNN ^ | January 20, 2023 | Madeline Holcombe

Posted on 01/26/2023 6:13:32 PM PST by DoodleBob

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To: taxcontrol

You have walls and windows that can stop rifle and sniper rounds? Wish I did.


21 posted on 01/26/2023 6:52:06 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoodleBob

OpSec isn’t a liberal thing I guess...


22 posted on 01/26/2023 6:52:21 PM PST by EEGator
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To: DoodleBob

I don’t have to do jack. Especially coming from CNN. Talking about Jesus would be the priority conversation. Not anything the demons in the MSM says I “have” to do.


23 posted on 01/26/2023 7:02:31 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: Portnoy001

That wouldn’t be an issue if someone wants to be unarmed-they are weird, but given that this is a rural area, not many people and everyone knows everyone else, crime done by locals is at zero-most is done by meth heads from the city-but eyes are everywhere-and game cameras on every gate and fence-theft isn’t very profitable...


24 posted on 01/26/2023 7:06:26 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: DoodleBob

Growing up in the 1960s we had a badass cop in the neighborhood. When we kids were over there the Dad would come home take off his gun and badge and lay them on the kitchen table. He wouldn’t care if there were 10 kids around. He knew all of us were scared to touch it.


25 posted on 01/26/2023 7:07:33 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Texan5

I might not have been clear. Meant that saying you are unarmed to someone might get one of their friends/family to come over that is up to no good.


26 posted on 01/26/2023 7:11:48 PM PST by Portnoy001
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To: Uncle Miltie

I was gonna say the same thing!


27 posted on 01/26/2023 7:18:36 PM PST by RainMan (Democrats ... making war against America since April 12, 1861)
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To: central_va

I had s cop neighbor with a young daughter. One day I stuck my head in their door on gun-cleaning day. Every flat surface in the living room had handguns on it. I asked him how it worked when the boy down the street was playing with their daughter. He said the kid wasn’t allowed in the house.


28 posted on 01/26/2023 7:24:33 PM PST by gundog (It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. )
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To: DoodleBob

I talk to other parents about guns all the time since we all have tons of them.


29 posted on 01/26/2023 7:33:45 PM PST by joma89 (Buy weapons and ammo, folks, and have the will to use them.)
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To: Portnoy001

I suppose it is possible-but not likely. Still only a fool would be unarmed. Most people also carry bear spray if they go outside past their deck/patio at night-there are predators with 4 legs that can do harm, especially close to the river...


30 posted on 01/26/2023 7:42:54 PM PST by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: taxcontrol
"Understand that I can stop most attacks up to a SWAT team / Infantry squad."

It's probably cool. I doubt very many kids know how to operate a .50 cal.

31 posted on 01/26/2023 8:09:57 PM PST by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
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To: DoodleBob

The correct reply is “I’m sorry you don’t want your daughter visiting my house. She is welcome but it’s my house, my rules, not yours”.


32 posted on 01/26/2023 8:28:41 PM PST by GaryCrow
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To: DoodleBob

My response would be, “It looks like she is not going to come then.”


33 posted on 01/26/2023 8:31:38 PM PST by sport
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To: Secret Agent Man

A neighbor had 150 sqft of half inch steel plate I bought for $900 last year. Much of it is inside my house.


34 posted on 01/26/2023 8:41:14 PM PST by GreyHoundSailor
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To: the_Watchman

I said to my children: this is what can happen if you misuse a firearm.
I turned and used my 12 gauge to neatly shoot the top of a fence post off


35 posted on 01/26/2023 8:42:23 PM PST by South Dakota (Patriotism is the new terrorism )
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To: GreyHoundSailor

Damn. Envious. :)


36 posted on 01/26/2023 8:45:24 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: DoodleBob
It’s an awkward conversation, but you have to talk to other parents about guns, experts say

On the contrary: I find that it's a good way to "break the ice" when "bellying up to the bar" with new members down at our local gun club.

Regards,

37 posted on 01/26/2023 10:53:22 PM PST by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
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To: South Dakota

show and tell is always a fun thing!


39 posted on 01/27/2023 4:19:31 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: DoodleBob

I’ll ask them if their child has a habit of putting his grubby paws on other people’s stuff.


40 posted on 01/27/2023 4:32:15 AM PST by Trailerpark Badass (“There should be a whole lot more going on than throwing bleach,” said one woman)
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