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Why we keep trying to reject gun culture; Discouraged as we may be by our failure to stop gun violence, we need to keep trying. The alternative is far worse. (Mega barf alert)
Waging Non Violence ^ | March 25, 2024 | Robert C. Steiner

Posted on 03/25/2024 7:45:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob

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To: DoodleBob

“There may perhaps be a proper place for these weapons, in armies or in police forces, but certainly not among the general public”

Does not understand what the 2nd Amendment is about, like most liberals.


21 posted on 03/25/2024 9:00:12 PM PDT by doorgunner69 (When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty)
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To: Reverend Wright

And he’s a demonrat to boot 🥾.


22 posted on 03/25/2024 9:03:02 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: bravo whiskey

Exactly.


23 posted on 03/25/2024 9:05:52 PM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: bravo whiskey

24 posted on 03/25/2024 9:08:01 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (I pledge allegiance to the flag of the USofA & to the Constitutional REPUBLIC for which it stands.)
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To: DoodleBob

You Nazi maggots need to get a life and a job. If you want to stop the violence, do something about your illegal alien voters driving drunk and wiping out whole American families. It will be worth deporting every illegal alien currently on the government teat in this country if it will save JUST ONE American family.


25 posted on 03/25/2024 9:09:17 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("A Noble Heart Can Know No Ease Without Freedom.")
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
In the areas with high gun ownership you find little crime.

Why?

Because everyone knows that there is a good chance the person that just accidentally bumped into you is carrying. So rather then a extended period of chest thumping that devolves into violence the bumped says "Hey!" to the bumpee. Who, knowing that the person he bumped into is also probably carrying, says "Sorry!"

There is no, "What is this little guy doing" or "Big guys think they own the road". They know that when it comes to fire power they are pretty much equal.

There is nothing to be gained in status by taking it further. No one is going to think any less of the two because they let the incident drop. In fact by taking it further you have lost points on the social ladder.

And that is, in brief, why an armed society is a polite society.

26 posted on 03/25/2024 9:16:09 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear ( Roses are red, Violets are blue, I love being on the government watch list, along with all of you.)
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To: DoodleBob

We live in a world of good and evil. Guns are in possession by both. If you take the guns away from the good who are honest enough to turn them in if absolutely required, then that leaves the other half, those that do not even try to use them intelligently, still armed. And while you now take away the honest peoples’ ability to protect themselves, you are empowering the other half to use the guns you didn’t get from them. And evil makes no effort not to use them to harm.

So, you won’t be able to get all the guns, and you can’t protect those you disarmed, so what have you accomplished. Certainly not the target you are aiming at. And, in this case, if you are not part of the answer, you are part of the problem.

And while you’re at it, if you are not going to stop people carrying weapons into the Utah State government buildings, then your enemy is the same as ours...evil at some point. The people who handle your security for the building have been lucky so far. But it only takes one.

Lt. Breur said other weapons are also allowed inside the capitol. “We operate under the constructs of Utah State Law,” he said. “We are not going to restrict somebody who can legally possess that weapon.”

Yet a couple of paragraphs before that they say they don’t check if the visitor can legally possess or not and they do see them. Course they are all armed. So if they get a nut, they can just gun him down and then feel bad. But they’re armed.

wy69


27 posted on 03/25/2024 9:17:01 PM PDT by whitney69 (yption tunnels)
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

After Hurricane Ike hit the upper Texas coast, the rat media types asked the Governor of Texas about looting in Galveston county. The head of the DPS (state troopers) answered that question. He said that is no looting in that county. Galveston county has the highest per capita of CHL license holders of any other Texas County.

An armed society is a polite society.

There was a group of guys that put up a picture on the internet. It was a piece of plywood spray painted with the message, “you loot, we shoot”.


28 posted on 03/25/2024 9:21:07 PM PDT by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: DoodleBob

I presume that this person has given up any and all armed security he (or she) has.

And likely would advocate for all democrat gun grabbers to do the same.


29 posted on 03/25/2024 10:17:03 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: NorthMountain

“The right to life is the highest right, and the right to defend life is inherent in it. The Right to Keep and Bear Arms is an inherent, inescapable part of the highest of rights.”

Couldn’t agree more.

Stand a liberal gun grabber
against a grizzly. The
liberals only defense
being his walking stick.
Nice bear....


30 posted on 03/25/2024 11:04:41 PM PDT by Lean-Right (Eat More Moose)
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To: DoodleBob

These tards need to only look at 1 culture only. The filth that inner city culture spews is responsible for almost all of it. They’re far too cowardly to attack that though. Hate whitey and Christians is way easier.


31 posted on 03/25/2024 11:23:43 PM PDT by vpintheak (Sometimes you’re the windshield, sometimes you’re the bug. )
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To: Telepathic Intruder

Lets see here; I’m a Christian, a Nationalist (i.e. Patriot), Heterosexual, White, Male, gun owner.

DAMN, I MUST BE A TERRORIST!

Somebody stop me before I act like a LGBTQWERTY FOOL!


32 posted on 03/26/2024 12:05:27 AM PDT by 5th MEB (1)
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To: DoodleBob

I know that those experienced in the use of guns make very accurate combat soldiers.


33 posted on 03/26/2024 12:22:50 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: DoughtyOne

They don’t call them useful fools for nothing.


34 posted on 03/26/2024 12:24:29 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: DoughtyOne

I remember my dad going down into the basement and shooting his .22 rifle at scraps of paper with bullseyes drawn on them. He let me and my brother shoot it. My brother was nine-years-old and I was ten.


35 posted on 03/26/2024 12:27:56 AM PDT by jonrick46 (Leftniks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: DoodleBob

“I don’t recall ever seeing so many errors and/or lies per sentence.”

Perhaps even a new world record. I believe if this guy told me the sun was rising in the Eastern sky that I’d have to run outside to check.


36 posted on 03/26/2024 1:35:41 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: TigersEye

“The shocking thing is that the people of Utah elected this jackwagon and fed his unsupportable sense of self importance.”

Might I take a moment of your time to direct your attention to the esteemed UT Senator and RINO pontificator extraordinaire, Mitt Romney, to illustrate the fallibility of that state’s electorate?


37 posted on 03/26/2024 1:43:11 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't. )
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To: DoodleBob

Bkmk


38 posted on 03/26/2024 2:57:21 AM PDT by sauropod (Ne supra crepidam.)
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To: DoodleBob

Yep. This guy is infected with the woke mind virus. He recites every old anti gun cliche while adding the latest CRT white supremacy overlay. The real reason he is discouraged is that making guns illegal is out of reach. Let’s keep it that way.


39 posted on 03/26/2024 4:04:54 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: DoodleBob
Robert C. Steiner

Needs extraction surgery:

HUA

And then an attitude adjustment:

Chuck Norris

40 posted on 03/26/2024 4:58:05 AM PDT by Col Freeper (Praise and Trust in the LORD in All Things at All Times.)
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