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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #50 on: January 28, 2013, 12:54:08 AM »
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #51 on: January 29, 2013, 09:13:05 AM »
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http://www.politico.com/story/2013/01/nra-ally-debbie-halvorson-could-win-jesse-jackson-jrs-chicago-seat-86772.html

Not really explained in the article, but this is a South Side Chicago seat.


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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #52 on: January 29, 2013, 09:32:07 AM »
That's hilariously....sad.
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #53 on: January 29, 2013, 11:54:26 PM »
This is making the rounds on YouTube - from the Hartford CT gun violence prevention public hearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NyYYgLzF6zU
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #54 on: January 30, 2013, 12:03:07 AM »
Not really explained in the article, but this is a South Side Chicago seat.


Look at all this gerrymander in full glory.


I don't get it. What's that map have to do with gerrymandering?  ???
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #55 on: January 30, 2013, 12:07:24 AM »
This is making the rounds on YouTube - from the Hartford CT gun violence prevention public hearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NyYYgLzF6zU


Wow. Masterful job.
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #56 on: January 30, 2013, 08:15:00 PM »
This is making the rounds on YouTube - from the Hartford CT gun violence prevention public hearing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=NyYYgLzF6zU

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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #57 on: February 02, 2013, 07:40:28 PM »
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #58 on: February 04, 2013, 05:23:19 PM »
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #59 on: February 05, 2013, 07:56:04 PM »
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #60 on: February 12, 2013, 03:24:36 PM »
http://www.theglobalistreport.com/australians-own-more-guns-after-gun-control-laws-enacted/

Not ideal, but good to see people arming themselves regardless.
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #61 on: February 12, 2013, 07:23:20 PM »
Pro 2nd Amendment article in the Wall Street Journal?? Say it ain't so...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323951904578290460073953432.html
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #62 on: March 15, 2013, 02:44:38 PM »
My group moved into the same building as the rest of our company's workers in this area.  While I was in our kitchen getting some coffee the other day, the TV was blaring CNN and the reporter was talking about some gun control topic.

The only other person in the kitchen, a large, middle aged black man, commented that new laws weren't going to do a damn thing because they only take guns from the folks who are following the law to begin with.  The criminals weren't going to be affected.  Yeah, we say it all the time here, but this was a total stranger talking to another total stranger in a white collar office building in liberal Northern VA. :D

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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #63 on: March 15, 2013, 04:22:52 PM »
My group moved into the same building as the rest of our company's workers in this area.  While I was in our kitchen getting some coffee the other day, the TV was blaring CNN and the reporter was talking about some gun control topic.

The only other person in the kitchen, a large, middle aged black man, commented that new laws weren't going to do a damn thing because they only take guns from the folks who are following the law to begin with.  The criminals weren't going to be affected.  Yeah, we say it all the time here, but this was a total stranger talking to another total stranger in a white collar office building in liberal Northern VA. :D

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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #64 on: April 05, 2013, 09:06:04 AM »
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #65 on: April 08, 2013, 08:50:25 PM »
Mitch McConnell joins the gun filibuster:

http://www.politico.com/story/2013/04/mitch-mcconnell-joins-senate-gun-filibuster-89773.html

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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #67 on: April 09, 2013, 09:25:16 PM »
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=CbnwA1v_5No#!

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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #68 on: April 10, 2013, 08:16:14 AM »
Wow, that was really good. Love the crack about "Mission Accomplished."  :lol:

Wish he would have given some explanation of how he thinks we should address the "culture of violence," though.
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #69 on: April 10, 2013, 11:49:22 PM »
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More than half of Colorado's elected sheriffs are planning to mount a legal challenge to the state's sweeping new gun restrictions.

The Denver Post reports that 37 of the state's 62 sheriffs will sue to overturn laws passed in March that set limits on ammunition magazines and expand background checks for firearms.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/04/10/colorado-sheriffs-plan-lawsuit-challenging-state-gun-control-laws/#ixzz2Q7hYs54g

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« Reply #70 on: April 21, 2013, 12:03:19 PM »
Woman with revolver successfully repels 4 home invaders.  And "they" wonder why we want more than 10 rounds.


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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #72 on: April 28, 2013, 08:54:22 AM »
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http://washingtonexaminer.com/five-sad-pictures-from-todays-anti-nra-march/article/2528129

The real sadness is that if gun owners were informed of the event ahead of time, the numbers could have doubled or tripled by people showing up to troll the event. :rofl:
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #73 on: May 21, 2013, 12:44:42 AM »
Awesome.
I have a yahoo email so when I go there to check it I scan the newsfeed. When the subject is guns I will read the article and then check the comments.

Every article I have checked has had most of the pro gun comments upvoted 8 or 10  or 12 or more to 1 over downvotes. Sometimes as high as 20-1.

Is Yahoo a particularly conservative/libertarianish site or is that the real ratio of viewpoints?

I know that almost anyone from almost any country can have a Yahoo account so I'm not sure that ratio holds perfectly for the US but it is very suggestive. And if that is an accurate representation of a large part of the world's populace than that means we have many allies out there.
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Re: Chin Up!
« Reply #74 on: May 24, 2013, 10:00:08 AM »
DA won't prosecute New York man found with 9-round assault pistol.

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