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August 17, 2012, 01:26 PM
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Pro-gun rally in DC
Here's an encouraging sign, young people willing to protest in DC for the right to carry...
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/...-dc-city-hall/
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My guns include S&W and Colt revolvers, Colt and Ruger pistols, Remington 870 shotgun, Henry and Marlin .22LR rifles, Hi-Point 9mm carbine and Lancaster Arms AK. I reload handgun rounds with a Lee hand press, over 18K rounds since Nov. 2009 with nary a squib nor kaboom. 
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August 17, 2012, 03:17 PM
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Wow I didn't know DC was on track to have the lowest homicide rate in 40 years! I guess all of the reported crime in DC is just a conspiracy!
I'm glad to see my generation getting involved in demonstrations like this, even if they are small scale.
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Segui il tuo corso e lascia dir le genti - Dante Blaming guns for crime is like blaming the planes for 9/11 |
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August 17, 2012, 04:02 PM
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His assertion that “States with the lax gun laws and higher gun ownership rates have the highest per capita number of gun related deaths." is simply a fallacy wrapped in a fantasy.
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Gun Control: The premise that a woman found in an alley, raped and strangled with her own pantyhose, is morally superior to allowing that same woman to defend her life with a firearm. "Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." - Jules Henri Poincare "Three thousand people died on Sept. 11 because eight pilots were killed" -- former Northwest Airlines pilot Stephen Luckey |
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August 17, 2012, 04:59 PM
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