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on The Reality of Guns
@ Dan Loder: holow point bullets are also made to not go through anything but your target. so you dont hurt bystanders.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
we dont have to. but thanks.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
The % of guns entering Mexico from the north pales in comparison to the amount entering from the Mexican ports, and Guatemala. The Army like drug cartel wants fully automatic weapons like the military has. Those guns don’t come from the US. The only reason you have stats from the US is because we have gun registration. The stats say that 80 some % of the registered guns come from the US. They have no info from a gun coming from the south.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
The NRA teaches safety.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
thank you for allowing an intelligent person to break the ice on this topic.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
Steven Hayes, convicted of a brutal 2007 home invasion in which a Connecticut mother and her two daughters were killed, was sentenced Thursday to die for the crime.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
VANCOUVER -- A Gresham man was sentenced to what will amount to life in prison today for his role in a August 2005 Vancouver home invasion that left the homeowner seriously injured and his friend dead of gun shot wounds.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
TACOMA, Wash. - Three people have been charged and are in custody in connection with last week's home-invasion robbery in which an Edgewood father was killed.
The suspects are identified as Kiyoshi Alan Higashi, 22; Joshua Nathan Reese, 20; and Amanda Christine Knight, 21. They were arrested in Daly City, near San Francisco over the weekend.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
Oregon city: 32-year old Joseph Ryan Pankonin was killed last night in a home invasion robbery.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
Gun will beat baseball bat 99.99% of the time:
Steven Hayes, 47, and Joshua Komisarjevsky, 30, are accused of raping and murdering Mrs Hawke-Petit and killing daughters Hayley, 17, and 11-year-old Michaela in an attack in their Connecticut home in July 2007.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1312686/Too-late-Massacred-Connecticut-family-saved-Police-reacted-quicker-jury-told.html#ixzz1CiyjiEOH
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
This topic has a way of inciting anger. I try to understand both sides. I live in Portland, and day to day I don’t feel the need to carry. My brother and some friends are police officers and when we have two shootings in a month I understand the pain. But this right to bear arms is much deeper than playing dirty harry in the streets. It is as important as our freedom of speech, in fact the first amendment would not be possible without the second. Our forefathers valued this and I feel some of us that have never suffered may dwindle this liberty away. If we wish, or vote this right away we will never get it back. Put away your anger and Just try to philosophize this for one moment. Would the French revolution have happened if the American experiment didn’t work? Would England have become a democracy? Folks site Europe when talking gun control. Well I site the right to bear arms as fundamental in the creation of democracy. And it is fundamental to maintain democracy. I may be wrong, but what if I am right. Are you willing to gamble your freedom, or the freedom of your children? If our civilized country has a major economic, political or natural disaster, what’s in your closet? The USSR fell, and so can we. Liberals are educated folks. Does anybody know what kind of hell it was to live in Kazakhstan when the Soviet Union fell? A friend’s father worked for the government, militant groups were executing everybody from the government. This was a communist country, they were not supposed to have guns, but they did. I can site hundreds of other examples (Pol Pot, Hitler, Slobodan Milošević,) I think you get the point. This hasn’t happened in the US, because of Our Right to Bear Arms. Trust me, I don’t think it is fair for some psycho to take out a senator, a judge and a kid, but it pales in comparison to what could happen if free people can’t defend freedom. thanks
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
Folks think you are nuts when you use the constitution to defend you right to bear arms. The second amendment is short, to the point and cannot be legally challenged. I respect your right to free speech. Please respect my right to defend your rights. Also, please please please don’t infringe on my rights to defend myself and my family. The main argument I hear for gun control is “we don’t need guns we have the police”. Then why is the sheriff’s department the biggest publicly elected advocate for gun rights? They promote responsible, safe gun ownership and provide citizens with concealed carry permits because they are on the front line. Some hipster on Belmont hasn’t witnessed the aftermath of a violent rape and therefore does not understand. And god forbid, we live through a situation where law enforcement cannot protect us (like L.A. riots or hurricane Katrina). Thanks but no thanks. I will choose to protect myself. If police response time is more than 3 hours, how will you protect yourself? Gun control is not up for debate. If we make guns illegal than only people that don’t respect laws will have them! That is a simple and frightening concept. I want folks to read this so I won’t even go into the fact that the USA has never been invaded or overthrown???? Hello! It is in our blood to defend ourselves.
posted 2 years, 4 months ago
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on The Reality of Guns
I think we may have been separated at birth! I would like to second your comment. I am the same age and have the same background. Growing up with guns, I never had an unsettled curiosity for them. If I wanted to shoot, I would go with my father to the range. I never felt like I had to sneak them or show friends. If I did handle a firearm, it would never be pointed at anything I wasn’t willing to destroy.
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on Immigration Law
Has anybody here actualy read the Law? The showing of paperwork is only for lawfull trafic stops. and the documentation required is something that a leagle person is alredy required to have. There are prohibitions set into the law. Not to mention the fact that if you meet these standards "A PERSON IS PRESUMED TO NOT BE AN ALIEN WHO IS UNLAWFULLY PRESENT IN THE UNITED STATES IF THE PERSON PROVIDES TO THE LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER OR AGENCY ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: 1. A VALID ARIZONA DRIVER LICENSE. 2. A VALID ARIZONA NONOPERATING IDENTIFICATION LICENSE. 3. A VALID TRIBAL ENROLLMENT CARD OR OTHER FORM OF TRIBAL IDENTIFICATION."--which is a direct quote of the bill passed by Arizona--you are cannot be suspect. At a simple traffic stop what is the first question a police officer asks? License and registration. Provided you have that you have nothing to worry about.
posted 2 years, 12 months ago
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on Police Matters
It frightens me that you plant a seed of disrespect in your child’s head. Let your child grow up and make his own mind up based on his life experiences. If, confronted with a situation involving police your child is calm and communicative, thing will go fine. If, he is agitated, aggravated or disrespectful based on some sick ideological crap he learned from his momma, things will not go well and it will be a self fulfilling prophecy.
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on Police Matters
I am an Ex con, but that don’t define me. I have turned my life around and understand both sides of the coin. I have more respect for officers than most folks do. These men have an incredibly tough job. I know firsthand, that there are people in this world that would do thinks to you that you could never imagine. And police officers have to deal with these folks on a daily bases. It is easy to be a Monday morning Quarter-back. So what if he didn’t use the bean bag gun? They would have to possibly hyperextend her elbow joint to get her to submit or break her jaw with a 230lb knee ride. Possibly risk her reaching for a gun in the process. Would that be better than a bruise to the largest muscle in her body? Get real. Let’s let these men & women do their jobs. People need to learn not to resist. 12 years old is as good as any age to learn that.
posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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on Rx: Personal Values
Good point.
posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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on Rx: Personal Values
Thank you, my sister company is in Vancouver BC. My co workers there work, like I do 50 hrs a week Minimum some times as much as 100 hrs a week, yes a week. And if they go to see a doctor they have to wait in line for 6 hrs behind some single mom with 6 kids that does not work for a living. I don’t want to pay for others bad life choices. But the system does need to be reformed for efficiency.
posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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on Rx: Personal Values
Hey man, I was just being sarcastic. We put down thousands of sick and unwanted dogs & cats a month and it does not seem highly intellectual to me for you to use this as an example. But then again, I am not an intellectual, I work for a living.
posted 3 years, 10 months ago
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on Rx: Personal Values
So, folks that dont love what they do but do it becuase it is responsible should pay for your health care. is that what your saying?
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