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2007-05-08 Home Front: Politix

Massacre propels bill to OK guns in parks

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Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-05-08 12:24|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 UPDATE: Due to public and Advertiser pressure The Tennesean hast removed the list. If this happens in your state you can have an impact. Some damage may already have been done, tho.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2007-05-08 16:40|| 2007-05-08 16:40|| Front Page Top

#2 "I believe we have the right to bear arms and to protect ourselves, but I don't think you should be toting a gun around."

So, you're going to stay home all the time, and keep your teens there too? Cuz you can't protect yourself away from home with your gun without "toting it around."

If I didn't care about being charged with vandalism, I'd love to go around to all the schools in the area and paste a sign over their "gun-free zone" signs that read: "Legal gun-free zone; target-rich environment for criminals and losers with illegal guns. All the victims you could possibly want, concentrated for your convenience, Mr. Nutcase."

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-08 16:44|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-05-08 16:44|| Front Page Top

#3 #1 DB - remember the Roanoke (VA) paper pulling the same stunt a month or so ago?

What the hell is wrong with these people?

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-08 16:46|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-05-08 16:46|| Front Page Top

#4 Barb__ nothing "wrong" with them; they have their agenda and "outing" gun owners is an effective if scummy tactic. I certainly don't advertise the fact... if weapons are needed, I prefer my armament to be a surprise.

The correct response is in kind. In some link I read today, perhaps, via Instapundit, the recommendation was to publish the home addresses of all the management and reporters of the newspaper that put out the list. That should create some howls of hypocritical outrage.

Posted by Butch Glusonter1846 2007-05-08 17:30|| 2007-05-08 17:30|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 Butch - when the Roanoke paper pulled their similar stunt, Tim Blair (in Australia) responded in kind by posting the "reporter's" home addy, etc. (Ain't the Internet a hoot?)

Hilarity ensued. :-D

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2007-05-08 17:38|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2007-05-08 17:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Allowing concealed handgun permit holders to carry in public places is a good thing. The trick is to make sure that training academies that provide training adhere to the standards, as set in state law. Assume that in a mall, you have 2000 people shopping around. If 2% are legally carrying a handgun, that translates to 40 people, which will have a definite impact, literally and figuratively, on thugs.

Posted by Alaska Paul">Alaska Paul 2007-05-08 17:57|| 2007-05-08 17:57|| Front Page Top

#7 Statistics have shown that not only citizens less likely to shoot innocents than police, they fire less often and are far more likely to kill someone they do shoot at. So I'm not so sure that claiming those of us with permits aren't well trained to handle our weapons is very true.

Posted by Silentbrick">Silentbrick 2007-05-08 18:47|| 2007-05-08 18:47|| Front Page Top

#8 . if weapons are needed, I prefer my armament to be a surprise.

Hear, Hear, Second the motion, quietly until needed.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2007-05-08 19:51|| 2007-05-08 19:51|| Front Page Top

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