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marens Apprentice


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:08 pm Post subject: [LOLGUNS] 5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows |
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5 People Shot At 3 Different Gun Shows On Gun Appreciation Day
If the gun advocates behind this year’s inaugural Gun Appreciation Day had hoped to use the day’s festivities to build support for their anti-regulation platform, they are going to have to wait another year.
Emergency personnel had to be called to the scene of the Dixie Gun and Knife Show in Raleigh, North Carolina after a gun accidentally discharged and shot two people at the show’s safety check-in booth just after 1 pm. Both victims were transported to an area hospital, and the Raleigh Fire Department announced that the show would be closed for the rest of the day.
Gun Appreciation Day is the combined effort of dozens of far-right organizations who have been vocal opponents of gun control advocates’ efforts to reduce the number of dangerous weapons on our streets and prevent them from ending up in the hands of people with criminal backgrounds or a history of mental illness. In response to a renewed push for sensible reforms of gun laws after the tragedy in Newtown, Connecticut, groups like the National Rifle Association and the founders of Gun Appreciation Day have instead advocated for an increase in the number of guns in public places like elementary schools, arguing — falsely — that more guns will mean more protection for individuals.
But today’s unfortunate accident, which took place at a safety check in surrounded by hundreds of people who presumably have at least some training on how to properly handle a dangerous weapon, undermines that case. Earlier this week, an armed security officer at a Michigan charter school accidentally left his gun in a restroom that is regularly used by students as young as five years old.
A representative from Political Media, the group responsible for organizing Gun Appreciation Day, was not immediately available for comment.
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/01/19/1473881/two-people-accidentally-shot-at-a-gun-show-safety-checkpoint-on-gun-appreciation-day/?mobile=nc
Could be an article from the onion, though. _________________ If English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for you! |
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McGruff Tux's lil' helper


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:43 pm Post subject: |
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Sometimes ROFLMAO just isn't enough to express what you're really feeling. |
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sikpuppy n00b


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:00 pm Post subject: |
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Should be renamed "Bullet Acceptance Day". |
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Old School Apprentice


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Meanwhile in Chicago, a handful of teenage black kids are shot dead by other teenage black kids with handguns. _________________ The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
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sikpuppy n00b


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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Old School wrote: | Meanwhile in Chicago, a handful of teenage black kids are shot dead by other teenage black kids with handguns. |
Was that accidental too? Man, you guys are clumsy when you are handling your guns. |
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marens Apprentice


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:23 pm Post subject: |
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Old School wrote: | Meanwhile in Chicago, a handful of teenage black kids are shot dead by other teenage black kids with handguns. |
Problem can probably be solved by using more and bigger guns. _________________ If English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for you! |
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sikpuppy n00b


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:35 pm Post subject: |
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They used to have these enormous impact sprinklers here, for irrigating grass verges near main roads. As kids we used to shoot them at each other on hot days until chased off by council rangers. Is that what it's like to have guns as kids? |
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pjp Administrator


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 5:56 pm Post subject: |
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lolgov. 'cause where we're going, you don't need civil liberties. _________________ I can saw a woman in two, but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.
For my next trick, I'll need a volunteer. |
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wildhorse Tux's lil' helper


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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The NRA (USA) should open throughout the USA lots of shooting ranges for kids, operated by kids. No adults admitted, because of likely paedophile infiltration. |
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wswartzendruber Veteran


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:31 pm Post subject: |
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First, let's start with a less-biased news source: CNN Article
Second, let's not laugh at the gun, let's laugh at the person controlling it. You can't fix stupid. And to be honest, when you have this many gun shows at once, you're going to have accidents.
Third, twenty-seven people died yesterday in the U.S. from alcohol-related car accidents. I still say it's more efficient to ban booze. |
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pjp Administrator


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:33 pm Post subject: |
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wswartzendruber wrote: | when you have this many gun shows at once, you're going to have accidents. | We (CO) seem to have them weekly and I haven't heard of any problems. _________________ I can saw a woman in two, but you won't want to look in the box when I'm through.
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McGruff Tux's lil' helper


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 6:36 pm Post subject: |
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Quote: | I still say it's more efficient to ban booze |
So your argument is that we're not allowed to look at gun control until we discover the secret of immortality and conquer death?
Have to do better than that. |
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wildhorse Tux's lil' helper


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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big dave n00b

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:18 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299782
24 dead, 87 dead the day before at a university. no guns involved. where's the outcry?
you don't care about people dying, or you would be pissed that over 100 people died within the last week from attacks. so why are you complaining about guns, again? |
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marens Apprentice


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:41 pm Post subject: |
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wswartzendruber wrote: | First, let's start with a less-biased news source: CNN Article
Second, let's not laugh at the gun, let's laugh at the person controlling it. You can't fix stupid. And to be honest, when you have this many gun shows at once, you're going to have accidents.
Third, twenty-seven people died yesterday in the U.S. from alcohol-related car accidents. I still say it's more efficient to ban booze. |
http://imgur.com/eO6PkUK Soon! _________________ If English was good enough for Jesus, then it's good enough for you! |
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juniper l33t


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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wswartzendruber wrote: | First, let's start with a less-biased news source: CNN Article
Second, let's not laugh at the gun, let's laugh at the person controlling it. You can't fix stupid. And to be honest, when you have this many gun shows at once, you're going to have accidents.
Third, twenty-seven people died yesterday in the U.S. from alcohol-related car accidents. I still say it's more efficient to ban booze. |
boozing isn't the problem. boozing and driving is. I am all for laws preventing the mixing of the two. |
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McGruff Tux's lil' helper


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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big dave wrote: | http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299782
24 dead, 87 dead the day before at a university. no guns involved. where's the outcry?
you don't care about people dying, or you would be pissed that over 100 people died within the last week from attacks. so why are you complaining about guns, again? |
Another one who seems to think we have to conquer all other forms of death before we're allowed to talk about deaths by shooting.
PS: we don't. |
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juniper l33t


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 8:47 pm Post subject: |
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big dave wrote: | http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299782
24 dead, 87 dead the day before at a university. no guns involved. where's the outcry?
you don't care about people dying, or you would be pissed that over 100 people died within the last week from attacks. so why are you complaining about guns, again? |
its a tragedy. Not sure where you are going with that. |
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Old School Apprentice


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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mcgruff wrote: | Quote: | I still say it's more efficient to ban booze |
So your argument is that we're not allowed to look at gun control until we discover the secret of immortality and conquer death?
Have to do better than that. |
Man, I sure have missed your strawman responses!
Good to have you back. _________________ The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
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Naib Watchman


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big dave n00b

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:33 pm Post subject: |
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mcgruff wrote: | big dave wrote: | http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299782
24 dead, 87 dead the day before at a university. no guns involved. where's the outcry?
you don't care about people dying, or you would be pissed that over 100 people died within the last week from attacks. so why are you complaining about guns, again? |
Another one who seems to think we have to conquer all other forms of death before we're allowed to talk about deaths by shooting.
PS: we don't. |
the point is that you're trying to trample my rights. you're trying to fill a slow leak, when there's a gaping flood occurring elsewhere.
even worse, gun control is racist. all supporters of gun control are racist. you are a racist. it's insulting. |
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Old School Apprentice


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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 10:53 pm Post subject: |
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big dave wrote: | mcgruff wrote: | big dave wrote: | http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299782
24 dead, 87 dead the day before at a university. no guns involved. where's the outcry?
you don't care about people dying, or you would be pissed that over 100 people died within the last week from attacks. so why are you complaining about guns, again? |
Another one who seems to think we have to conquer all other forms of death before we're allowed to talk about deaths by shooting.
PS: we don't. |
the point is that you're trying to trample my rights. you're trying to fill a slow leak, when there's a gaping flood occurring elsewhere.
even worse, gun control is racist. all supporters of gun control are racist. you are a racist. it's insulting. |
As shown here _________________ The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it.
George Orwell
It just keeps getting better |
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big dave n00b

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Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 11:07 pm Post subject: |
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Old School wrote: | big dave wrote: | mcgruff wrote: | big dave wrote: | http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=299782
24 dead, 87 dead the day before at a university. no guns involved. where's the outcry?
you don't care about people dying, or you would be pissed that over 100 people died within the last week from attacks. so why are you complaining about guns, again? |
Another one who seems to think we have to conquer all other forms of death before we're allowed to talk about deaths by shooting.
PS: we don't. |
the point is that you're trying to trample my rights. you're trying to fill a slow leak, when there's a gaping flood occurring elsewhere.
even worse, gun control is racist. all supporters of gun control are racist. you are a racist. it's insulting. |
As shown here |
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deacons_for_Defense_and_Justice
http://pjmedia.com/blog/gun-control-fails-say-statistics-from-gun-control-advocates/ |
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wswartzendruber Veteran


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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:32 am Post subject: |
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mcgruff wrote: | So your argument is that we're not allowed to look at gun control until we discover the secret of immortality and conquer death? |
Your brain appears to be suffering from some sort of textual parsing issue. |
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McGruff Tux's lil' helper


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Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 2:38 am Post subject: |
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So what was your point? |
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