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• • 12 Oct 07
  • 10:08 am

  Only statists could possibly get nostalgic over public school cafeteria food.

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• • 08 Oct 07
  • 11:13 am

  "wscott52, thank you for your kind advice, but my idea of education doesn’t include gun ownership, as it doesn’t include living in fear." So, what you're saying is that Olympic competitors who shoot Free Pistol live in fear? That Jerry Miculek, who is one of the fastest and most accurate pistol competitors alive lives in fear? That David Tubb, who designed and built the world's most accurate competitive rifle lives in fear? Matt Burkett, one of the top Multigun and IPSC competitors lives his life in fear? All of the nerdy engineers at places like Sierra all live in fear? What's …

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• • 10 Oct 07
  • 11:19 am

  "Should I apologize for that?" You could start by having an open mind. "Oh, right. Gun lovers are the victims of "simple" bigotry. My liberal heart bleeds for you, bro." Given the broad-based, close-minded and sometimes even downright hateful reactions I've received from leftists on the gun issue, yeah, I'd say they're pretty bigoted against gun owners. As I pointed out earlier in this thread, the percentage of guns that are misused in crime doesn't even amount to one-tenth of one-percent of all of the privately held guns in this country, yet people on your side of the aisle continually call …

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• • 10 Oct 07
  • 1:38 pm

  Excellent illustration of the myopia of the anti-rights crowd. Cheers, Captain Awesome

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• • 10 Oct 07
  • 5:09 pm

  Whoops, my bad. The percentage was 0.015354%, or closer to one-fiftieth, which is way smaller than one tenth. Geeze, you'd think you could have at least double-checked my math before going all schizoid. Regardless, perhaps you'd care to elaborate on why you think it's a good idea to punish 40,000,000 law-abiding gun owners because around 30,000 guns are misused. And if you do think it's a good idea, perhaps you can illuminate us on how you would go about executing such a plan. Bonus points if you can do it without references to how I'm just The Man out to hold …

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