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bdh3
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Wife of Gun Control poster boy breaks anti-gun laws and buys a sniper rifle?
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Mar 23 05:37 UTC 2002 |
http://www.miami.com/mld/miami/news/politics/2909641.htm
If I am the main squeeze of a 'banger and buy him '9' is that ok?
Shades of Carle Rowe...
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bru
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response 1 of 33:
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Mar 23 06:00 UTC 2002 |
once again it shows that the laws are made to restrict the general public,
not meant to encroach on the rights of the rich and famous.
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tsty
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response 2 of 33:
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Mar 23 06:21 UTC 2002 |
gee, haven't heard much from Rowe lately ..... hmmmm
perhaps brady's kid is on a rifle team somewhere.
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mcnally
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response 3 of 33:
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Mar 23 23:17 UTC 2002 |
Who's Carle Rowe?
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other
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response 4 of 33:
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Mar 24 01:45 UTC 2002 |
You know, just because someone favors restrictive handgun laws, it does
not mean that they are entirely opposed to firearms. They are still a
subject of Olympic competition...
Of course, I don't pretend to know what Sarah Brady thinks, feels or
believes.
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polygon
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response 5 of 33:
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Mar 24 02:40 UTC 2002 |
Re 3. Carl T. Rowan was a syndicated columnist who got into trouble
for shooting an intruder in his backyard. No surprise that we haven't
heard from him in a while, since he's dead.
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mcnally
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response 6 of 33:
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Mar 24 04:34 UTC 2002 |
Ahh.. I remember Carl Rowan but didn't manage the translation from
tsty-speak..
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bdh3
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response 7 of 33:
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Mar 24 05:11 UTC 2002 |
Dude was big anti-gun writer for the paper. Shot an intruder in his
back yard with an illegal handgun or something like that.
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jazz
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response 8 of 33:
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Mar 24 14:32 UTC 2002 |
Kinda funny how that works.
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fitz
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response 9 of 33:
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Mar 24 16:08 UTC 2002 |
The gun Rowan had was unregistered. The intruder was a trespasser who was
using Rowan's pool in the middle of the night. Rowan had the gun just to
prevent the trespasser from hitting him, but the intruder continued to advance
on Rowan even after being warned that Rowen was armed.
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bdh3
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response 10 of 33:
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Mar 24 19:21 UTC 2002 |
Gosh, handguns *are* pretty handy for self defense.....too bad they
were outlawed where Rowan lived.
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oval
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response 11 of 33:
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Mar 24 22:54 UTC 2002 |
nighttime swimmers are very dangerous.
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other
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response 12 of 33:
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Mar 24 23:59 UTC 2002 |
I use to skinnydip in a municipal pool at night with friends.
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oval
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response 13 of 33:
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Mar 25 01:17 UTC 2002 |
heh yea we used to do that too..
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gelinas
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response 14 of 33:
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Mar 25 02:48 UTC 2002 |
Especially if you are sixty-something and they are twenty-something.
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danr
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response 15 of 33:
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Mar 25 05:21 UTC 2002 |
Rowan probably could have saved himself an awful lot of trouble if he'd
just called the police. And most gun-toting hombres would do well to
take that advice as well.
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jazz
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Mar 25 13:35 UTC 2002 |
It's awfully hard to argue "what if", though, in either case.
What does seem to save everyone a great deal of trouble is a strong
cradle to grave welfare program. Are we willing to do that?
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gull
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Mar 25 15:43 UTC 2002 |
Re #15: Yeah, that's what I don't get. If there was some weirdo trespassing
in your pool, why wouldn't you just lock the doors to the house and call the
police?
I'd suggest that that's exactly what he would have done, if he didn't have a
handgun making him feel like some kind of macho hero.
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tsty
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Mar 25 17:48 UTC 2002 |
re #5 - thankxx polygon - is he in your graveyard yet?
re #6 - yeh, somtimes the partials are difficuot to assemble, sorry
re #7 - that's how the story played out ... practice what i preach, not
what i really do.
back to the topic, uhhhh, identifying a 30.06 as a 'sniper rifle' is
just plain exaggeration - or, more likely, 'writers ignorance.' perhaps
the additino of a scope triggered (heh-heh) the writer's fingers too much.
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gull
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response 19 of 33:
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Mar 25 19:50 UTC 2002 |
Ya know, one car dearship near Houghton used to run a deal where if you
bought a new pickup truck, you were entered into a drawing to win a
30.06. At the time I thought it was the most redneck-targeted bit of
advertising I'd ever heard.
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scott
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response 20 of 33:
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Mar 25 19:57 UTC 2002 |
Question: will this incident be counted as a "defensive gun use" next time
somebody starts ranting about guns?
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gull
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response 21 of 33:
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Mar 25 21:07 UTC 2002 |
Probably.
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jazz
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response 22 of 33:
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Mar 26 00:34 UTC 2002 |
Thirty-oughts *were* used as sniper rifles in World War Two.
Labelling one so, though, is clearly spin doctoring, as would be saying a
Ford Ranger was a notorious dead body hauling vehicle.
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bdh3
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response 23 of 33:
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Mar 26 02:23 UTC 2002 |
Sorta like calling a semi-automatic single shot rifle like an SKS-74 an
'automatic assault rifle'?
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russ
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response 24 of 33:
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Mar 26 03:16 UTC 2002 |
I just went to the link today, and it appears to be broken;
there were all the frames and things but no article text.
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