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Tuesday, August 12. 2014

"No one in their right mind wants to carry a loaded firearm in public or have one around the house."

No one at all, other than me and my friends, many security guards, bodyguards, police, residents of Washington DC, Brinks drivers, rural folks, minimart workers, border guards, the secret service, responsible homeowners, pilots, etc etc. Plus some bad guys too.


I'd bet the Mayor's driver was armed, too. Urban Mayors are commonly driven around by police officers. It's a perq.

Posted by The News Junkie in Hot News & Misc. Short Subjects, Our Essays at 12:49 | Comments (6) | Trackbacks (0)

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One place where you must go armed to the teeth - your local dance club.
#1 Colorado on 2014-08-12 13:35 (Reply)
Guess I'm not in my right mind. Ol' Dave must live on a different planet than the one I'm on. Oh, that's right! Madison is a different planet.

I am paranoid--when I'm in Atlanta without a firearm. Now, that's a different planet as well. You can get your arse killed in the ATL.
#2 tennesseered on 2014-08-12 14:13 (Reply)
"Oh, that's right! Madison is a different planet."

Yes. Yes it is.

Just FYI, that's coming from someone living less than an hour away by car during rush hour.

Living halfway in between Madison and Milwaukee is an educational experience in the limits of credulity.
#3 guy on 2014-08-12 18:40 (Reply)
It's quotes like this that make me realize that there is a whole bunch of people out there, whom I've never met, who clearly don't understand me, don't like me, and are trying to do horrible things to me.

And they wonder why I don't consider them to be fellow citizens anymore, never give them the benefit of the doubt, consider them to be evil in every sense of the word, and wouldn't lift a finger to help them (as a friend of mine used to say, he wouldn't piss on them if they were on fire).
#4 ruralcounsel on 2014-08-12 19:15 (Reply)
The comment is another giveaway that their issue is with "the kind of people" their opponents are, rather than a discussion of the issues, facts, data, first principles, the Constitution, etc.

Hold that thought: liberalism is a social, rather than logical approach. It is spread by social enforcement of "who are the best people, and what have they decided is best?" The oddity is that these are people who are fully capable of reasoning in many other fields. Yet somehow, the question of whether their views are those of the smart set dominates.

It is an intellectual laziness. Sizing up what smart people think is an effective shortcut for getting by in life that works 80% of the time. Depending on it 100% of the time is fanaticism.
#5 Assistant Village Idiot (Link) on 2014-08-12 23:40 (Reply)
There's always a loaded shotgun by our bed. Am I crazy?
#6 Texan99 on 2014-08-12 23:41 (Reply)

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