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Friday, April 27. 2007

Need to get your adrenaline going?

Re gun control, read this at Confederate Yankee.

What makes it especially amusing is that it sounds like Gen. Petraeus' plan in Baghdad. 

I would be all in favor of rounding up every illegal gun in Boston (where I had an attempted mugging but ran faster than they did) and NYC (where I've been mugged, and also robbed twice). Both times by evil young crims with handguns of certainly doubtful legality.

Of course, knives would have worked almost as well, since my Kung Fu is a little rusty, and drug-crazed sociopathic teens make me deeply uneasy.

Sometime, when I feel like exposing the true depths of my stupidity, I'll post the story of how I gave the guy a subway token, two crumpled one dollar bills, and a pocketful of change, when I had a $1300 wad in my back pocket.

As I reflect back, maybe I need a whole post on my victimhood!!!

Posted by Bird Dog in Politics at 15:18 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Good plan he has there to get thousands of cops killed and start the next Civil War.
#1 NJSoldier on 2007-04-27 15:46 (Reply)
Why on earth were you carrying around 1300 cash, BD? I mean, you were brave if foolish to deny the bugger his drug money, but I don't know why one would carry around that much cash? Or we're you about to buy the freedom of some Chinatown slave, and are just too self-effacing to say so!
#2 retriever on 2007-04-27 16:35 (Reply)
Yes, I was on my way to the slave auction. I am a very old person.
#3 BD on 2007-04-27 16:38 (Reply)
BD,I meant one of those indentured sweat shop workers or one of those poor gnomes cooking those yummy Chinatown meals we all love, so cheap! You're old, yes, but not that old!
#4 retriever on 2007-04-27 16:59 (Reply)
I will do a post on my life with crime, one of these days.
#5 BD on 2007-04-27 18:00 (Reply)
You weren't downtown selling crack, wuz you?
#6 buddy larsen on 2007-04-27 18:22 (Reply)
Not. Will tell my stories next week.
#6.1 BD on 2007-04-27 18:49 (Reply)
Looking forward!
#7 Luther McLeod on 2007-04-28 00:29 (Reply)
Had it been a hundred plus years ago and you were walking down the sidewalk with a gunbelt and a Peacemaker in the holster, you'd've been mugger-proof. Of course, someone with a shotgun might've got you from ambuscade.
#8 buddy larsen on 2007-04-28 01:30 (Reply)

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